ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

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Normal, IL Feb., 2018 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE: THE STORY SO FAR 1

CHAPTER TWO: THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF EDEN. 10

CHAPTER THREE: ADAM: THE GIANT FARMER 29

CHAPTER FOUR; CAIN AND ABEL 47

CHAPTERFIVE: CAINANDSETH 67

CHAPTER SIX: NEPHILIM AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN 77

CHAPTER SEVEN: CLEANSING THE EARTH 95 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN PREFACE

This is a continuation of my studies in genesis in which I study what happened to Adam and Eve after they have been thrown out of Eden because they did not obey the one commandment as children given by God the Father. Thus in order that they may not remain as eternal demons with a selfish , God send them out clothed in skin and to live of their own using their brains and learning to live. Since outside of Eden, the law of entropy was the default law, they are no susceptible to death. God had his plan of redemption without violating the freedom of any of his children. Until all creation is redeemed, since creation is always part of God himself with whole universe within God as the only reality is God, God himself will be in torment and pain. Yet that is what having children mean - even on earth.

Adam carried the selfish ego DNA as a Son of God went out into the world outside of Eden, with the only profession he knew as an Agriculturalist. The rest of the earth was filled with hunter gatherers and nomads. Thus started the conflict. An egocentric farmer with their settled life opposed to the tribal centered nomads.

Adam's eldest son turned into a farmer and his younger son turned into a nomadic cattle breeder. In their conflict Cain the eldest killed Abel the younger. God turned out Cain who had to become the nomad in the country of Nod. Instead of Cain another son was born to Adam - Seth who became the new starting point of earthian life of Adamsons.

The long life time of 1000 was too long and the earth was populated heavily and "every imagination of man became evil. YHVH had no other option than to restart his earthly children. To make matters worse, the Sons of God instead remaining within the heavenly realms came down and started to marry women producing giants.

God thus terminated all life on earth with a flood that covered the whole earth, keeping Noah's family and a few other life forms to start the earth with the new having a shorter life time of around 100 years. Thus all the humans today are the descendants of Noah. They still carry the fallen DNA of Adam and the DNA of the alien Sons of God.

Prof.M.M.Ninan Normal, IL

Feb. 2018 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF. M. M. NINAN CHAPTER ONE THE STORY SO FAR

God created a beautiful garden in a place called Eden. In this garden, he put trees, plants, lakes, and . Flowing from Eden was a river that split into four separate rivers – Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden and instructed him to care for it. There are two possible answers to who this "the Adam" - (ha Adam) - might be. One solution will be that YHVH of Elohim fashioned this Adam from the dust of the earth and blew into him breath of life. Breath was the Holy Spirit impartation. It is the Spirit that give life. The other is that YHVH of Elohim took one of humans who were created by Elohim and gave him a new spirit and soul and put him in the Garden of Eden. This is the new fashioned ha-Adam."So, perhaps this is what happened: a few thousand years ago, God picked a literal individual, Adam, and ‘cloned’ a wife for him to start a perfect and eternal race of humans. God secluded them from all harm and bad influences in Eden, and gave them life-extending food." "(https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2014/October-2014/Life-before-Adam Dr David Instone-Brewer senior research fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge. )

He asked Adam to watch over and give names to all of the animals. (Some consider Adam as a giant servant made by YHVH of Elohim for tilling and keeping his Garden. Others including Islam considers Adam as Co-Regent of God on earth.) In the middle of the garden, there were two trees. One was called the Tree of Life and another was called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve could eat fruit from any of the trees in the Garden except the fruit on the Tree of Knowledge. He was specifically told that "On that day he eats of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge he will "surely die" - or "dying he will surely die."" Adam was alone for a while when God realized that he needed some companionship. So God put Adam to sleep and took a rib from his body out of which He created a woman whom Adam gave the name Eve. As far as Adam knew, he and his wife 1 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN were alone in a Garden. He never knew anything about the existence of a world outside of Eden. He probably had no idea of an earth or heaven. All that we know is that the Garden was a gated community. YHVH came down almost everyday and walked with his special children Adam and Eve.

According the Jewish tradition they were clothed in brightness - glory or shekina. Ephraem (4th century Syrian theologian) says: "It is because of the glory with which they were clothed that they were not ashamed. When it was taken away from them—after they had violated the commandment—they were indeed ashamed, because they were now really naked (Commentary on Genesis, 2:14).

Haggadah,describes Adam as follows: He was "like one of the angels" (Slavonic Book of Enoch, xxx. 11; compare Christian Book of Adam, i. 10; also Papias in Gen. R. xxi.; Pirḳe R. El. xii.; Ex. R. xxxii.; Targ. Yer. Gen. iii. 22). "His body reached from earth to heaven [or from one end of the world to the other] before sin caused him to shrink" (Ḥag. 12a, Sanh. 38b; compare also Philo, "Creation of the World," ed. Mangey, i. 33, 47). "He was of extreme beauty and sunlike brightness" (B. B. 58a). "His skin was a bright garment, shining like his nails; when he sinned this brightness vanished, and he appeared naked" (Targ. Yer. Gen. iii. 7; Gen. R. xi.; Adam and Eve, xxxvii.). http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/758-adam Ḥamzah al-Ispahani (Arab writer) says that a Jewish rabbi in Bagdad, Zedekiah by name, told him, among other things, "that Adam was created in the third hour of the sixth day, and Eve in the sixth hour;

2 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN that they were made to dwell in Gan-Eden , from which they were expelled after the ninth hour; that God sent an angel to them, who taught Adam how to sow and to perform all the other work connected with agriculture. The same angel instructed Eve how to perform all manner of household duties."

The historians Tabari, Masudi, Al-Athir, etc., have evidently culled from similar sources. They tell us that: "when God wished to form Adam He sent first Gabriel, then Michael, to fetch soil for that purpose. The earth, however, refused to give the soil, and yielded only to the Angel of Death, who brought three kinds of soil, black, white, and red. Adam's descendants, therefore, belong either to the white, the black, or the red race." "The soul of Adam had been created thousands of years previously, and at first refused to enter the body of clay. God forced it violently through Adam's nose, which caused him to sneeze. As it descended into his mouth, he commenced to utter the praises of God. He tried to rise; but the soul had not yet descended into his feet. When he did stand upright, he reached from earth up to the throne of God, and had to shade his eyes with his hand because of the brilliancy of God's throne. His height was gradually diminished, partly as a punishment for his sin, and partly through grieving at the death of Abel."

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Adam the Giant Man was reduced gradually in his stature after the fall

I normally interpret this in terms of dimensions. When God created Adam, he was in all four dimensions - physical, mental, spiritual and divine - in the image of Adam Kadamon. After the fall he was thrown out of the Garden of Eden so that he may not eat of the Tree of Life.This is image when God reduced his dimension. He now cannot enter the Divine.

4 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN THE SERPENT TRICKS ADAM AND EVE

In the Garden of Eden was a serpent.. The serpent asked Eve, “Did God really tell you not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge?”. The serpent told Eve, “You surely will not die. God just doesn’t want you to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge because he knows if you do, your eyes will be opened and you will understand the difference between good and evil. Eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge will make you just like him.” He probably ate of the fruit of the Tree of knowledge and showed Eve that he did not die. The serpent succeeded in tricking the Eve. She ate fruit from the forbidden tree and shared it with her husband..

Adam and Eve knew that they had made a big mistake. They heard God walking through the Garden of Eden. So they hid. God called out to them. God knew that if they were to continue inside Eden with an ego-centric haRa nature. If with their new Demonic nature they eat of the tree of life and they will be suffering eternally as the spiritual Demons were doing now and much more since Adam and Eve were both physical and spiritual beings. Being His own Children he wanted to avoid that. God has his own plans of redemption. He then clothed them with skins of animals and send them out into the whole wide world outside of Eden. He put a guard outside the gates of Eden, lest they return and eat of the tree of life and live a eternal life as demons fixed on selfish ends in misery. It was love that made YHVH to close down the garden.

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How long Adam and Eve stayed in the garden is not mentioned anywhere. But the jewish Rabbi's has their answers. Some leave them there for several years, others for a few days, others for only a few hours. http://www.creationmoments.com/content/how-long-were-adam-and-eve-garden-eden The Book of Jubilees was written in the second century BC and claims that Adam and Eve were created as 12 years of age and was in the Garden for seven years [pp. 46-48]. So Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden around 19 years of age. From the record in Genesis chapter five, we can deduce that the average longevity of the fathers was 907 years, while the average age of the father for his first son was 117 years. The Book of Jubilees maintains that Eve was aged between 64 and 70 years when she gave birth to Cain, her first child [p. 51].

Book of Genesis is telling us that not only did people lived much longer in pre-flood world but they also matured much later. So they were just babies growing into puberty when they were thrown out. Probably a reflection of the plan of God for all freewilled beings. "Therefore a man will leave his Father and Mother and will join with his wife." Free willed people have their own life in their own hands and decides their own lives with all its consequences. Father has his own plans about them too. 6 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

Physical size of Adam and Eve

As regards to the physical size of Adam and Eve, the Bible do not specify. However extra-biblical reference by several sects seems to indicate that his size was very large compared to the humans outside.

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Thus Ellen White of Seventh Day Adventist states that: "Adam’s height was much greater than that of men who now inhabit the earth. Eve was somewhat less in stature" -- Patriarchs and Prophets, pg. 45 "He (Adam) was more than twice as tall as men now living upon the earth. ... Eve was not quite as tall as Adam. Her head reached a little above his shoulders." -- Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, pg. 34 "Adam’s height was much greater than that of men who now inhabit the earth. Eve was somewhat less in stature" -- Patriarchs and Prophets, pg. 45 "He (Adam) was more than twice as tall as men now living upon the earth. ... Eve was not quite as tall as Adam. Her head reached a little above his shoulders." -- Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, pg. 34

Islam comes out with number. according to Abu Huraira as the Prophet Mohamed saying: "Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His own image with His length of sixty cubits,( that is 90 feet) and as He created him He told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, …….. So he who would get into Paradise would get in the form of Adam, his length being sixty cubits, then the people who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day. (Translation of Sahih Muslim, Book 040, Number 6809)"

Hamdan, a Saudi with the help of 4 taylors created a dress for Adam based on the 90 feet calculation.

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http://daatemet.org.il/en/daily-peppers/how-tall-was-adam/ One of the sages, Rabbi Elazar, argued that God created Adam so tall that when he stood his feet were upon the ground and his head reached the skies. How did this sage know the height of Adam? He learned of Adam’s height from the implications of this verse: “From the day that God created Adam on the earth and to the edges of heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:32) implies that Adam stood on the earth and his head reached the edge of heaven.

A different sage, Rav Judah, estimated Adam’s height — when Adam rested upon the earth his feet touched the dome of the heavens in the east and his head touched it on the west. (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chagigah 12a)

The Talmud mentions that some rabbis had reported Adam’s size as reaching the skies, with it having been reduced after his original sin. It was sometimes said that his size was reduced by 1000 cubits.

At any rate with a longevity of about a 1000 years and consuming the nourishment of the divine garden, we would expect Adam and Eve to be certainly far bigger to the point of Giant figure as they appeared to the puny outside children of men.

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CHAPTER TWO THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF EDEN.

Adam and Eve had never been outside their garden. We do not know that whether they even knew of other humans who lived outside. Some think that these outside humans were probably employed by Adam for the labor inside the garden. There are some who believe that the serpent was just one of these humans.

SONS OF MAN But these humans who lived outside of the Eden who are the sons of man were created by the Elohim (God and His Group: on Genesis day 6) in their image as many groups both male and female, long before the creation of the Adam and his wife Eve (by YHVH.) They were not given the breath of Holy Spirit. They were created like other creations just by the Word alone.

Gen 1:26-30 And Elohim said, Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Please see my study on Two Adams)

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree

10 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. Genesis 1:27 briefly states concerning this creation of HUMANKIND 'male and female He [God] created them,' In the image of Elohim they created man all over the earth as both male and female.

The size of the children of men from the table below created by the scientists from fossil records through long history of earth shows the they were less than 200 pounds, with a height of less than 6 feet. This is more or less the height and weight of humans of today.

Apart from this short description of the humankind spread all over earth ( Eden was not created then) we have little or no scriptural reference regarding them. The Bible do not give their history. The rest of the history is those of the Adam of YHVH.

We get details of existence of humans from the scientists based on the fossil records and scientific method of determination of the date of their existence. There are many Christians in order to negate any such humanoids on earth refuse to accept the conclusions challenging the dating methods and accuracy of dating. However high the percentage of inaccuracy may be, their existence cannot be denied and the dates can never come down to 6000 years. In fact by making the (JEPD) Documentation Hypothesis as valid explanation for identifying the two creations as one creation- (One expanding the other to give details), we are actually negating the validity of the inspiration and revelation of scripture. These present more hermeneutic problem. There are more divergence in the interpretation of scripture which makes it far more unreliable than the scientific inaccuracies of measurements.

(One such disturbing reality I faced was the explanation of the fall of Satan and the Gap Theory which were taught to us when we were growing up. Today apparently whenever the Gap Theory is mentioned it is followed immediately by a phrase - now debunked theory. Even though the scripture did not change. Its interpretation did change to a diametrically opposite meaning. If that is the situation, what makes the scripture and science any different from each other? http://www.icr.org/article/why-gap-theory-wont-work/)

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The fossil records of mankind all over the earth still proclaim their presence even if we contest the dates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Homo gives the following list given in the next page. In https://owlcation.com 'Adam Was Not the First Human, for the Bible Tells Us So' by Jeremy Christian says: "The study of involves many scientific disciplines, including physical anthropology, primatology, , , neurobiology, ethology, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, embryology and genetics. Genetic studies show that diverged from other about 85 million years ago, in the Late period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago."

As long as the observational data do not show dimensions of existence all these creations are taken by the scientists as one ongoing process. Since the scientists cannot have any means of measurement in the spiritual realms they see evolution rather than creation whenever spiritual dimensional change occurs. They see no difference between life of an and the life of man. Thus they trace the changes in life complexities. Within the Hominoidea (apes) superfamily, the family diverged from the Hylobatidae (gibbon) family some 15–20 million years ago. African great apes (subfamily ) diverged from orangutans (Ponginae) about 14 million years ago, the tribe (humans, and other extinct biped genera, and chimpanzee) parted from the Gorillini tribe (gorillas) between 9 million years ago and 8 million years ago; and, in turn, the subtribes Hominina (humans and biped ancestors) and Panina (chimps) separated about 7.5 million years ago to 5.6 million years ago. Remember when Adam was created he was placed with other animals and they were his family. He even named them.

Were these men different from other animal . Did they have souls? Is there any means of measuring these?

12 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN THE EVANGELICAL PROBLEM OF REDEMPTION OF NON-ADAMIC BEINGS.

In proposing the existence of pre-adamic race all around the world many evangelicals find a problem in the redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus.

"The most important aspect of the topic is this: If we cannot defend the fact that all humans can trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve, then the whole gospel message has problems.

When the first man, Adam, sinned, he forfeited his right to live with a holy God. God, Who is infinitely just, had to judge this rebellion with death. Adam and all of his descendants would have been alienated from God forever. However, God, in His infinite mercy, provided a means of deliverance from sin and its final effect of eternal separation from the Creator God.

In Hebrews 9:22, we learn that 'without shedding of blood there is no remission.' God required the shedding of blood for remission of sin. But, as Adam, the federal (representative) head of the human race brought sin and thus death into the world, another man (another representative, without sin, but also a member of the human race) was required to pay the penalty for sin - the penalty of death. The evident teaching of the Bible is that the atoning death of Christ was 'for the sins of the whole world' ( 1 John 2:2). In fact, Paul even goes as far as saying that the whole creation will be redeemed through Christ.

Romans 8:19The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.…

The error in the interpretation is because of the interpretation of this verse which says: 'by one man sin entered into the world' that death came into the world and then 'passed upon all men' (Romans 5:12). This is usually interpreted to mean that death come into the universe because of the trespasses of Adam and Eve. Was there death before Adam? https://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/sin.htm gives this explanation 13 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

"I believe that the punishment of death in Genesis three was spiritual. They died spiritually. They were separated from God. Adam and Eve did not physically die immediately, but lived for many years. Adam lived 930 years and had sons and daughters (Genesis 5:3-5). Romans 5:12 says, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned" (KJV). The "death" in this verse passed upon all men, not all plants, not all animals, for all have sinned. Have the plants sinned, have the animals sinned? No! They all refers to all men who have sinned. ……

Adam and Eve ate plants for food. Eating plants kills them. Some animals only live for a few hours and die. So there was death of plants and animals before Adam sinned. All agree that Satan sinned before Adam fell. Some say that Satan took a third of the angels from heaven in rebellion against God. What effect did Satan's fall have on creation? Freewill is an inherent part of Sonship. Hence all sons of God may sin even in the midst of their glory.

Some say that the world started to decay when Adam fell (sinned). They see the 2nd law of thermodynamics starting with Adam's fall. The sun was created on the fourth day. The sun burns energy which involves the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The sun can not burn without the 2nd law of thermodynamics. So the 2nd law of thermodynamics did not start when Adam fell. In an isolated system because of this law everything should come to an end.

Again we have the creation of finite beings where life depends on life death is a default situation. Even in the garden of Eden, they lived on eating vegetable for sustenance - means to avoid death. The fruit of the tree of life alone connected life being with an infinite source of energy where food become irrelevant and the second law of thermodynamics of decay and death can be reversed into glory and greater glory. Did they have to eat from the Tree of Life everyday or just once to have immortality?

Thus in Adam's life what God did was to drive him out so that he cannot get to the Tree of Life. Thus having sent out he fell under the same law of death as all those beings whether human or animal or vegetable. Thus death was not introduced by Adam into the world outside of him. Adamic race was subjected to death, like all the rest of creation, because of Adam's sin. Death became part of Adamic race because God threw Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, into the world outside.

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Apart from that, the sinful nature of selfishness of Adam and Eve was transmitted to all the progeny of them.

Thus the idea that there were 'preAdamite men' or other human-like creatures in the world unaffected by Adam's sin has nothing to do with the law of sin and death. Outside world was already under it. Now Adam joins them. He has no advantage over the other life forms. Jesus the Tree of Life offers salvation not only to Adamic progenies but to the whole creation.

If there was a pre-Adamic mankind anywhere God is their father too, God is their creator along with whole cosmos and it will continue to pain God if any part of it still remain unredeemed.

It has been the attitude of all major religions including and now the Christians to imagine that God is only their God and he does not care about others. It has emerged from the concept of a tribal God.

Appendix

Earliest Ever Sapiens Discovered in Forces Major Rethink of Human Evolution http://www.newsweek.com/human-evolution-homo-sapiens-earliest-fossils-morocco-622544 https://www.utahpeoplespost.com/2017/04/earliest-humans-in-us/

By Hannah Osborne On 6/7/17 at 1:14 PM

The near-complete adult discovered at the site of : Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig 15 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

The earliest Homo sapiens fossils ever found have been unearthed at a site in Morocco, in northwest Africa—far away from the “cradle of humanity” of southern and East Africa we tend to associate with the birthplace of our species. At the site of Jebel Irhoud, researchers discovered the fossil remains of five individuals dating back 300,000 years. They were found alongside stone tools, animal bones and charcoal, indicating the controlled use of fire. This discovery pushes back the oldest fossil evidence of our humanid species by 100,000 years—the previous oldest Homo sapiens remains came from Omo Kibish, in Ethiopia, and date to 195,000 years ago.

A new discovery claims that the earliest humans may have arrived in the U.S. 130,000 years ago. Using the most up to date evidence they had, the vast majority of the archaeological world believed that earliest humans arrived on the American continent from Asia about 25,000 years ago. They achieved this through glacially made land bridges or by boats along the shorelines. Maybe even by both.

Earliest Humans In the 100,000 Years Earlier than Believed But now, a brand new discovery could rock that entire paradigm. I could do so as it reportedly found evidence of human activity in the Americas over 100,000 years earlier. More exactly, some 130,000 years ago.

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Bones and tools found in California may be proof that humans roamed North America long before anyone ever thought they did. Doctor Thomas Deméré, curator of paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum, led the team as they examined material from the Cerutti Site in Southern California.The researchers found round stones with marks corresponding to being used to strike other objects. These were found alongside the bones of a mastodon, an extinct relative of the . The bones next to the tools were found to have spiral fracturing. This is something common in bones only when they are fresh.

There were also the classic signs of bones smashed by objects similar in size and shape to the stones. These pieces of evidence appeared together in a significant fossil find. They also led the researchers to believe it to be an example of human activity.

The bones, however, are beyond the limits of radiocarbon dating. Dr. Deméré instead used a technique known as uranium-thorium dating. Based on it, he and his team came up with the bones’ astounding age of 130,000 years.

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This was long before Adam was formed and placed in the Garden of Eden which was hardly 6000 years ago. By that time the sons of Men covered all of earth according to the scientific dating.

We now know that by 10,000 BC homo sapiens had already populated the planet and had over the course of many generations established themselves as the dominant species in the animal kingdom, which is exactly what the humans created in Genesis 1 were commanded to do:

Genesis 1:28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

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Comparative table of Homo species: Sons of Men Species Temporal Habitat Adult Adult Cranial Fossil Discovery range kya height mass capacityc record / H. habilis 2,100 – 1,500 Africa 110-140 33–55 kg c510–660cc(cm³) Many 1960/1964publicatio [1] cm (4 ft (73–121 lb H. erectus 1,900 – 70 [2] Africa, Eurasia 180 cm 60 kg 850 Many[3 1891/1892 (Java, , (5 ft 11 (130 lb) (early) – ] H. rudolfensis 1,900 ,KenyaCaucasu in) 7001,100 2sites1972/1986 membership in Homo uncertain H. gautengensis 1,900 – 600 100 cm 3indivi 2010/2010 also classified as (3 ft 3 in) duals H. habilis [4] H. ergaster 1,800 – 1,300[ Eastern and 700–850 Many 1949/1975 also classified as 5] Southern H. erectus Africa

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Comparative table of Homo species: Sons of Men Species Temporal Habitat Adult Adult Cranial Fossil Discovery range kya height mass capacityc record / H. antecessor 1,200 – 800 175 cm 90 kg c1,000cc(cm³) 2 sites 1994/1997publicatio also classified as (5 ft 9 in) (200 lb) H. heidelbergensis

H. cepranensis 900 – 350 1,000 1 skull 1994/2003 a single fossil, cap possibly H. erectus

H. 600 – 300 , Africa, 180 cm 90 kg 1,100–1,4 Many 1907/1908 heidelbergensis [6] China (5 ft 11 (200 lb) 00 in) H. neanderthalens 350 – 40 Europe, 170 cm 55–70 kg 1,200–1,9 Many 1829/1864 is [7] Western Asia (5 ft 7 in) (121–154 l 00 possibly a b) (heavily subspecies of built) H. sapiens H. naledi 335–236 South Africa 150 45 450 15 2013/2015 centimetr kilograms individ es (4 ft 11 (99 lb) uals in) tall H. tsaichangensis 190 – 10 Taiwan 1 2008(?)/20 possibly H. erectus [8] individ 15 ual H. rhodesiensis 300–120 1,300 Very 1921/1921 also classified as few H. heidelbergensis

H. sapiens 200 Worldwide 150 - 190 50–100 kg 950–1,80 (extant —/1758 (anatomically [9] – present cm (4 ft 7 (110–220 l 0 ) modern humans) in b) - 6 ft 3 in) H. floresiensis 190 – 50 100 cm 25 kg 400 7 2003/2004 classification (3 ft 3 in) (55 lb) individ uncertain uals

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Comparative table of Homo species: Sons of Men Species Temporal Habitat Adult Adult Cranial Fossil Discovery range kya height mass capacityc record / Denisova hominin 40 c cc(cm³) 1 site 2000/2010publicatio possible [10] H. sapiens subspecies or hybrid Red Cave 14.5–11.5 China Very 2012/— people few possible H. sapiens

1. Schrenk, Friedemann; Kullmer, Ottmar; Bromage, Timothy (2007). "The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils". In Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian. Handbook of .. In collaboration with Thorolf Hardt. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1611–1631. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33761-4_52. ISBN 978-3-540-32474-4. Confirmed H. habilis fossils are dated to between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. This date range overlaps with the emergence of . Wilford, John Noble (August 9, 2007). "Fossils in Challenge Linear Evolution". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-05-04.

DiMaggio, Erin N.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Rowan, John; et al. (March 20, 2015). "Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia". Science. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science. 347 (6228): 1355–1359. doi:10.1126/science.aaa1415. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25739409. Hominins with "proto-Homo" traits may have lived as early as 2.8 million years ago, as suggested by a fossil jawbone classified as transitional between and Homo discovered in 2015.

2. Haviland, William A.; Walrath, Dana; Prins, Harald E. L.; McBride, Bunny (2007). Evolution and : The Human Challenge (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-495-38190-7. H. erectus may have appeared some 2 million years ago. Fossils dated to as much as 1.8 million years ago have been found both in Africa and in Southeast Asia, and the oldest fossils by a narrow margin (1.85 to 1.77 million years ago) were found in the Caucasus, so that it is unclear whether H. erectus emerged in Africa and migrated to Eurasia, or if, conversely, it evolved in Eurasia and migrated back to Africa.

Ferring, R.; Oms, O.; Agusti, J.; Berna, F.; Nioradze, M.; Shelia, T.; Tappen, M.; Vekua, A.; Zhvania, D.; Lordkipanidze, D. (2011). "Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (26): 10432. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106638108. PMC 3127884 . PMID 21646521.

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Frazier, Kendrick (November–December 2006). "Leakey Fights Church Campaign to Downgrade Kenya Museum's Human Fossils". Skeptical Inquirer. Amherst, NY: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 30 (6). ISSN 0194-6730. Retrieved 2015-05-04.

3. Now also included in H. erectus are (formerly Sinanthropus pekinensis) and (formerly Pithecanthropus erectus). H. erectus is now grouped into various subspecies, including Homo erectus erectus, Homo erectus yuanmouensis, Homo erectus lantianensis, Homo erectus nankinensis, Homo erectus pekinensis, Homo erectus palaeojavanicus, Homo erectus soloensis, Homo erectus tautavelensis, Homo erectus georgicus. The distinction from descendant species such as , , , and indeed Homo sapiens is not entirely clear.

4. Curnoe, Darren (June 2010). "A review of early Homo in southern Africa focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)". HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. 61 (3): 151–177. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2010.04.002. ISSN 0018-442X. PMID 20466364. A species proposed in 2010 based on the fossil remains of three individuals dated between 1.9 and 0.6 million years ago. The same fossils were also classified as H. habilis, H. ergaster or Australopithecus by other anthropologists.

5. Hazarika, Manjil (2007). "Homo erectus/ergaster and Out of Africa: Recent Developments in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology" (PDF). EAA Summer School eBook. 1. European Anthropological Association. pp. 35–41. Retrieved 2015-05-04. "Intensive Course in Biological Anthrpology, 1st Summer School of the European Anthropological Association, 16–30 June, 2007, Prague, "

6. The type fossil is Mauer 1, dated to ca. 0.6 million years ago. The transition from H. heidelbergensis to H. neanderthalensis between 300 and 243 thousand years ago is conventional, and makes use of the fact that there is no known fossil in this period. Examples of H. heidelbergensis are fossils found at Bilzingsleben (also classified as Homo erectus bilzingslebensis).

7. Bischoff, James L.; Shamp, Donald D.; Aramburu, Arantza; et al. (March 2003). "The Sima de los Huesos Hominids Date to Beyond U/Th Equilibrium (>350 kyr) and Perhaps to 400–500 kyr: New Radiometric Dates". Journal of Archaeological Science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. 30 (3): 275–280. doi:10.1006/jasc.2002.0834. ISSN 0305-4403. The first humans with "proto- traits" lived in Eurasia as early as 0.6 to 0.35 million years ago (classified as H. heidelbergensis, also called a chronospecies because it represents a chronological grouping rather than being based on clear morphological distinctions from either H. erectus or H. neanderthalensis), with the first "true " appearing between 0.25 and 0.2 million years ago.

Papagianni, Dmitra; Morse, Michael A. (2013). The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story. New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05177-1.

8. Chang, Chun-Hsiang; Kaifu, Yousuke; Takai, Masanaru; Kono, Reiko T.; Grün, Rainer; Matsu’ura, Shuji; Kinsley, Les; Lin, Liang-Kong (2015). "The first archaic Homo from Taiwan". Nature Communications. 6: 6037. doi:10.1038/ncomms7037. PMC 4316746 . PMID 25625212.

9. The age of H. sapiens has long been assumed to be close to 200,000 years, but since 2017 there have been a number of suggestions extending this time to has high as 300,000 years. In 2017, fossils found in Jebel 22 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

Irhoud (Morocco) suggest that Homo sapiens may have speciated by as early as 315,000 years ago. Callaway, Ewan (7 June 2017). "Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22114. Retrieved 11 June 2017.

Genetic evidence has been adduced for an age of roughly 270,000 years. Posth, Cosimo; et al. (4 July 2017). "Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals". Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms16046. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

10. provisional names Homo sp. Altai or Homo sapiens ssp. Denisova.

The above scientific table amply explains that the children of men who were created during the sixth day of creation by Elohim were all over the earth. They were essentially hunter gatherers who roamed the earth as a tribal group asserting their presence and superiority over the other life forms and over the earth as a whole.

A look at the size of the humanoids in the table will tell us that they were not giants. They were around pygmy size of 3 feet 3 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall . (say 3 feet to six feet). Their weight ranged from 30 Kg to a 100 Kg. Their Cranial Capacity - the brain size - ranged from 500 cc to 2000cc

I have given these comparisons just to show how the entry of Adam into the world outside must have toppled the history SONS OF GOD

Now after the Sabbath much later in history YHVH of Elohim one of the first among Trinity who came into existence within the realm of existence, created Adam and gave him the extra spirit of His own Spirit by blowing into the clay. This is our Adam - the first Adam with the Spirit of God within. A co-creator with YHVH his creator.

Gen 2:7-8 And the YHVH Elohim formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the YHVH Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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"There is a great difference between the CREATION event described in Genesis chapter one and the FORMING event described in Genesis chapter two. It is common practice for most Christians to assume that chapter two is simply a rehash of chapter one -- with additional information provided. But when we take a close look at the differences between the two events in the two chapters, it becomes almost impossible to believe that they are describing the same event."

Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH): The TWO Creation Accounts of Genesis! by John D. Keyser http://www.hope-of-israel.org/twocreationsaccts.html Adam and Eve were created by the breath of YHVH and were the children of God. This is the first time we are told that "Man became a living soul" .

At any rate when Adam and Eve emerged from the Garden of Eden the humanoids (whatever they may have been) were very much there. With an imposing height and corresponding intelligence far above that of the children of men, Adam and Eve were probably feared and respected. Adam was an agriculturalist, ( tiller and keeper of the Garden of YHVH) a speciality which was not known among the children of men. With his skill Adam must have established his home somewhere along the fertile valley along one of the rivers flowing out of Eden. Thus began the start of civilization. The story of a new beginning of earth.

The Talmud (Chagiga 12A) says that Adam was created as tall as one end of the heavens to the other (also described as from earth to the heavens), but after he sinned God made him smaller. Rashi (Baba Batra 75A) explains that when God made Adam smaller, he shrunk him to 100 Cubits (approximately 150 ft). People have been decreasing in stature since Adam's creation. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 543) However exaggerated these numbers may be we can assume that Adamic race until the flood were of giant stature.

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.(http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Menj/60cubits.htm. https://www.bismikaallahuma.org/hadith/exegesis/were-men-really-60-cubits-tall/)

Here Adam family with a giant size (90 feet?) living upto 1000 years among the local hunter gatherers of height less than 6 feet and a length of life less than a 100 years is sufficient to change the history and civilization of the world. I suppose Adamsons height and weight and stature were correspondingly imposing. The new culture of Civilization based on Agriculture and Living together as families changed the earth and its history as soon as Adam and Eve came out of Eden. They probably had the pygmy humans of outside world as labor

Adam is hiring labor for his agricultural estate.

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We have a new beginning starting from then. Two GIANTS - Adam and Eve young and strong entering -in the midst of an otherwise nomadic earthians - with their agricultural skills and higher intelligence with as much self assertion of haRA as those outside. The sons of God - Adam and Eve- were as demonic as the sons of men roaming and subduing the earth. For all purposes both the Adamites and the outside Mankind were demons fixed on self assertion and ego, except that their life time is limited by entropy.

Comparison of weight and longevity of various creatures.

Cow 800000 22 Weight Longevity Pig 150000 25 (grams) (years) Rabbit 1000 9 Creature elephant 5000000 70 Human 90000 70

Cat 2000 15 giraffe 900000 20

Small dog 2000 10 large whale 120000000 80

Medium dog 5000 15

Large dogs 8000 17

Hamster 60 3

Chicken 1500 15

Monkey 5000 15

Horse 1200000 40 26 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

Cain and Abel with a local human?

Adam would have been looked upon by these sons of men as a Rabbit would look upon a human Num 13:33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." The Nephiims had the stature of the Adamic race before the flood. We should assume that the Sons of God who were with the Elohim would have the same stature.

Left: Simon Paap 28 inches high ,Mr. James Toller, 18 years old 8 feet high Right: The giant in the picture on the right is Raiden Tameemon, born Seki Tarokichi (January 1767 – February 11, 1825) and is considered one of the greatest sumo wrestlers in history. Although, he was only six foot five he was a genetic anomaly in where the average man is five foot seven inches. https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/ViktoriyaShchupak.shtm

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Standardize Volume of a Human Brain Result d Bibliographic Entry (w/surrounding text) Result

"Their brains were about the size of those of Raven, Peter H. & Johnson, present-day gorillas, about 350 to 450 cubic George B. Biology. Iowa: Brown, centimeters in volume, as compared with an 1450 cm3 1995: 443. average volume of about 1450 cubic centimeters in modern humans."

Milner, Richard. "Cranial Capacity." "Living humans have a cranial capacity ranging The Encyclopedia of Evolution: from about 950 cc to 1800 cc, with the average 1400 cm3 Humanity's Search For Its Origins. about 1400 cc." New York: Holt, 1990: 98.

"While the largest Homo erectus brains were about Stringer, Christopher & Gamble, 1250 ml (2 imperial pints) and modern brains Clive. In Search of the average about 1200–1500 ml in volume, female 1200–1500 Neanderthals. New York: Thames Neanderthal brains were about 1300 ml and those cm3 & Hudson, 1993. of males about 1600 ml, extending to 1740 ml in the Amud man."

"Modern man has a brain volume of about 1500 cc, Vilee, Claude A. Biology. while the higher apes have a brain size of only 1500 cm3 Philadelphia: Saunders, 1954. 600 cc."

"This went up to about 1075 cc in the fossils, and rose to about 1400 in Neandertals, 1400 cm3 whose brains were about the size of modern human Walker, Alan & Shipman, Pat. The brains." Wisdom of the Bones. New York: Knopf, 1996. "A human baby's brain starts at 369 cc and increases, during the first of life, to about 1345 cm3 961 cc, after which the growth rate declines; adult cranial capacity is approximately 1345 cc."

Oram, Raymond F, Hummer, Paul J. & Smoot, Robert C. Biology: "Brain size was about equal to that of modern 1450 cm3 Teacher's Annotated Edition. humans (about 1450 cm3)." Ohio: Bell & Howell, 1983.

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CHAPTER THREE ADAM THE GIANT FARMER

Life for hunter-gatherer women were pretty good, according to anthropologist Richard Lee, hunter-gatherers were “fiercely egalitarian”. These societies practiced a system of “Reverse Dominance” preventing anyone person from taking too much control, the system was apparently well suited to their lifestyle as it is still used to this day in small groups that do not keep crops or animals. Also,as these societies were always on the move constantly woman could only have as many children as they could comfortable carry.

Now that the new culture of settled farming came in vogue, the power shift took place and a new “Dominance Hierarchy” took root. Since the number of children provided more hands on labor, women found themselves to baby making machines with woman for a large part found themselves at the bottom. They also provided labor. So the men married several wives.

Adam and Eve had two sons - Cain and Abel. Cain the first son took up the occupation of his father Adam as the settled agriculturalist and Abel the second followed the occupation of those sons of men into which the Adam family were thrown out into.

These were in direct conflict with each other in their culture and basic philosophy. Cain represents the system of agriculture, and individual or monopoly ownership where individuals were assertive - a direct outcome of the haRa assertion. Abel on the other hand was a keeper of the flock of the primitive socialism .

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According to Josephus, Cain's decision to become a farmer is associated with a covetous, domineering and controlling nature, while Abel's decision to become a shepherd is linked to his righteousness and virtue. Because Abel believed that God is omnipresent, he was prepared to be anywhere on the earth and he chose an occupation in which he tended and guarded God's creation. Cain was a covetous man, so he chose to exploit the earth and its resources to the maximum

The story as given in the Bible then goes on with the story of Cain and Abel in which Cain kills his brother Abel, declaring the death of tribalism and socialism and the coming of private ownership and the philosophy of individualism. Abel disappeared from history and Cain took over the earth. Yes indeed, mankind became demonic and the only way out God could manage in the context was the death of the individual. It was a revolution that produced a new man, a powerful and evil man, as well as the age of civilization and discrimination.

The effect of Adam’s release from Eden upon mankind was monumental. Within just 1000 years of his expulsion (in 3993Nisan ), in fact whilst Adam was still alive (he died in 3097 aged 930 years see - Genesis 5:3,4) they had built cities with large bureaucracies, learned how to write, invented the , domesticated the horse, forged all sorts of alloys, started worshiping in temples and doubled population from around 7 million to around 14 million!!

At the end of the early period, then let us say 5000 BC, we find that throughout the greater part of the Near East, all the requirements for the birth of civilization were present. Villages, Market towns (eg: Catal Huyuk West, over 1300 ft in diameter)…Nevertheless, the expected birth of civilization did not take place. It was delayed for nearly another millennium and a half, and when it did come, it was not in the areas which had hitherto been most prominent, but in the dismally flat lands of S. (Mesopotamia) and a little later in . Areas which until then had been of little or no importance. Why was this so? (The Dawn of Civilization - Sunday Times 1961).

First Writings Table: The appearance of writing marks the end of the prehistoric period and the beginning of the historic period.

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Nation Date of first writings found Source Cambridge Ancient History Vol1 Part 1 Mesopotamia (Uruk IVb) 3500 BC p226-228. Egyptian Hieroglyphics 3000 BC Genesis - Feyericks Chinese 2500 BC Ancient Civilizations - Scarre & Fagan

The Wheel:

The solid wheel was invented around 3000BC (The Dawn of Civilization - Sunday Times 1961) and the spoked wheel around 2000BC (Cambridge Ancient History Vol 1 part 1).

The First City:

Today we define a city (in the West) as a town with a cathedral in it. The very first City in the World is known to be Eridu in Mesopotamia, it contained man's first temple. The Summerian King List, a rectangular clay tablet, an early historical document still in existence today, details 5 cities in Mesopotamia from which 8 kings ruled before the flood. The first of these is said to be Eridu. It says:

“When Kingship was lowered from heaven, the kingship was in Eridu. Eridu, Alulim king and reigned 28,800 years/days/units. Algalar reigned 36,000 units. Two kings reigned for 64,800 units……. Badtibira had three kings reigning for 43,200 units, 28,800 units and 36,000 units. Then Larak had one king reigning for 28,800 units. Then Sippar had one king reigning for 21,000 units. Shuruppak, Ubartutu became king and reigned 18,600 units. One king reigned 18,600 units.

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Five cities were they, 8 kings reigned there 241,200 units. The flood swept there over. After the flood had swept thereover when kingship was lowered from heaven, the kingship was in Kish.”

The Cambridge Ancient History (Vol1 Part 1 p330), confirms that Eridu was the first town to become a city, by which is meant that it had an elite ruling class of administrators who were not farmers, it was not a farming co-operative. Cities have overall Mayors and local councils basically. 'Ancient Civilizations' dates this City at 3700 BC.

Appendix

Here is a detailed timeline of human civilization prior to the creation of Adam 6000 years ago Wikipedia.

This timeline of human prehistory comprises the time from the first appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa 200,000 years ago to the invention of writing and the beginning of history approximately 5,500 years ago. It covers the time from the Middle (Old ) to the very beginnings of the Bronze Age. The divisions used are those delineating the European Stone Age; however, many regions around the world underwent various stages of Stone Age development at different times.

All dates are approximate and based on research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, genetics, geology, and linguistics. They are all subject to revision based on new discoveries or analyses.

Middle Paleolithic

Engraved with grid or cross-hatch patterns from , South Africa. One of the earliest examples of abstract or symbolic art dating from around 70,000 years ago.

 200,000 years ago: first appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa.  200,000–180,000 years ago: time of and Y-chromosomal Adam.  195,000 years ago: oldest Homo sapiens fossil—from Omo, Ethiopia.

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 170,000 years ago: humans are wearing by this date  125,000 years ago: peak of the Eemian inter-glacial period.  120,000–90,000 years ago: Abbassia Pluvial in North Africa—the Sahara desert region is wet and fertile.  82,000 years ago: small perforated seashell beads from in Morocco are the earliest evidence of personal adornment found anywhere in the world.  75,000 years ago: Toba Volcano super eruption.  70,000 years ago: earliest example of abstract art or symbolic art from Blombos Cave, South Africa—stones engraved with grid or cross-hatch patterns.  64,000 years ago: The bow and first replace the thrower in Africa.

Upper Paleolithic

 50,000 years ago: earliest found. Made and used by .  50,000–30,000 years ago: Pluvial in North Africa. The Sahara desert region is wet and fertile. Later Stone Age begins in Africa.  45,000–43,000 years ago: Cro-Magnon colonization of Europe.  45,000–40,000 years ago: Châtelperronian culture in .  42,000 years ago: Paleolithic flutes in .  42,000 years ago: earliest evidence of advanced deep sea fishing at the cave site in —demonstrates high-level maritime skills and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.  41,000 years ago: Denisova hominin lives in the Altai Mountains.  40,000 years ago: extinction of Homo neanderthalensis.  40,000 years ago: culture begins in Europe.  40,000 years ago: oldest known figurative art the zoomorphic Löwenmensch figurine.

Bradshaw rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia

 40,000–30,000 years ago: First human settlement (Aboriginal Australians) in Sydney,Perthand Melbourne.  40,000–20,000 years ago: oldest known ritual , the Mungo Lady, in Lake Mungo, Australia.  35,000 years ago: oldest known figurative art of a human figure as opposed to a zoomorphic figure (Venus of ).  33,000 years ago: oldest known domesticated dog skulls show they existed in both Europe and Siberia by this time.

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 30,000 years ago: rock paintings tradition begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India, which presently as a collection is the densest known concentration of . In an area about 10 km2, there are about 800 rock shelters of which 500 contain paintings.  29,000 years ago: The earliest ovens found.  28,500 years ago: New Guinea is populated by colonists from Asia or Australia.  28,000 years ago: oldest known twisted .  28,000–20,000 years ago: period in Europe. and saws invented.  28,000–24,000 years ago: oldest known —used to make figurines rather than or storage vessels (Venus of Dolní Věstonice).  26,000 years ago: people around the world use fibers to make baby carriers, clothes, bags, , and nets.  26,000–20,000 years ago: Last Glacial Maximum.  25,000 years ago: a hamlet consisting of built of rocks and of mammoth bones is founded in what is now Dolní Věstonice in Moravia in the Czech Republic. This is the oldest human permanent settlement that has yet been found by archaeologists.  21,000 years ago: artifacts suggests early human activity occurred in Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

Mesolithic

 20,000 years ago: Kebaran culture in the Levant.  20,000 years ago: oldest pottery storage/cooking vessels from China.  16,500–13,000 years ago: first colonization of North America.  16,000 years ago: Wisent sculpted in clay deep inside the cave now known as Le Tuc d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what is now the border of Spain.  15,000–14,700 years ago (13,000 BC to 12,700 BC): Earliest supposed date for the of the pig.  14,800 years ago: The Humid Period begins in North Africa. The region that would later become the Sahara is wet and fertile, and the aquifers are full.  13,000–10,000 years ago: Late Glacial Maximum, end of the Last glacial period, climate warms, glaciers recede.  13,000 years ago (11,000 BC): A major water outbreak occurs on Lake Agassiz, which at the time could have been the size of the current Black Sea and the largest lake on Earth. Much of the lake is drained in the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie River.  13,000–11,000 years ago (11,000 BC to 9,000 BC): Earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the sheep.  12,000 years ago: Jericho has evidence of settlement dating back to 10,000 BC. Jericho was a popular camping ground for Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent tools behind them.  12,000 years ago (10,000 BC): Earliest dates suggested for the domestication of the goat.  12,000 years ago (10,000 BC): Land ice leaves Denmark and southern Sweden; start of the current Holocene epoch.  11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Earliest date recorded for construction of temenoi ceremonial structures at Göbekli Tepe in southern , as possibly the oldest surviving proto-religious site on Earth.[30]

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 11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Emergence of Jericho, which is now one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Giant short-faced and giant ground sloths go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North America.  10,500 years ago (8,500 BC): Earliest supposed date for the domestication of cattle.  10,000 years ago (8,000 BC): The event, which has been ongoing since the mid-, concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave , cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in small island populations until ~1650 BC.

Neolithic

 11,000 – 9,000 years ago: Byblos appears to have been settled during the PPNB period, approximately 8800 to 7000 BC. remains of some buildings can be observed at the site.  10,000 – 8,000 years ago (8000 BC to 6000 BC): The post-glacial sea level rise decelerates, slowing the submersion of landmasses that had taken place over the previous 10,000 years.  10,000 – 9,000 years ago (8000 BC to 7000 BC): In northern Mesopotamia, now northern Iraq, cultivation of barley and wheat begins. At first they are used for beer, gruel, and soup, eventually for bread.[33] In early agriculture at this time, the planting stick is used, but it is replaced by a primitive plow in subsequent centuries.[34] Around this time, a round stone tower, now preserved to about 8.5 meters high and 8.5 meters in diameter is built in Jericho.  9,500–5,900 years ago: Neolithic Subpluvial in North Africa. The Sahara desert region supports a savanna-like environment. Lake Chad is larger than the current Caspian Sea. An African culture develops across the current Sahel region.  9,500 years ago (7500 BC): Çatalhöyük urban settlement founded in Anatolia. Earliest supposed date for the domestication of the cat.  9,200 years ago: First human settlement in Amman, ; 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic settlement was built spanning over an area of 15 hectares.  9,000 years ago (7000 BC): Jiahu culture began in China.  8,200–8,000 years ago: 8.2 kiloyear event: a sudden decrease of global temperatures, likely caused by the final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which leads to drier conditions in East Africa and Mesopotamia.  8,000 years ago: Evidence of habitation at the current site of Aleppo dates to about c. 8,000 years ago, although excavations at Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of the city show the area was inhabited about 13,000 years ago,Carbon-14 dating at Tell Ramad, on the outskirts of Damascus, suggests that the site may have been occupied since the second half of the seventh millennium BC, possibly around 6300 BC. However, evidence of settlement in the wider Barada basin dating back to 9000 BC exists.  7,500 years ago (5500 BC): Copper smelting in evidence in Pločnik and other locations.  7,200–6,000 years ago: 5200–4000 BC:Għar Dalam phase on . First farming settlements on the island.  7,000 years ago (5000 BC): late Neolithic civilizations, invention of the wheel and spread of proto-writing. The oldest golden treasure found in Varna Necropolis, .  6,100–5,800 years ago: 4100–3800 BC: Żebbuġ phase. Malta.  6,070–6,000 years ago (4050–4000 BC): Trypillian build in Nebelivka (Ukraine) settlement which reached 15,000—18,000 inhabitants.

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 6,000 years ago (4000 BC): Civilizations develop in the Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent region (around the location of modern-day Iraq). Earliest supposed dates for the domestication of the horse and for the domestication of the chicken.  5,900 years ago: 5.9 kiloyear event: a rapid and intense aridification event, which likely started the current Sahara Desert dry phase and a population increase in the Nile Valley due to migrations from nearby regions. It is also believed this event contributed to the end of the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia.  5,800 years ago: (3840 to 3800 BC): The Post Track and causeways are constructed in the Somerset Levels.  5,800 years ago (3800 BC): Trypillian build in Talianki (Ukraine) settlement which reached 15,600—21,000 inhabitants.  5,800–5,600 years ago: (3800–3600 BC): Mġarr phase A short transitional period in Malta's prehistory. It is characterized by pottery consisting of mainly curved lines.  5,700 years ago (3800 to 3600 BC): mass graves at Tell Brak in Syria.  5,700 years ago (3700 BC): Trypillian build in Maidanets (Ukraine) settlement which reached 12,000—46,000 inhabitants, and built 3-storey building.  5,700 years ago: (3700 to 3600 BC): Minoan culture begins on Crete.  5,600–5,200 years ago (3600–3200 BC): Ġgantija phase on Malta. Characterized by a change in the way the prehistoric inhabitants of Malta lived.  5,500 years ago: (3600 to 3500 BC): Uruk period in Sumer. First evidence of mummification in Egypt.

Bronze Age

 5,300 years ago: (3300 BC): Bronze Age begins in the Near East Newgrange is built in Ireland. Hakra Phase of the Indus Valley Civilisation begins in the Indian subcontinent.  5,300–5,000 years ago (3300-3000 BC): Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory.  5,200 years ago: (3200 BC): Writing is invented in Sumer, triggering the beginning of recorded history.

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http://www.crutchercpa.com/adamcpts.htm

ADAM'S DESCENDANTS

A Primer Concerning the Relationship of Civilization, God's Law And the Descendants of Adam

Written By J. Kent Crutcher 1996

CHAPTER 2 THE SUMERIANS

"Before Adam "man existed not to cultivate the Earth" …Symbolically, this meant not only to develop the land for sustenance, but also to care for the earth and God's other creations. Or to put it another way, there was not a man genetically programmed to build, to create, to organize and to bring order into the Creation. Adam lived from about 5407 BC to about 4477 BC (Considering the current life expectancy to be about 80 years, many people of today do not believe that Adam could have lived to be 930 years old. One possible explanation was that Adam, being Adamic man, par excellence, was particularly resistant to disease and the aging process. )

According to all modern historians, the Sumerians were the first people to develop a civilization. Generally, 3500 BC (which is about the time when Adam emerged from Eden and started the Agriculture Civilization) is the period most researchers place as the founding of this "cultivation of the earth." Perhaps their most outstanding contribution was the development of cuneiform script, the earliest known system of writing. Their written evidence also indicates they had knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. The Sumerians also invented the plow and probably were the first to use wheeled vehicles, as well as being the first to use the arch in construction.

The Sumerians were an agricultural people and discovered how to capture floodwater and later use it to irrigate in the dry season. The system was elaborate and quite a feat of engineering. It served to make vast areas of the desert bloom on the hot, dry Mesopotamian (Greek for "between the rivers") plain…….

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Because of this vast system, the Sumerians were able to settle permanently in one place. They were the first people to build cities. They used dried clay or mud bricks for buildings. They invented the "Temple," which resulted in a terraced tower or ziggurat, no doubt the first of the many created by ancient civilized man. The government was primarily a number of independent city-states.

Ur of the Chaldees from which Abraham came

In the Sumerian city, the Ziggurat of Ur - a skyscraper over the city - was the first temple probably which. was about 20 metres (66 feet) tall. Later the ziggurat became more than a place for gods

The computer model of the Ziguret - the first temple.

The Sumerian civilization continued until about 2300 BC. At that time, they were conquered by another Adamic race of people. They later regained independence. Some time later, they were conquered again and by 2000 BC they finally ceased to exist as a separate people. Abraham, of the Bible, a

38 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN descendant of Adam, left Ur, Sumeria, his homeland, about 2000 BC. In the Bible, the name for Sumeria is Chaldees.

Who were the Sumerians, and where did they come from? The "native" residents of Sumeria were pre-Adamic men. They were shorter with dark and dark eyes. Most historians believe the creators of the Sumerian civilization to have come somewhere from the north. http://www.thechristianidentityforum.net/downloads/Phoenician-Origins.pdf Waddell states them to be long-headed (Nordic) Aryans (Indo-European). "They were the longish-headed, broad-browed and large-brained Nordic type; and they were obviously fair in complexion as attested by the blue eyes and white shell inlaid with lapis lazuli stone inset in some of their statues and also by the darkish colour of much of their jewelry; and of fair hair, and their general term for their subject people was 'the black-headed (haired) people'. The kings and officials on state occasions usually wore the Gothic horned head-dress of the Ancient Britons and Anglo-Saxon" Waddell also has an interesting study of the "King-List in the Isin Chronicle" of the ancient Sumerians. The "King-List" is exactly that, their official genealogical king's record. His deciphering work has tied the Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Indian kings to the same source. In the Sumerian language records, the first of the ancient kings was known by several names, some of which were Ja, Yah, Ad, Adar, Adda, Addamu, or Adam.Adar at around 3378 B.C

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Waddell's voluminious writings after his retirement were based on an attempt to prove the Sumerians (who he identified as Aryans) as the progenitors of other ancient civilizations, such as the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient Egyptians to "the classic Greeks and Romans and Ancient Britons, to whom they [the Sumerians] passed on from hand to hand down the ages the torch of civilization".

"And as regards Origins, I find myself opposed not merely to the theorists who trace most of our culture to Judaism; but also to those who refer it to an effect, manifested rather suddenly some six thousand years ago, of the Egyptian climate on the mixed populations who at that period inhabited the Nile Valley; and also to those who look upon Civilization as arising independently amongst different races at different centers and due to a supposedly widely distributed similar temperamental strain amongst different races reacting in the very same way when exposed to the same circumstances in the early historic and later prehistoric times." Waddell

"ADAM" OF .. THE GARDEN OF EDEN" LEGEND AS A TRAVESTY OF THE FIRST HISTORICAL ARYAN KING WITH HIS HISTORY & CHARACTER PERVERTED

"It now transpired from our discovery of this Kan or Can title for the second Aryan or Sumerian king, in view of his being recorded as the builder of the City of Enoch (Unug or Erech), and as the son of Adar, Adda or Addamu and as the father of Enu, Enuzu, Naksha or Nahusha the father of .. la-patesi," that Kan or Can was obviously the historical original of the .. Cain" of the Hebrew Genesis with the genealogy of .. Adam, Cain, Enoch or Enos, Noah and Japhet "; and that his father, King Adar or Adda

40 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN or Addamu, was the historical original of .. Adam" of "The Garden of Eden" legend of the Hebrew Genesis, with his history and character perverted by the Semites.

"Further examination fully confirmed this chain of identities. And it showed that the Hebrew rabbis who composed Genesis with its Garden of Eden and Creation of Man story had manifestly helped themselves to the floating traditional history in late Babylonia in respect to the oldest kings known to the ancient world, namely the kings of the First Aryan Dynasty. But not understanding it, they had travestied the historical facts and the noble character of the great King “ Adam,” by making “ Adam “ to be the first lowly “ created ” man, instead of the first man and super- man, several geological periods subsequent to the advent of man in the world, who first made men of the Pre-Adamite men. His date also they did not get quite correctly, but evidently took the late Babylonian estimate which placed him several centuries beiore his true date. Thus they made their date for the “ creation ” of Adam and the “ Creation of the World " to be 3761: B.C.; whereas the year on which King “ Adam " ascended his throne, as we now find by the new historical evidence, was about the year 3378 B.C.

Sumerian Eddic Gothic Hebrew Genesis

1 Udu (or Odo) or Adar (Adamu) Odo, Adar or Adr Adam (Son of Yah)

2. Gin, Gun, Kan-, or Azag (Son of 1) Gunn, Kon or AEgis (Son of 1) Quin or "Cain" or Aysh (Son of 1)

3. Enu, Enuzu, Unnusha (Son of 2) Hoeni (Son of 2) Enoch or Hanuk or Enos or Noah (Son of 2)

4 Udu-Patesi (Son of 3) - Iapat or "Japhet" (Son of NOah

The first four kings of Sumeria seems to be identical with the four descendants of Adam the son of Yah.

"And the “ Sons of God " who married " the daughters of men " in the Hebrew legend are seen to have been obviously the Aryan " sons " or descendants of the Aryan King “ Adam " who introduced Civilization with the idea of a God of Light in Heaven into the Old World of lowly pre-Adamite men, Chaldean and Semitic worshippers of the Old Serpent and malignant demons of Darkness and the underworld demanding sanguinary sacrifices. But presumably owing to imperfect knowledge of the historical facts they mutilated the tradition and degraded these illustrious kings into their own primitive

41 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN pre-Adamite ancestors, notwithstanding that these famous kings were not Semitic in race at all, but Sumerians, Early Aryans, or " Nordics ” or Goths."

[Waddell living at the peak of white colonisation was a white Aryan supremist and hence tries to prove that even YHVH an Adam and Cain were Aryan kings who started the first world civilization and in fact all world civilizations. I n his book he seems to indicate that Sumeria was the culture which was started by Adam and Eve.]

Alexander Winchell assuming the Adamic people were white identifies the pre-admites all over the earth as below. This is in 1880.

Pre-Adamism became the scientific justification for slavery and a defence for racism arguing that they were not humans fully with the breath of God in them and they were only one step ahead of animals.

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Genesis 9:25 -Curse of Ham, Slavery Justified Genesi 17:12 - God comfortable with slavery. Leviticus 22:10 - Children of slaves are slaves. Leviticus 25:44-46 - Slaves to be sold like livestock. Exodus 12:43 - God shows Moses approval of slavery. Exod us 21:2-6 - Mutilate your slaves. Leviticus 27:3-7 - Set the price of your slaves. Exodus 21:32 - Set the price of your slaves. Exodus 21:?-11 - Sell your daughter as a sex slave. Exodus 21:20-21 - How to beat your slaves. Ephesians 6:5 -Jesus approves of slavery. 1 Timothy 6:1-2 - Jesus aproves of slavery. Luke 7:2 -Jesus comfortable with slavery. Luke 12:47-ll - Jesus approves beating slaves Colossians 3:22 - Slaves obey your masters Titus 2:9 - Slaves submit to your masters. 1 Peter 2:18 - Slaves obey your masters

People forget that all mankind are children of God whether fallen or not. These are not justification of slavery or racism, but instructions to a fallen generation for temperary relief.

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In the next 1500 years, Mesopotamia was conquered and reconquered by different people. Some of the conquerors were pure Adamites; some were a mixture.

The Assyrian Empire arose along with the Babylonian. Their leaders were initially Adamites who were of giant dimension compared to the pre-Adamite outsiderss. Then as time progressed, most of the people became mixed.

King Hammurabi established a written code of rules by which to live. Adamic man had long used these laws in his world; they were genetically ingrained, i.e., a circumcised heart , so to speak. But this was the first time in history the laws had become written

The Babylonians made advances in science. They made many accurate astronomical observations and performed many complex mathematical calculations. Man's world order began to override God's order. The influence of Adam's genealogy in Assyria and Babylonia grew weak with time, but it was still alive. In a selfish manner, Adamic man continued onward following his genetic programming. But in time the greatness waned in Mesopotamia. The strong among him traveled further westward. Today, most of the people we see in southwestern Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) and the remaining Middle East are the mixture of pre-Adamic man (the darker skin and eyes people) and Adamic man, the creators of the ancient Sumerian/Assyrian/Babylonian civilizations. However, there still exists a remnant of pure Adamic man living in these regions.

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The location of the Garden of Eden is given to us in the Bible:

“And the LORD God planted a Garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. …And a river went out of Eden to water the Garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.” (Genesis Chapter 2, verses 8 to 14)

The land between two rivers Euphrates and Tigris. These are two rivers that flow out of Eden. So Eden must have been somewhere here from which Adam and Eve emerged and started this civilization Don’t forget that they were demons with emphasis on Ra the self assertion. Thus the world civilization will reflect that. This is in no way God's concept of a redeemed world.

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We do not have the other two rivers Pishon and Gihon today. These rivers are described as arising within the Garden of Eden. The Pishon is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah." This is the scholar assignment of those rivers White and Blue Niles of today assuming Havilah as Egypt. Cush is evidently Ethiopia. The prophet Ezekiel mentions in his name sake book of the Bible that the trees in the Garden of Eden come from (Ezekiel 31:15–18). This simple passage has been said by some to prove Eden is somewhere in modern day Lebanon. With the establishment of the cities of Sumer, their history unfolds from approximately 5000 BCE to 1750 BCE when “the Sumerians ceased to exist as a people” (Kramer) after Sumer was invaded by the Elamites and Amorites.

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CHPATER FOUR CAIN AND ABEL http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/articles_cainandabel.html The Untold Story of Cain and Abel By Jeff A. Benner http://rabbidavidzaslow.com/whats-in-a-name-a-secret-about-cain-and-abel

In the Bible Cain was the first murderer having killed his brother Abel in a fit of jealousy.

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Eve called her first-born son Cain ('gotten,' or 'acquired'), she said, 'I have gotten a man from Yahveh.' Apparently, she connected the birth of her son with the immediate fulfillment of the promise that her male seed will eventually bruise the head of the serpent. She was expressing her hope of salvation from the mess she started.

Philo (25 BC - 50 AD) of Alexandria states that " Cain is called Possession, because he thinks he posses all things" (Sacrifices 1.2). The etymology of Cain's name describe him as greedy and the archetype of the rich oppressors of the poor. These would imply that Cain is the beginning of "private property" over against the hunter gatherer society where the Tribe possesed everything, which existed outside of Eden.

Kanah also means “to erect, to found,” and “to create.” In order to farm or ranch Cain needs to “acquire” tools, animals, and the land itself – a new concept in history.The word Qayin from the root QN means to acquire or possess something which also means “to erect, to found,” and “to create.” As we know he went out and built the first city. Cain might also be thought of as one who “creates.” Abel is satisfied to experience the world as it is. Abel just joined the crowd of the non-Adamic world and was satisfied with it, whereas Cain wanted to build, create, and change the world around him. The two were diametrically opposite philosophies. This cannot be solved and the result was the asserter, the creator killed the one who simply goes along.

Abel >>> nothing

In Hebrew Abel means "breath" or "vanity" and is used elsewhere to describe the shortness of human life (Job 7:16; Ps 144:4; Eccl 1:2). Josephus says that the meaning of Abel is "nothing" (Ant. 1.52).

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There is a variant in Josephus which replaces "nothing" (οὐθέν) for "sorrow" (πένθος) and is similarly found in Philo's interpretation of Abel's name (Migration 13.74). Hebel directly translates to Vapor or Breath. So we get "vanity" "acting as vapor," "Meaningless" of "having no substance; being close to nothing." He asserts nothing. He has no Ra to stand against the possessor.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain; And again, she bore his brother Abel. The wording seem to suggest that they were twins. These were the twins born to Adam as soon as they entered the outside world. There is a difference of opinion about this. There are others who hold that Cain and Abel were born in two separate events each with a twin sister. We will see that later.

Cain was a farmer and Abel was shepherd

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Their sacrifices

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Cylinder Seal from ancient Sumer Depicting Sacrifices dating back to around 3000 BC.

feasting (1), offer (2), sacrifice (98), sacrifices (54), sacrificial (1), slaughter (1).

From zabach; sacrifice properly involves a slaughter, The slaughter of hostile nations is also a sacrifice offered by God Himself, in which the vultures devour the flesh of the victims Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 46:10; Ezekiel 39:17 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 39:19; Zephaniah 1:7,8.

If we want to understand the significance of sacrifice we need to know the tribal culture. I had been in the South Sudan and had been involved with the tribes which are both settled agriculturalist (similar to the Cain of the Bible) - the Kuku - and also with the nomadic cattle tribe of Dinka. Among the Kuku the first fruits of the harvest is considered as an offering and brought as a sacrificial offering. Among the Dinkas the cattle is the wealth and it is never slaughtered for food. Only during the special tribal occasions when all the tribe are communing together in dinner will the cows and ox are slaughtered for tribal dinner. During the rite of transition when a boy becomes an adult he is given an ox who 50 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN becomes his permanent friend and practically unite with each other. If an adult commit murder or other serious crime, the restitution is possible only when the person bring his ox in the midst of the tribal gathering and killing it. It is like killing himself. It is in this context that we should be reading "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness." Hebrews 9:22. Even in the Hebrew tradition the sheep to be slaughtered has to be inside the home as part of a member of the household can it be a substitute for the sin of the member of the household.

Thus we can see why Abel brought his choice animals as a sacrifice. Cain brought his produce in the course of time. It is assumed in the Scriptures that the institution of sacrifice is coeval with the race. Abel and Cain are represented as the first among Adamic men to sacrifice; and to them are attributed the two chief classes of oblations: namely, the vegetable or bloodless, and the animal or blood-giving (Gen. iv. 3, 4). We can assume with some confidence that the humanoids outside also had sacrifices. Abel probably knew what it was all about having been with them. Apparently Cain was ignorant about it.

All of a sudden we are confronted with something new - sacrifice or offering brought in by two sons of Adam who joined the earth family recently. The two boys brought a sacrifice to their God. https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/why-didnt-god-respect-cains-offering/

“And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto YHVH. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And YHVH had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell” (Gen. 4:3-5).

God's favorable attitude toward Abel's sacrifice (Gen. iv. 4) is shown in the fact that it was consumed by fire from heaven. This is a haggadic idea known to Theodotion, accepted by the Christians, and found in the works of many Church Fathers, such as Cyril of Alexandria, Jerome, Ephraem Syrus, and Aphraates. In midrashic literature, however, it is found only in later works (Midrash Zuṭṭa, p. 35, ed. Buber, Berlin, 1899).

Cain brought a sacrifice of the fruit of the ground and that was the result of his profession. His offering was a bloodless sacrifice. However, Abel brought forth a bloody sacrifice, and the fat thereof. Usually

51 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN it is said that God accepted Abel because there was blood shed. Christian God is a blood thirsty God. God accepted Abel's sacrifice because it pointed to the Cross. Very often we interpret it somehow in that wrong direction. A just God cannot be satisfied with another innocent substitute life and its blood. (In that sense the substitution theory stand guilty) It is as good as saying when I have committed a crime, I can pick up an innocent man and put him in jail to serve the time instead of me and justice is done. Somehow it does nor look like justice to me. That probably was the basis of the ancient human sacrifices. A just God will be doubly angry with such a sacrifice.

We don’t know whether God gave any instruction regarding the offerings to any of the two sons of Adam or to Adam and Eve. This was a totally new situation and was the first sacrifice at least to the Adamic tribe. The reason thus is to be found in the verse itself. "In the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought the fruit of the ground" These words seem to indicate that it was a casual thing for Cain. He was a farmer, so he brought his product. But it does no indicate a close relationship with God. The fruit of the ground was not any special. On the other hand, Abel's sacrifice is given as "firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof". The selection discloses his care and special relationship.

"And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” (Genesis 4:2b–7)

Again we see God indicating the reason for his rejection though not clearly: "If you do well, will you not be accepted?"

So it has nothing to do with the choice of the vegetable life or animal life nor the blood involved. Elsewhere we read, “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain” (Hebrews 11:4) and “we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous” (1 John 3:11–12).

We do not know why Cain and Abel brought the offering to God in the first place. However there are indication in the Jewish traditional teachings that they were fighting over a girl.

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FIGHTING OVER A GIRL

Cain and Abel must have married their sisters since there were no others within the Adamic race. There are several version of this story.

Cain Abel Lebuda Qelima

Many sources propose that Cain and Abel have been born with female twins . The Syriac "Cave of Treasures" Cain had one twin sister and Abel had one twin sister "And there Adam knew Eve his wife and she became pregnant and bore Cain and Lebuda his sister along with him; and when the children grew Adam knew his wife and she became pregnant again and bore Abel and his sister Qelima along with him. Thus we have two twins - Cain and his twin sister Lebuda ( Aclima) and Abel and his twin sister Qelima (Jumelia). And the children grew Adam said to Eve" Let Cain take Qelima, who was born with Abel and let Abel take Lebuda who was born with Cain. Then Cain said to Eve, his mother, :"I shall take Lebuda, who was born with Abel, and let Abel take my own sister, and let Abel take his own sister". As Abel's twin-sister was the more beautiful, Cain wished to have her for his wife, and sought to get rid of Abel (Pirḳe R. Eliezer, xxi.; Gen. R. xxii. 7, according to Ginzberg's emendation; Epiphanius, "De Hæresi," xl. 5, "Schatzhöhle," ed. Bezold, p. 34; compare, too, "The Book of the Bee," ed. Budge, pp. 26, 27).

Adam told Cain to marry his twin sister to Abel, and he told Abel to marry his twin sister to Cain. Abel was pleased and agreed but Cain refused thinking that he was better than Abel’s sister. Instead he wanted to marry his own sister.

Other tradition has it that Cain had a twin sister and Abel had two sistes being born as triplets - a total of five children!.(Midrash Rabbah Gen. 22:2). The Midrash tells us that Cain was born with a twin sister and Abel was born with two sisters. They each married the sister who was born with them. According to one opinion, it was actually a quarrel over who would get to marry the third sister that led to Cain slaying Abel. According to Rabbi Joshua ben Karha as quoted in Genesis Rabbah, "Only two entered the bed, and seven left it: Cain and his twin sister, Abel and his two twin sisters." Here the problem was who will take the third sister ?

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"… about what was their quarrel? Said R. Huna: “An additional twin was born with Abel, and each claimed her. The one claimed: ‘I will have her, because I am the firstborn’; while the other maintained: ‘I must have her, because she was born with me.’” —Bereshit Rabbah 22:7

They got into fight and Abel, stronger than Cain, overcame him in a struggle between them, but mercifully spared his life. Cain, however, took Abel unawares and, overpowering him, killed him with a stone (Gen. R. xxii. 18)—some say with a cane, or even that he choked him with his fingers (compare Ginzberg, cited below, pp. 229, 230, 298, 299).

So Adam said, “Cain, you and your brother Abel should offer a sacrifice to God. Whichever of the two of you has his sacrifice received by God will have the more right to her.” The place where Abel was killed remained desolate forever, never producing vegetation (Midrash Canticles, ed. Shechter; "Jew. Quart. Rev.," 1894-95, vii. 160. Jerome, "Commentary on Ezekiel," xxvii.18, supported by Jewish tradition, held it to be Damascus ).

Since we do not have much to go on with, we have to stop here.

The first murder.

Cain kills Abel "That which Gathers" kills "Nothingness"

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Genesis 4:9 -10 Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.

THE PUNISHMENTS

Genesis 4:12 gives a two part sentencing for Cain's curse. And now you are  cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength;  you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."… The first concerns the earth that was cursed by Abel's blood. It will not yield its fertility to Cain. Should Cain attempt to farm the land, the earth would not yield its produce for him. Since Cain was an agriculturalist this meant that he will have to leave that. .( נד :and a wanderer (Hebrew ( נע :The second part of the curse marks Cain as a fugitive (Hebrew fugitive" and "wanderer", is unique in the Hebrew"נע ונד The combination of these Hebrew words Bible. Modern interpretations of the Hebrew verse 12 suggest that Cain went on to live a nomadic lifestyle and that he was also excluded from the family unit.

In the Septuagint, the emphasis on Cain's curse is dramatically increased by the combination of the Greek participles στένων καὶ τρέμων ("groaning and shaking upon the earth"). Syriac Christianity interprets the Greek version to mean that Cain experienced epileptic fits. Philo interprets the Greek

55 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN verse as an allegory for Cain's fear. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Targums translate the same verse to mean that Cain feared being "an exile and an unstable man".

The second punishment is banishment. "You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth." (RSV, Genesis 4:12b) Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me. (RSV, Genesis 4:14)

Even today in the places like South Sudan where tribal system is in place no wandering, individual is accepted within the tribe. In cultures like the Kuku tribe of Sudan, they do not have capital punishment. Instead they are excommunicated from the tribe. Because of the constant war between the various tribes any intruding foreigner is considered as a cattle thief and they will be killed The excommunication is equivalent to a death sentence. This exactly is what Cain is saying. Cain was given a sign which protected him being killed by the people of the tribes where he may finds himself.

This practice was originally used by “African tribal groups, scarification is a decorative form primarily intended to indicate one’s position in a social structure.” (Sanders, 8)” in a particular tribe,

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There are identifying marks for each tribe. In times of war these are important. Even if he is lost and other tribes find him they will think twice before killing him. It gives his identity. Something like this was done to Cain to protect him. It annouced from which tribe he came - "Adamsons the sons of God". Will anyone dare to kill him?

Some ancient rabbis believed that Cain grew horns on his head, to protect himself. Others suggest that he grew into a giant. Yet others believed that he was marked with leprosy. But even more believe that it was not a physical mark, but that the sun shown on Cain wherever he went, so that all would know that he was under God’s protection.

Tribal marks serve to protect a person and indicate to which tribe he belongs; each member of the tribe was thus safeguarded by such a mark. The special sign of Yahweh could, therefore, have identified Cain and would have become the tribal mark of the Kenites,

The ancient Hebrew pictograph for the letter Aleph which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is an Ox head, meaning strength or God, The pictograph for the letter Tav which is the last letter in

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Hebrew alphabet is two crossed sticks, meaning a mark or covenant. Hebrew reads from right to left. The above symbol then corresponds to the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The first letter symbolizing God has no sound. It is just an exhale and the last letter was like a cross and sounds th. Thus the sign is read as oth or eth Therefore, when Jesus says, “I am the Aleph and the Tav,” what He is saying is that He is the MARK of GOD, or God’s signature.

It perhaps refers to a tribal mark of the Kenites connected with their worship of Yhwh (Stade,"Z.A.T.W."; Guthe, "Herzog," 1901, s.v.). It is possible that the "mark" God placed on Cain was the letter tav and may also be a sign that God was in covenant relationship with Cain.

Other interpretations include: the mark of Cain is dark skin; Circumcision (Isidore of Seville (560–636)); a hooked nose; horns, Leprosy; A guarding dog; the tetragrammaton on forehead; Sign of Tov on forehead (this looks like a cross) and many others. http://www.bibleodyssey.net/en/people/related-articles/mark-of-cain Eva Mroczek, "Mark of Cain",

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/articles_cainandabel.html

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APPENDIX

THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: CAIN AND ABEL

https://www.icit-digital.org/articles/the-philosophy-of-history-cain-and-abel

by Ali Shariati Mazinan

Ali Shariati Mazinani ( 1933 – 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the "ideologue of the Iranian Revolution" (Translated from Islamshinasi, Vol. I, pp. 68-85.)

The story of Cain and Abel is therefore the source for our philosophy of history, just as that of Adam is the source for our philosophy of man. The war between Cain and Abel is the war between two opposing fronts that have existed throughout history, in the form of a historical dialectic. History, therefore, like man himself, consists of a dialectical process. The contradiction begins with the killing of Abel by Cain. Now Abel, in my opinion, represents the age of a pasture‑ based economy, and Thereafter a permanent war began so that the whole of history became the stage for a struggle between the party of Cain the killer, and Abel, his victim, or, in other words, the ruler and the ruled. Abel the pastoralist was killed by Cain the landowner; the period of common ownership of the sources of production‑ the age of pastoralism, hunting and fishing‑ the spirit of brotherhood and true faith, came to an end and was replaced by the age of agriculture and the establishment of the system of private ownership, together with religious trickery and transgression against the rights of others. Abel disappeared, and Cain came to the forefront of history, and there he still lives.

I have deduced the foregoing from the fact that when Adam proposes to his sons that they should each offer a sacrifice to God in order to resolve their dispute‑ Cain having fallen in love with the beautiful betrothed of his brother‑ Cain places a handful of withered yellow corn on the altar, while Abel brings a young and valuable

59 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN red-haired camel. I have therefore considered the latter as representative of pastoralism and the former as representative of agriculture. History tells that in the age of pastoralism, which was also the age of fishing and hunting, nature was the source of all production (and in the story the camel represents this system of production). Forests, seas, deserts and rivers‑ these resources were at the disposal of the whole tribe, and the tools of production were mostly men's hands and arms. If in addition to these they had a few simple tools, they were objects anyone could make and own.

Monopolistic or individual ownership of the sources of production (water and land) or the tools of production (cows, plows, etc.) did not exist. Everything was equally at the disposal of everyone. The spirit and the norms of society, paternal respect, steadfastness in fulfilling moral obligations, absolute and inviolable obedience to the limitations of collective life, innate purity and sincerity of the religious conscience, a pacific spit it of love and forbearance ‑ these were among the moral characteristics of man in that system of production, and we may take Abel as representative of them.

When man made the acquaintance of agriculture, his life, society arid whole make‑ up became exposed to a profound revolution, which, in my view, constitutes the greatest revolution in history. It was a revolution that produced a new man, a powerful and evil man, as well as the age of civilization and discrimination.

The agricultural system resulted in a restricting of the sources of production present in nature. It brought about the emergence of advanced tools of production, complex relations of production; and since arable land, unlike forests and seas, could not be freely at the disposition of all, the need appeared for the first time in human life for men to arrogate part of nature to their own selves and deprive others of it‑ in a word, private ownership. Before this, the individual had not existed in human society; the tribe itself was the individual. But now, with the coming of agriculture, that unitary society, where all men were like the brothers in a single household, was divided. The first day that a piece of land that had been owned in common was taken from nature and became the exclusive right of one person to the exclusion of all others, no law yet existed under the name of law, religion or inheritance; it was purely a matter of force. The strength of the more powerful members of the tribe in the system of pastoral ownership had served to protect the tribe and to increase its social prestige, or its sustenance from hunting and fishing; it fulfilled both of these functions for the sake of the tribe. But now it became the sole source for the determination of rights," the measure of private consumption, and the primary factor in the acquisition of private ownership. At this critical point in history, the exact opposite of Marx's theory applies; it is not ownership that is a factor in the acquisition of power, but the converse. Power and coercion were the factor that first bestowed ownership on the individual. Power brought about private ownership, and then in turn, private ownership be-stowed permanence on power and strengthened it by making it something legal and natural. 60 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

Private ownership bisected the unitary society. When acquisition and private possession became the norm, nobody was willing to content himself abstemiously with the amount he genuinely needed. In any event, it was left to every individual to determine the extent of his need. People therefore ceased the practice of acquiring property when they were obliged to rather than when they wished to. By contrast, under the previous system, the system of Abel or of collective ownership, men had engaged in hunting and fishing only to the extent of their needs. Nature, free and generous, was always at their disposal. Labor was merely a means for the satisfaction of need, and whoever was more skilled in production gained more. But now the open and abundant spread of nature‑ its forests and seas- - had been left behind and men crowded around the poverty- stricken and pitiable meal offered them by tillage and land. In greed and acquisitiveness they began to struggle with each other. In this new form of social life, the eagles and the vultures‑ the crows, in the story of Cain‑ broke the wings of the weaker birds and drove them away. Previously, society had been like a flock of migratory birds, moving across deserts and down river banks and the shores of the oceans in harmony and unison. But now for the sake of the carrion of private property and the desire of monopoly, the birds, full of savage hatred for each other, were pecking and clawing at each other.

Finally, the human family that had been overflowing with freedom, peace, tranquility and vitality, became transformed into two warring and contradictory camps. On one side was a minority that possessed land in excess of need and in excess of its ability to work it, and that therefore needed the labor of others. On the other side was a majority that, on the contrary, possessed only hunger and the ability to work, but had neither land nor tools. Under the new social system, the fate of the majority was clear‑ slavery. The class now subjected to slavery had nothing‑ no land, no water, no honor, no ancestry, no morality, no dignity, no thought, no art, no learning, no value, no rights, no truth, no spirit, no meaning, no education‑ in short, nothing in this world or the next.

For all these things of which they were deprived depended on land and the soil, on the fruits that orchards and fields yielded. These things were therefore the monopoly of the class that possessed the sources of production, riot only material but also non-material. The class that did not perform menial tasks had the opportunity and capital needed to engage in education and the cultivation of abstract culture, literature, science and the arts. The two opposing classes used to live in a uniform society, animated by a single spirit, a single sentiment, a single concept of honor and dignity‑ that of the tribe. They used to venture together into the forest empty‑ handed, and out to the ocean. The riches of nature, like the air surrounding them which they inhaled together, or like the landscapes encompassing them which they beheld together, were at the disposal of both of them, at the disposal of the tribe. They were equal with each other, and therefore they were brothers. They were both sons of Adam, and Adam was from clay. Now, because of the carrion of property, they had drawn apart 61 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN and were facing each other in hostility, and enmity prevailed between them. The ties of kin-ship had been replaced by the bonds of servitude; equality had been sacrificed to discrimination, arid brotherhood, to fratricide. Religion had become a means of deception and the acquisition of material benefit, and nothing else. The spirit of humanity, conciliatoriness, arid compassion, gave way to the spirit of hatred, rivalry, the worship of wealth, acquisitiveness, desire for monopoly, deception, coercion, oppression, self-worship, cruelty, murder, transgression, the desire for domination, the claim of superiority, the creation of privilege, the despising of men, the killing of the weak, the trampling under-foot of everything and everyone for the sake of property, the killing of brothers, the torturing of fathers, and even the deceiving of God.

We can thus attain a profound understanding of the contradiction between the two types‑ Abel, the man of faith, peaceable and self-sacrificing, and Cain, the worshipper of passions, the transgressor, the fratricide‑ by means of psychological analysis and on the basis of a scientific arid sociological examination of their environment, their occupations and their class. We know that they had in common their race, their father and mother, their upbringing arid family, their environment arid religion. In that original environment, we assume that human society had not yet been fully formed, and that different intellectual environments, varying cultural atmospheres and social groups had not yet come into being. We cannot therefore say that each of the two brothers was subject to the influence of differing religious or educational factors, at least not to the extent that they should have grown up as exact opposite, each symbolizing a certain type.

Both scientific and logical method demand that when two phenomena, though similar in every respect, develop in differing or opposing directions, we should draw up a list of all the causes, factors and conditions that affect each of them. We will then be able to delete all that they hold in common and arrive at the factor or factors that are in opposition or contradiction. The only factor that differentiates the two brothers from each other in the story consists of then different occupations. These differing occupations set the two brothers in a particular economic and social position; they have contradictory types of work, structures of production, and economic systems. Our theory is clearly supported by the exact correspondence, on the one hand, between the type of Abel and the class psychology and the social behavior of man in the period of primitive socialism, of free pastoral hunting and fishing economy; and on the other hand, between the type of Cain and the social and class characteristics of man in the period of class society, the system of slavery and master psychology.

No, the commentators on the Qur'an and other religious scholars have said in explanation of the narrative concerning Cain and Abel that the purpose for its revelation was the condemnation of murder. But this is very superficial and oversimplifies the matter. Even if my theory is not correct, the narrative of the two brothers cannot be as slight in meaning and purpose as they hold it to be. The Abrahamic religions, especially Islam, depict this story as the first great event that occurs on the threshold of human life in this world. It is not credible 62 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN that their only purpose in so doing should be the mere condemnation of murder. Whatever may be the underlying sense of the narrative, it is surely far more than a simple ethical tale, yielding the conclusion, "it has thus become clear to us now that murder is an evil deed, so we must try never to commit this shameful act. Let us avoid doing it, particularly to our brothers!"

In my opinion, the murder of Abel at the hands of Cain represents a great development, a sudden swerve in the course of history, the most important event to have occurred in all human life. It interprets and explains that event in a most profound fashion‑ scientifically, sociologically, and with reference to class. The story concerns the end of primitive communism, the disappearance of man's original system of equality and brother-hood, expressed in the hunting and fishing system of productivity (equated with Abel), and its replacement by agricultural production, the creation of private ownership, the formation of the first class society, the system of discrimination and exploitation, the worship of wealth and lack of true faith, the beginning of enmity, rivalry, greed, plunder, slavery and fratricide (equated with Cain). …….

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Cain's Punishment was twofold in effect.

1. He will cease to be a settled farmer

2. He will be like those outside of Eden - a wanderer and be a part of the children of men. Since he does not belong to any of their tribe, he will have to move from tribe to tribe or make his own tribe. Because of the sign God put on him, no body will kill him.

At Cain's appeal Yhwh "made to him a sign, lest any one finding him should smite him." Cain went forth to the land of Nod Wandering), east of Eden; his wife bore him a son Enoch, after whom he named a city which he had built.

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THE LAND OF NOD

Gen. 4:16-17 (KJV) And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

All we are told is that the Land of Nod is located "on the east of Eden" . usually translated as "vagabond", in Genesis 4:12. In the ,(נָ֖ד) "Nod" closely resembles the word "nad" Septuagint's rendering of the same verse God curses Cain to τρέμων, "trembling", which would imply that Cain wandered from place to place in fear and trembling - in fear that someone will kill him.

:Nod as follows (נוּד) This is supported by Gesenius who defines

TO BE MOVED, TO BE AGITATED used of a reed shaken by the wind, 1Ki.14:15; hence to wander, to be a fugitive, Jer. 4:1; Gen. 4:12, 14; Ps.56:9; to flee, Ps. 11:1; Jer. 49:30.

Nod is said to be outside of the presence or face of God. Origen defined Nod as the land of trembling and wrote that it symbolized the condition of all who forsake God. In the English tradition Nod was sometimes described as a desert inhabited only by

65 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN ferocious beasts or monsters. Others interpreted Nod as dark or even underground—away from the face of God. God said that Cain would be a “vagabond in the earth” (Gen. 3:14), and that is exactly what the term “Land of Nod” means: the land of “wandering”, or the land of “vagrancy.” So, Cain does indeed become a wandering vagabond.

The land of Nod.—i.e., of wandering. Knobel supposes it was China, but this is too remote. Read without vowels ND, the word becomes India. All that is certain is that Cain emigrated into Eastern Asia, and as none of Noah’s descendants, in the table of nations in Genesis 10, are described as having travelled eastward, many with Philippson and Knobel regard the Mongol race as the offspring of Cain. But verse 17 tells us that he “built a city.” (Ellicott's Commentary) Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says that the " land of Nod—of flight or exile—thought by many to have been Arabia-Petræa—which was cursed to sterility on his account."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible says: Evidently Cain joined the profession of his brother Abel all those years. Cain's descendants may by this time have increased considerably in numbers so that he became the great patriarch and so decided to settle down and build an enclosed space with fortified dwellings.. In fact in most nomadic tribes (like the Dinkas of South Sudan) have their patriarch and matriarch dwell in settlement when they are old,. while their children took care of the cattle. However they know exactly where their children tend their cattle. This is the picture we see also when Jacob send his son Joseph to his elder brothers in the grazing sites.

Inter tribal warfare and stealing of cattle by one tribe by another are part of the nomadic life. As a result a passer by is always looked at with suspicion.

Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews (c. AD 93) that Cain continued his wickedness in Nod: resorting to violence and robbery; establishing weights and measures; transforming human culture from innocence into craftiness and deceit; establishing property lines; and building a city.

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CHAPTER FIVE CAIN AND SETH

Gen 5:3 -4 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

Seth is mentioned was born in the image of Adam. Adam was created in the image of YHVH but that image was tarnished by the assertion of selfish ego Ra the evil by eating of the fruit of the tree of Good and Evil in violation of the commandment of YHVH. Thus Seth held the potential of being like the Son of God (from whom eventually Jesus was born) while he held also the sinful tendencies of Adam asserting the ego. This is the original sin that is being transmitted genetically through DNA. This was also in Cain. This is why God advised Cain: Gen 4:7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? 67 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." Thus together with the image of God and the image of the fallen nature of Adam, with the freewill even Cain could have overcome the sin. This will then give two types offspring through Adam. 1. The Sons of God who overcomes yetser Hara - the evil tendency like Seth 2. The Sons of Man (Sons of Adam)who do not overcome yetser Hara and continue in sin like Cain

Here are the two lines of Adam family given in the Bible. We do not have any details regarding the other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. We should also be aware that even though we are given only one of the sons in each generaions, there were certainly there were other sons and daughters in each. Seth and Cain were brothers and the two families - the cousins even shared their names. There is no doubt they kept in contact. Evidently they intermarried and also with the other families which are no mentioned in the Bible by name - with the families of other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. They formed one family where the Sethites followed agriculture while Cainites followed nomadic cattle and sheep breeding

http://www.creationmoments.com/content/how-many-children-did-adam-and-eve-have "Living over 900 years means living ten times longer than we do today. Proportionately, the female period of fecundity – today 30 to 35 years – would then be about 350 years. At a rate of only one child every seven years, this would result in 50 children for Adam's immediate family. Interestingly, two ancient books written about the time of Christ but not having the authority of inspired Scripture confirm these figures. The Book of Jubilees, whose author is unknown, was written in the second century B.C. and states that Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Paradise seven years [p.49]. Then Eve gave birth to her first child, Cain, between the ages of 64-70, or the same numbers as the age of the Earth, anno mundi. Eve's second child, Abel, was born seven years later – between the years 71-77 anno mundi

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[p.51]. The total number of Adam's children is not given in this work; however, it is found as a footnote in The Works of Josephus where it states: "The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was 33 sons and 23 daughters." In view of their longevity, these appear to be reasonable figures while it would have to be said that, sinners though they were, Adam and Eve had faithfully obeyed God's first commission to: "be fruitful and multiply …" [Genesis 1:28].

References: Charles, Robert Henry [translator]. 2005. The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis. Original publishers: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, UK. Published 2005 by: Ibis Press, Berwick, Maine. Whiston, William [translator]. The Works of Josephus. Hendrickson Publishers [First AD 93, this ed.1804] Book 1, Chapter 2, verse 3 footnote."

Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi) refers to Seth as the ancestor of Noah and hence the father of all mankind, all other humans having perished in the Great Flood.

In gnosticism, Seth is seen as a replacement given by God for Abel, whom Cain had slain. It is said that late in life, Adam gave Seth secret teachings that would become the kabbalah. The Zohar refers to Seth as "ancestor of all the generations of the tzaddikim" (Hebrew: righteous ones).[6]

According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in 130 AM. According to Aggadah, he had 33 sons and 23 daughters. According to the Seder Olam Rabbah, he died in 1042 AM.

According to Josephus In the Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that his descendants invented the wisdom of the heavenly bodies, and built the "pillars of the sons of Seth", two pillars inscribed with many scientific discoveries and inventions, notably in astronomy. They were built by Seth's descendants based on Adam's prediction that the world would be destroyed at one time by fire and another time by global flood, in order to protect the discoveries and be remembered after the destruction. One was composed of brick, and the other of stone, so that if the pillar of brick should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected. Josephus reports that the pillar of stone remained in the land of Siriad in his day.

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In the days of Jared ("descent") the Sethites ("the sons of God") went down the hill to join the Cainites, heedless of the warnings of Jared; and none of those who walked in the path of sin could come back. This was repeated in the days of Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah: all the admonitions of these saintly leaders did not prevent the fall of the sons of Seth, for whom the daughters of Cain lusted (see The Book of Adam and Eve, transl. by S. C. Malan, 1882, pp. 115-147; Dillmann, "Das Christliche Adambuch," 1853, pp. 82-101; Bezold, "Die Schatzhöhle," i. 10-23). Josephus ("Ant." i. 2, § 2; i. 3, § 1) also speaks of the excessive wickedness of the posterity of Cain, which grew in vehemence with every generation; while the posterity of Seth remained virtuous during seven generations, after which the fall of the angels ensued and they were enticed by their gigantic offspring. From him were descended Lamech, who is recorded as having married two wives (First Polygamy); Jabal, who instituted nomad life; Jubal, who invented music; and Tubal-Cain, the inventor of metal weapons

Left: Sumerian bas relief depicting musicians playing various instruments. The steatite relief was excavated at ancient Adab, a city of ancient Sumer. The bas relief dates back to around 3000 BC. There are two harp players, a drummer, a trumpet player, and a conducter with a leaf baton.

Genesis 4:21: And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Right: Copper Mace Heads from Beersheba 3000 BC Period.

Genesis 4:21: And Zillah, she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron:

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DEATH OF CAIN

http://www.aish.com/jl/b/eb/ca/48950551.html

A. Apocryphal Accounts of the Death of Cain: Cain - Sevenfold

This 12th-century column capital from the Cathedral of Saint-Lazre in France depicts Lamech hunting with his son Tubal-Cain. They accidentally shoot and kill Cain, mistaking him for a wild animal. Photo: Cathedral Museum of St. Lazare, Autun, Burgundy, France/The Bridgeman Art Library. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/what-happened-to-cain-in-the-bible/

When God talked about "sevenfold vengeance" for Cain, He wasn't talking about punishing Cain's murderer. Instead, God was talking about punishing Cain himself. He was promising that Cain himself would be killed in vengeance for Abel's murder -- but that this would occur only after a seven generations. Lamech admits to having killed a man in Genesis 4:23–24. Ancient interpreters believed that this passage sheds light on who killed Cain in the Bible, and they identified the man Lamech killed in verse 23 with Cain.

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According to the Midrash, here is what happened:

The Book of Jasher, 2:26-30*

26 And Lamech was old and advanced in years, and his eyes were dim that he could not see, and Tubal Cain, his son, was leading him and it was one day that Lamech went into the field and Tubal Cain his son was with him, and whilst they were walking in the field, Cain the son of Adam advanced towards them; for Lamech was very old and could not see much, and Tubal Cain his son was very young.

27 And Tubal Cain told his father to draw his bow, and with the he smote Cain, who was yet far off, and he slew him, for he appeared to them to be an animal.

28 And the arrows entered Cain's body although he was distant from them, and he fell to the ground and died.

29 And the Lord requited Cain's evil according to his wickedness, which he had done to his brother Abel, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken.

30 And it came to pass when Cain had died, that Lamech and Tubal went to see the animal which they had slain, and they saw, and behold Cain their grandfather was fallen dead upon the earth. ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/2.htm )

*The Second Book of Adam and Eve, 13:5-12*

5 Meanwhile Cain, ever since God had cast him off, and had cursed him with trembling and terror, could neither settle nor find rest in any one place; but wandered from place to place.

6 In his wanderings he came to Lamech's wives, and asked them about him. They said to him, "He is in the field with the cattle."

7 Then Cain went to look for him; and as he came into the field, the young shepherd heard the noise he made, and the cattle herding together from before him.

8 Then said he to Lamech, "O my lord, is that a wild beast or a robber?"

9 And Lamech said to him, "Make me understand which way he looks, when he comes up."

10 Then Lamech bent his bow, placed an arrow on it, and fitted a stone in the sling, and when Cain came out from the open country, the shepherd said to Lamech, "Shoot, behold, he is coming."

11 Then Lamech shot at Cain with his arrow and hit him in his side. And Lamech struck him with a stone from his sling, that fell upon his face, and knocked out both his eyes; then Cain fell at once and died.

12 Then Lamech and the young shepherd came up to him, and found him lying on the ground. And the young shepherd said to him, "It is Cain our grandfather, whom thou hast killed, O my lord!" (see online (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe097.htm)

There is another version of the death of Cain. The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters.

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Jubilees 4:9 says: And Cain took Awan his sister to be his wife and she bare him Enoch at the close of the fourth jubilee. [190-196 A.M.] And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, [197 A.M.] houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch.

In the same chapter of Jubilees, we’re told his crime as finally being atoned for when he met death by his house tumbling on him.

Jubilees 4:31 At the close of this jubilee Cain was killed after him in the same year; for his house fell upon him and he died in the midst of his house, and he was killed by its stones; for with a stone he had killed Abel, and by a stone was he killed in righteous judgment.

SETHIAN LINE SETHIAN LINE SPAN OF LIFE

These are only the first borns starting Seth For each patriarch there were several other children both sons and daughters which are not mentioned. Remember the life time of each was slightly less than a thousand years. Thousand years for God is like a day. In that time scale all Adamic generations died within a "day".

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2 Peter 3:8–9 ‘But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.’

Book of Jubilees, gives the wives' names for the Sethite line. We get the sethite line details as follows:

Patriarch Life Span Wife Ageatbirth years of successor Adam 930 Eve 130 Seth 912 Azura 105 Enos 905 Noam 90 Cainan 910 Mualaleth 70 Mahalaleel 895 Dinah 65 Jared 962 Baraka 162 Enoch 365 Edna 65 Methuselah 969 Edna 167 Lamech 777 Betenos 182 Noah 950 Emzara 600

THE MESSAGE IN THE NAMES Ray C. Stedman in his book Understanding Man has analyzed the meaning of the names of the descendants in the line of Seth to Noah and gives the following explanation: "A way of escape [for man] is indicated again in a most fascinating way in this chapter by the meaning of the names listed. There is some difference among authorities as to the meaning of these names, depending upon the root from which they are judged to be taken. But one authority gives a most interesting sequence of meanings. The list begins with Seth, which means 'Appointed.' Enosh, his son, means 'Mortal;' and his son, Kenan, means 'Sorrow.' His son Mahalalel, means 'The Blessed God.' He named his boy Jared which means 'Came Down,' and his boy, Enoch, means 'Teaching.' Methuselah, as we saw, means 'His death shall bring;' Lamech means 'Strength,' and Noah, 'Comfort.' Now put that all together:

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ENOCH THE METATRON At age 65, Enoch became the father of a son whom he named Methuselah, a name which means "when he dies it (the flood) shall come." Enoch went on to walk with God another 300 years and was taken up ("translated") into heaven by God without dying. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. [Genesis 5:24 KJV.] This Enoch, whose flesh was turned to flame, his veins to fire, his eye-lashes to flashes of lightning, his eye-balls to flaming torches, and whom God placed on a throne next to the throne of glory, received after this heavenly transformation the name Metatron.

“I made honor, majesty, and glory his garment; beauty, pride, and strength his outer robe, and a kingly crown . . .I bestowed on him some of my majesty, some of my magnificence, some of the splendor of my glory, which is on the throne of glory, and I called him by MY NAME, The Lesser YHWH, Prince of the Divine Presence, knower of secrets.’ Every secret I have made known to him in love, every mystery I have made known to him in uprightness." “Appendix to 3 Enoch,”

The Zohar calls Metatron "the Youth", a title previously used in 3 Enoch, where it appears to mean "servant". It identifies him as the angel that led the people of Israel through the wilderness after their

75 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN exodus from Egypt (again referring to Exodus 23:21, see above), and describes him as a heavenly priest. Methuselah survived to age 969, the oldest man who ever lived. True to prediction, the flood came the year Methuselah died.

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CHAPTER SIX

NEPHILIM AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN

When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. — Genesis 6:1–4

Jewish Publication Society simply transliterated the Hebrew 'nephilim' as "Nephilim," King James Version translated the term as "giants." http://www.like2do.com/learn?s=Nephilim http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/giants.htm https://christiananswers.net/dictionary/giants.html Giants

There are several groups of giants mentioned in the Bible.

Nephilim, meaning "violent" or "causing to fall" ( Genesis 6:4 ).

Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nephilim NEPHILIM nef'-i-lim (nephilim): This word, translated "giants" in the King James Version, but retained in the Revised Version (British and American), is found in two passages of the Old Testament--one in Genesis 6:4, relating to the antediluvians; the other in Numbers 13:33, relating to the sons of Anak in Canaan. In the former place

77 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN the Nephilim are not necessarily to be identified with the children said to be borne "the daughters of men" to "the sons of God" (Genesis 6:2,4); indeed, they seem to be distinguished from the latter as upon the earth before this unholy commingling took place (see SONS OF GOD). But it is not easy to be certain as to the interpretation of this strange passage. In the second case they clearly represent men of gigantic stature, in comparison with whom the Israelites felt as if they were "grasshopers." This agrees with Genesis 6:4, "the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." Septuagint, therefore, was warranted in translating by gigantes.--James Orr

These were the violent tyrants of those days, those who fell upon others. The word may also be derived from a root signifying "wonder," and hence "monsters" or "prodigies." In Numbers 13:33 this name is given to a Canaanitish tribe, a race of large stature, "the sons of Anak." The Revised Version, in these passages, simply transliterates the original, and reads "Nephilim." 1. Rephaim, a race of giants ( Deuteronomy 3:11 ) who lived on the east of Jordan, from whom Og was descended. They were probably the original inhabitants of the land before the immigration of the Canaanites. They were conquered by Chedorlaomer ( Genesis 14:5 ), and their territories were promised as a possession to Abraham ( 15:20 ). The Anakim, Zuzim, and Emim were branches of this stock. Rephaim - comes from the root rapha which means 'spirits', 'shades' Gen. 14:5 In Job 26:5 (RSV, "they that are deceased;" is in the marginal reading., "the shades," the "Rephaim") and Isaiah 14:9 this Hebrew word is rendered (A.V.) "dead." It means here "the shades," Psalms 88:10 ; Proverbs 2:18 ; 9:18 ; 21:16 Isaiah 26:14 .: in all these places the Revised Version margin. has "the shades." This may be understood as "the departed spirits in Sheol"" which does not make sense.. Isaiah 21:16 Isaiah 21:18 Isaiah 21:20 Isaiah 21:33 ,1 Chronicles 20:5 1 Chronicles 20:6 1 Chronicles 20:8 ; Deuteronomy 2:11 Deuteronomy 2:20 ; 3:13 ; Joshua 15:8 "the giant" is (A.V.) the rendering of the singular form ha Raphah , which may possibly be the name of the father of the four giants referred to here, or of the founder of the Rephaim.

3. Anakim ( Deuteronomy 2:10 Deuteronomy 2:11 Deuteronomy 2:21 ; Joshua 11:21 Joshua 11:22 ; Joshua 14:12 Joshua 14:15 ; called "sons of Anak," Numbers 13:33 ; "children of Anak," 13:22 ; Joshua 15:14 ), a nomad race of giants descended from Arba ( Joshua 14:15 ), the father of Anak, that

78 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN dwelt in the south of Palestine near Hebron ( Genesis 23:2 ; Joshua 15:13 ). They were a Cushite tribe of the same race as the Philistines and the Egyptian shepherd kings. David on several occasions encountered them ( 2 Samuel 21:15-22 ). From this race sprung Goliath ( 1 Samuel 17:4 ). Remnants of the Anakim remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod even in the time of Joshua (1500-1390 B.C.) as seen in Joshua 11:21 "And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." 11:22"There wasnoneofthe Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained remnants."

Deu 2:10, Deu 2:11, Deu 2:21; Jos 11:21, Jos 11:22; Jos 14:12, Jos 14:15; Num 13:33; Num 13:22; Jos 15:14 ,

4. 'Emin, a warlike tribe of the ancient Canaanites. They were "great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims" ( Genesis 14:5 ; Deuteronomy 2:10 Deuteronomy 2:11 ).

5. Zamzummim (q.v.), Deuteronomy 2:20 so called by the Amorites. Zuzim- the evil ones, roaming things Gen. 14:5 Zamzummims - the evil plotters, Deut. 2:20 Zophim - watchers, angels who descended Num. 23

6. Gibbor ( Job 16:14 ), a mighty one, i.e., a champion or hero. In its plural form (gibborim) it is rendered "mighty men" ( 2 Samuel 23:8-39 ; 1 Kings 1:8 ; 1 Chronicles 11:9-47 ; 29:24 .)

Who are these sons of God? Who are these daughters of men?

There are all sorts of explanations:

All early sources refer to the "sons of Elohim" or 'sons od heaven" as angels. From the third century BCE onwards, references are found in the Enochic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls the (Genesis Apocryphon, the Damascus Document, 4Q180), Jubilees, the Testament of Reuben, 2 Baruch, Josephus, and the book of Jude (compare with 2 Peter 2).

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1 Enoch 7:2 "And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children." That the Sons of God in Gen 6:2 and 4 are fallen angels is confirmed by both Peter and Jude in the New Testament (CP 1Pe 3:18-20 with 2Pe 2:4-5). Peter refers to them as the spirits in prison in 1Pe 3:19, and the angels that sinned in 2Pe 2:4, while Jude describes them as "the angels that kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation .... giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" (see Jude 6-7).

These evidently follows the early interpretations of the Jewish tradition."the sons of God" is used twice outside of Genesis chapter 6, in the Book of Job (1:6 and 2:1) where the phrase explicitly references angels.

The Septuagint manuscript Codex Alexandrinus reading of Genesis 6:2 renders this phrase as "the angels of God" while Codex Vaticanus reads "sons".

The Greek, Aramaic, and main Ge'ez manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees obtained in the 19th century and held in the British Museum and Vatican Library, connect the origin of the Nephilim with the fallen angels, and in particular with the egrḗgoroi (watchers). Samyaza, an angel of high rank, is described as leading a rebel sect of angels in a descent to earth to have sexual intercourse with human females:

The Book of Enoch, by R.H. Charles, [1917], at sacred-texts.com

CHAPTER VI.

1. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' 4. And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ‑ in the days‑ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz,

80 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.

CHAPTER VII.

1.And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

According to these texts, the fallen angels who begat the Nephilim were cast into Tartarus (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6) (Greek Enoch 20:2),] a place of "total darkness". However, Jubilees also states that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to remain after the flood, as demons, to try to lead the human race astray until the final Judgment. There are also allusions to these descendants in the deuterocanonical books of Judith 16:6, Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26–28, and Wisdom of Solomon 14:6, and in the non-deuterocanonical 3 Maccabees 2:4.

Orthodox Judaism has taken a stance against the idea that Genesis 6 refers to angels or that angels could intermarry with men. Shimon bar Yochai pronounced a curse on anyone teaching this idea. Rashi and Nachmanides followed this. Pseudo-Philo, Biblical Antiquities 3:1–3 may also imply that the "sons of God" were human. Consequently, most Jewish commentaries and translations describe the Nephilim as being from the offspring of "sons of nobles", rather than from "sons of God" or "sons of angels". This is also the rendering suggested in the Targum Onqelos, Symmachus and the Samaritan Targum which read "sons of the rulers", where Targum Neophyti reads "sons of the judges". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim In fact, Jesus taught that angels do not marry (Mark 12:25). Mark 12: 24 Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

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25 When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Matt 22:30 for in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of god in heaven. Sons of Elohim; Sons of Elim; Sons of Elahin; Angels of God are hence beings who have no Ra or self centered desires and are fixed in it. Hence we can with Jesus be certain that these beings who came down out of lust of human women were not these angels. They are devoted to be servants of those who are Sons of God which I describe in the next section. Hebrews 1:14Are not the angels ministering spirits, sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? However major indications leads to Bene Elohim = Sons of Elohim as in Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Job 38:7 Bene El is seen in Deuteronomy 32:8 and in two Dead Sea Scrolls (4QDtj and 4QDtq); "Angels of God" (αγγελων θεου) is found in the LXX (sometimes "sons of God" or even "sons of Israel"); Psalms 29:1 and Psalms 89:6 give bənê ēlîm= sons of Elim Daniel 3:25: bar elahin - son of the gods.

CLASS OF BEINGS CALLED SONS OF GOD

Yet there is another group of beings called "Sons of God" in the tree of life who comes next to El and who form part of the Elohim who are partakers with God in fullness in God's creative process. Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. These are beings who were created by God and given the full freedom of choice, who matured in time and chose to be holy and part of the whole creation with a balanced yetser HaRa (self assertion I AM) and yetser HaTov (sacrificial love). Some interpreters consider these Sons of God who formed the family of God and was practically part of the 'Royalty' of the 'Kingdom of Heaven' 82 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN

Adam and Eve were created to become part of this group as Sons of God. There must be many other beings all around the cosmos in all dimensions of existence just like the Adam and Eve of Eden. These Sons of God grow up into maturity with the discipline of the Father and the Holy Spirit and in the companionship of the begotten Son(Eldest Brother) and having reached their maturity were allowed to eat of the tree of life unto eternity by connecting directly to the infinite source of Power - Mother Holy Spirit. They are born not only of the flesh (according to the dimensions in which they are created) and born again in the Spirit to form part of the Kingdom of God as Sons and Daughters of God. It was during the process of the disciplined life that Adam and Eve they fell away. One day they will also brought into this category through a rebirth. If Adam and Eve did not disobey they would have grown into the full sonship of God with a physical material body and the Spirit of God and immortality. Man has a Physical body, Soul (the I AM of man) and the Spirit within that connects him with the Holy Spirit. There might be other creations prior to Adam and Eve in the material realm who had attained the full status of the sonship.

These are not Angels nor Demons. They are also not just spirits without bodies. Imagine Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, living in constant companionship with the Father, receiving and forming the character under the guidance of the Trinity with complete obedience and making right choices. They would have eaten of the tree of life and would have become fully part of the Sons of God. They would still have a physical body. Humanity requires a physical body. This is why we teach resurrection and not reincarnation. Man will rise again from the dead with a full uncaying body as he joins the Kingdom of God. After receiving the fruit of the tree of life, they still posses the total freedom of choice - now as fully part of the family as sons. They can still - like the prodigal son - fall away. Every description of the Bible in its entire seems to teach this which was somehow lost. Freedom of will and sonship requires all these. This explains the fallin away of Lucifer, Angels etc which are vaguely referred to in the Bible.

Once we accept this possibility we can now deal with the story of the fallen angels and fallen Lucifer easily. Lucifer and fallen Angels once formed part of this group living in consonance within the family of God. The fall and all the complications of history is part of a living family and its problems. It is this group of Sons of God that is referred to in the book of Job

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2 Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Since they are immortal, God cannot kill them. Hence they are imprisoned and kept in chains of darkness until the final judgement and redemption and recreation. Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

1 Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

DESCENDANTS OF SETH AND CAIN

References to the offspring of Seth rebelling from God and mingling with the daughters of Cain are found from the second century CE onwards in both Christian and Jewish sources. e.g. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Augustine of Hippo, Sextus Julius Africanus, and the Letters attributed to St. Clement. It is also the view expressed in the modern canonical Amharic Ethiopian Orthodox Bible: Henok 2:1–3 "and the Offspring of Seth, who were upon the Holy Mount, saw them and loved them. And they told one another, 'Come, let us choose for us daughters from Cain's children; let us bear children for us.'"

Likewise, a long-held view among some Christians is that the "sons of God" were the formerly righteous descendants of Seth who rebelled, while the "daughters of men" were the unrighteous descendants of Cain, and the Nephilim the offspring of their union.

This view, dating to at least the 1st century AD in Jewish literature as described above, is also found in Christian sources from the 3rd century if not earlier, with references throughout the Clementine literature, as well as in Sextus Julius Africanus, Ephrem the Syrian and others.

Holders of this view have looked for support in Jesus' statement that "in those days before the flood they [humans] were ... marrying and giving in marriage" (Matthew 24:38).

Some individuals and groups, including St. Augustine, John Chrysostom, and John Calvin, take the view of Genesis 6:2 that the "Angels" who fathered the Nephilim referred to certain human males from

84 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN the lineage of Seth, who were called sons of God probably in reference to their prior covenant with Yahweh (cf. Deuteronomy 14:1; 32:5); according to these sources, these men had begun to pursue bodily interests, and so took wives of the daughters of men, e.g., those who were descended from Cain or from any people who did not worship God.

This also is the view of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, supported by their own Ge'ez manuscripts and Amharic translation of the Haile Selassie Bible—where the books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, counted as canonical by this church, differ from western academic editions.

The "Sons of Seth view" is also the view presented in a few extra-biblical, yet ancient works, including Clementine literature, the 3rd century Cave of Treasures, and the ca. 6th Century Ge'ez work The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. In these sources, these offspring of Seth were said to have disobeyed God, by breeding with the Cainites and producing wicked children "who were all unlike", thus angering God into bringing about the Deluge, as in the Conflict:

Those who hold the Serpent Seed theory that Cain was the son of the serpent - Satan through Eve - then goes on the assert that Cain and his progeny were the Sons of Men. This can be true only if Serpent was a Man - the humans created before Adam - the hominids who lived outside Eden. Was Serpent a Man? This is certainly a possibility. We should be calling Cain and his descendants Sons of Satan; and Seth and his descendants Sons of God

If we take this possibility seriously we can interpret the affair as the Adamic race with their gigantic form found the humans who were with whom they were forced to share the earth has daughters who 85 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN were beautiful. We know that these humans were only 6 feet tall at the most. Thus Adamic giant genes along with the local human girls produced giant sized people. Since Adam is the son of God, they were indeed sons of God. The girls were daughters of men.

Whichever explanation we take there indeed were giants on earth before the flood as well as after the flood. Though the Adamic race got shortened in height and weight, the genes were carried on especially by the humans continuing to produce giants, http://www.kotipetripaavola.com/Biblegiants.html 1.Adonizedec – King of Jerusalem Joshua 10:1–3 2.Agag – King of the Amalakites Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:17-19; Numbers 24:71 Samuel 15: 1 Samuel 15:8-9,20,32-33 Agag was executed by Samuel, 3.Ahiman Numbers 13:22; Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10;1 Chronicles 9:17 One of the three giant sons of Anak (the other two being Sheshai and Talmai) whom Caleb and the Israelite spies saw in Mount Hebron (Book of Numbers 13:22) when they went in to explore the promised land. They were afterwards driven out and slain (Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10). 4, .Arba. Joshua 14:15; 15:13; 21:11 was a man mentioned in the Book of Joshua. In Joshua 14:15, he is called the "greatest man among the Anakites." Joshua 15:13 says that Arba was the father of Anak. The Anakites (Hebrew Anakim) are described in the Hebrew Bible as giants. Little is known of his genealogy except that Joshua 15:13 describes him as the father of Anak, while the following verse refers to Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai as "sons of Anak." According to Joshua, Caleb drove these three out of his portion of the land of Canaan. The Bible also states that the city of Hebron was in ancient times known to be called Kirjath-arba or "Kiriath Arba" ("city of Arba"; after Arba). 5.Beelesath Judah 1:227.

6.Champion 2 Sam 21:20 And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant (rapha). (JPS 1917).

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7.Gog and Magog Revelations 20:8 8-12 .Goliath and his four brotherss 1Sam 17:4-58 2Sam 21:15-22; 1Chr 20:1-8 David was the second king of Judah and Israel between 1,010-962 B.C.,he slew the Philistine giant Goliath (Heb. golyath, was from Gath), who was nine feet tall, possibly eleven depending on the length of a cubit, and probably was one of the Anakites. (Num. 13:33; Josh 11:22.)

1 Sam 17: 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

Goliath's height was about eleven feet. His coat of mail weighted one hundred and fifty six pounds. His spear's head weighted about eighteen pounds. These measurements reveal to us that how large sized the giants were in the days of the King David. 2 Sam 21:22 These four were born to the giant (rapha) in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. (JPS 1917)

The book of Samuel (2 Samuel 21:15-20.) also tells of other Rephaim. David and his men also killed three of them besides Goliath: 2 Sam 21:19 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (JPS 1917)

One of them was named Ishbibenob, whom David killed with the help Abishai (2Samuel 21:16). Another was Saph, who was killed by Sibbecai during a battle between the Israelites and Philistines at Gob (verse 18). A third man of huge stature, who apparently liked to fight, was killed by Jonathan, a son of one of David's brothers, at a battle in Gath (verse 20).

Goliath Pedigree https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113151/figure/fig01/ Lahmi - Samuel 21:19 Chronicles 20:5

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Ishbi-Benob- 2Sa 21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Saph 2 Sam 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant (rapha). (JPS 1917) Exadachylus Chronicles 20:6-7

16.Og of Bashan Nu 21:33-35; De 1:1-8; 3:1-13; 31:1-8 He was between twelve and fifteen feet tall. He was the last remaining member of his nation of giants in Canaan ( De 3:11). Og ruled over sixty cities, Deut 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim (rephaim); behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. - (JPS 1917)

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According to the Bible, the king of Bashan was the remnant of the giants (the son of Anak). King Og's bed of iron was nine cubits in length, and four cubits in width (about 4.5 meters in length and 2.5 meters in width (about 14.8 feet x 8.2 feet)) (Deut. 3). Og's destruction is told in Psalms 135:11 and 136:20 as one of many great victories for the nation of Israel, and the Book of Amos 2:9 may refer to Og as "the Amorite" whose height was like the height of the cedars and whose strength was like that of the oaks. A reference to "Og" appears in a Phoenician inscription from Byblos (Byblos 13) published in 1974 by Wolfgang Rölling in "Eine neue phoenizische Inschrift aus Byblos," (Neue Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik, vol 2, 1-15 and plate 1). It appears in a damaged 7-line funerary inscription that Rölling dates to around 500 BC, and appears to say that if someone disturbs the bones of the occupant, "the mighty Og will avenge me." 13. Ogias – Og’s father: The 2nd-century BC apocryphal book "Ogias the Giant" or "The Book of Giants" depicts the adventures of a giant named Ogias who fought a great dragon, and who was supposedly either identical with the Biblical Og or was Og's father.The book enjoyed considerable currency for several centuries, especially due to having been taken up by the Manichaean religion.

14.Sheshai Numbers 13:22; Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10 One of the three giant sons of Anak (the other two being Ahiman and Talmai) whom Caleb and the Israelite spies saw in Mount Hebron (Book of Numbers 13:22) when they went in to explore the promised land. They were afterwards driven out and slain (Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10).

15. .Sihon – King of the Amorites Numbers 21:,23,26-39,34 32:33; Deuteronomy 1:4 2:24,26,30,31-32 3:2,6, 4:46 29:7 31:4 ; Joshua 2:10 9:10 12:2,5 13:10,21,27 11:19-21; 1 Kings 4:19 ; Nehemiah 9:22; Psalm 135:11 136:19 ; Jeremiah 48:25

16. .Sippai 1 Chron 20:4 died in the battle of Gob;

17. Talmai: Numbers 13:22; Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10 ; 2 Samuel 3:3 13:37; 1 Chronicles 3:2 One of the three giant sons of Anak (the other two being Sheshai and Ahiman) whom

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Caleb and the Israelite spies saw in Mount Hebron when they went in to explore the promised land. They were afterwards driven out and slain Talmai, father of Maacah" King of Geshur. His daughter Maacah was a wife to the king David of Israel, mother of Tamar and Absalom (2 Samuel 3:3). After slaying Amnon (for the rape of Tamar), Absalom fled to Talmai in Geshur for three years

Giants Killers of the Bible Chedorlaomer Gen 14:5-6 Jonathan the son of Shimeah 2 Samuel 21:20-21 1 Chronicles 20:6-7 Unkonwn Hero Deuteronomy 3:3 Caleb & Joshua 15:14-16 Judges 1:10-12 Othniel 15:17 Judges 1:13 David 1 Sam 17:51 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada1 Chron 11:22-23 Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim 2 sam 21:19 Abishai the son of Zeruiah 2 sam 21:16-17 Sibbechai the Hushathite 2 sam 21:18 1 Chronicles 20:4 http://nephilimdeception.blogspot.com/p/names-of-giants.html

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Left: Robert P. Wadlow (1918-1840), tallest man in the world according to Guinness World Records at 8-foot-11.1, and weighing 439 pounds; his size usually caused by a tumor on the pituitary gland (“gigantism”). Rght: Tallest man, Sultan Kosen, with shortest, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, on Guinness World Records Day. We have not totally lost the genes.

Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia — one of many Indian burial mounds scattered across the — was first excavated in 1838 by amateurs who found giant human skeletons inside as long as eight feet.

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A DOZEN GIANT SKELETONS FOUND IN In 2007 National Geographic reported the finding of a dozen Cyclops skeletons found in Greece that stood 12-15.5 feet tall.

http://www.watchmanbiblestudy.com/BibleStudies/NephilimGiants.html

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Though there have been lot of hoax photographs of fossils of giants, we have reliable documentations for it. Some of them are found in America even recently. It appears to be all over the earth. Consider the ones found only in Ohio, just in 19th Century: Conneaut 1800, Chesterville 1829, Vermillion 1858, Brush Creek Township 1870, Seneca Township 1872, Ashtabula County 1878, Zanesville 1880, Medina County 1881, Marion County 1883, Brown County 1883, Toledo 1888 and 1895, Proctorville 1892, Jackson 1897, and the Lake Erie Islands 1898.

http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/top-ten-giant-discoveries-north-america-00519

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http://www.wessexchristianfellowship.com/our-media-/blog5/study-on-giants-in-bible-partly-adopted.php

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CHAPTER SEVEN CLEANSING THE EARTH

1. Lifespans The lifespans of nine pre-Flood patriarchs Adam through Noah listed in Genesis 5 ranged from 777 years for Lamech to 969 years for Methuselah with an average of 912 years. This excludes the outlier Enoch, Noah’s great-grandfather whom God took to heaven prematurely at age 365 (Genesis 5:23-24).

Lifespans before the Flood Biblical Patriarch Age when first son born Age at death Adam ? 930 Seth 105 912 Enosh 90 905 Cainan 70 910 Mahalealel 65 895 Jared 162 962 Enoch 65 365 (taken up alive) Methuselah 187 969 Lamech 182 777 Noah 500? 950 Average 116 912

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People came of Age late at around 100 years old. The live span was around 900 years and always less than 1000 years ( which tend to assert that the life span was less than a day of God following Peter)

If we assume that they can have children from 100 to 700 years and at intervals of 10 years there would have been 60 children in their life time for each. This is just to show that all our estimates will fall far below the actual numbers. 60 may be an actually admissible number of children.

The Jewish historian Josephus of the first century A.D. reports that Adam and Eve had 56 children — 33 sons and 23 daughters. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2, Paragraph 2, Endnote 8.)

Josephus also reports that Lamech had 77 children by two wives. Lamech was the sixth generation after Adam through Cain; this was a different Lamech from the father of Noah through Cain’s brother Seth (Genesis 4:17-19). (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2, Paragraph 2.)

Scripture records data on the children of 10 families immediately after the Flood which can be useful for estimating pre-Flood practices. Noah’s three sons had at least 16 sons among them. Seven of those 16 grandsons of Noah had at least 38 sons among them. The progeny of the other 9 grandsons is not recorded. Thus 10 families immediately following the Flood had at least 54 sons and presumably about the same number of daughters, thereby averaging at least 10.8 children per family. (Genesis 10; 11:10-13)

4. Population at the Flood

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These are complicated formulas since we have branches of braches of family tree to enumerate. The simplest formula is given above. See http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/life-span-of-patriarchs-from-adam-to-noah.html http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html gives the population growth formula

"As an ultraconservative assumption, let C = 3, x = 5, and n = 16.56. These constants correspond to an average family of six children, an average generation of 100 years and an average lifespan of 500 years. On this basis the world population at the time of the Flood would have been 235 million people. This probably represents in a gross underestimate of the numbers who actually perished in the Flood.

http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html Although it is difficult to obtain an actual value of world population at the time of the flood, 5 to17 billion people would appear to be reasonable populations, with an average of around 10 billion. The best ages for childbirth would be 80.8 to 92 years with 6 to 7 children per family. This would be 20 to 18 generations produced from Adam to the Flood in 1656. The Book of Genesis indicates (Chapter 5) that each family had at least 5 children. Adam and Eve had a total of 7 (including Abel). However, Noah

97 ADAM AND EVE OUTSIDE OF EDEN PROF.M.M.NINAN apparently had only 3 children. (It is possible that he could have had sons and daughters that aren't recorded and who weren't on the ark.). Jewish tradition ascribes much greater number of children for each patriarch which will make the population at the time of flood far greater than the value given above. Genesis Chapter 5 states that each person had "sons and daughters" in addition to the son whose chronology is given.

Although it is difficult to obtain an actual value of world population at the time of the flood, 5 to17 billion people would appear to be reasonable populations, with an average of around 10 billion. The best ages for childbirth would be 80.8 to 92 years with 6 to 7 children per family. This would be 20 to 18 generations produced from Adam to the Flood in 1656. The Book of Genesis indicates (Chapter 5) that each family had at least 5 children. Adam and Eve had a total of 7 (including Abel). However, Noah apparently had only 3 children. (It is possible that he could have had sons and daughters that aren't recorded and who weren't on the ark.). Jewish tradition ascribes much greater number of children for each patriarch which will make the population at the time of flood far greater than the value given above. Genesis Chapter 5 states that each person had "sons and daughters" in addition to the son whose chronology is given.

With the large number of people on earth, the competition for life pleasures increased to the extent that on getting up one fine morning 1,656 years after the Creation (This is around 1 PM for God on the second day on a 1000 years as a day) this is what God found.

Gen 6: 5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

The only way out was to reduce the life span of man and then start the world afresh. So God decided to wash out the earth of all those who will not return.

Gen 6:8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

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So God had Noah preach for 120 years and warned the people of the coming deluge. People could not believe it because there had been no rain before it. He was building the Ark for 120 years - a huge project at that time for a flood which was unimaginable in a world without rain. Noah was certainly talking about imagined things which are scientifically impossible to the people who heard him

Hebrews 11:7 that Noah moved with fear, “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

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"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." (Genesis 2:5-6).But when the rain came it took them by surprise.

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https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j22_1/j22_1_62-64.pdf

Gen 9 :1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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We are told in Genesis 1:6-8 that on the second day of creation God divided the waters that were on the Earth from the waters that He placed above the Earth when He made a “firmament” (Hebrew: raqiya, meaning “expanse”) between those waters. The term firmament suggest a hard firm layer probably made of ice surrounding the earth. It was this that gave rise to the 40 days of rain.

A water canopy would filter out many of the harmful rays of the sun and would block alpha and beta radiation penetration, decreasing the aging process which helps explains the 900-year life spans before the Flood. Also, the Liquid water found in the Canopy combined with the ozone layer would block most of the ultra violet radiations from the sunlight. A water canopy covering the Earth would create a globally warm climate all over the earth.

Another benefit to the water canopy was hyperbaric (increased pressure) effect. The weight of the water in the sky would have increased the oxygen content in the air as well as the atmospheric pressure on earth. Proof was found recently when scientists found much lesser bubbles of air in ancient with as much as 32% oxygen, compared to our air today that contains roughly 20% oxygen. Under these circumstances there would have had doubled atmospheric pressure, allowing an environment of heavier atmospheric pressure and higher oxygen. This allows more Efficient Healing.

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Sign Of The Covenant. After Noah’s Flood there was the first Rainbow. During the existence of the Canopy there would have been no rain. Genesis 2:6: “But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.”. Dr. Humphrey’s Observation on the Canopy Theory

Fountains of the Deep

"And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Genesis 7:10-11).

"In their catastrophic plate tectonics model for the flood, Austin et al. have proposed that at the onset of the flood, the ocean floor rapidly lifted up to 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) due to an increase in temperature as horizontal movement of the tectonic plates accelerated. This would spill the seawater onto the land and cause massive flooding -- perhaps what is aptly described as the breaking up of the 'fountains of the great deep.'" http://www1.cbn.com/biblestudy/where-did-all-that-water-come-from%3F

The great volume of water this early in the flood event could only come from massive undersea "fountains" beginning to breech the crust all along the mid-oceanic ridge system. But this preliminary out-flow was still insufficient to breech the ocean's surface. The volume of underwater displacement would, however, be sufficient enough to generate global tsunami (tidal waves) activity, quickly drowning inhabitants who lived near the seas.

It was mountains rising and valleys sinking that caused the floodwater to drain at the end of Noah’s Flood. It is clear that many present mountains were once under the ocean because the sedimentary rocks that form the tops of most mountains contain marine fossils. Even Mount Everest is topped with marine crinoid (sea lily) fossils embedded in . The water moved toward the low spots on the planet and the rising land was exposed. As a result of vertical movements in the earth’s crust, the continents and mountains rose at the same time as the valleys and ocean floors sank. The mountains were first to rise above the water, which explains why the Ark grounded on the “mountains of Ararat”

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(Genesis 8:4). If the Genesis Flood was a local event, the Ark would have been carried downstream. Assuming it didn’t sink, it would have landed on a flood plain or been washed into the ocean. Scripture is strikingly consistent in declaring the Genesis Flood as a global event, and the features on the surface of the earth are in full agreement." How did the waters of Noah’s Flood drain off the continents? by Mike Oard https://creation.com/how-did-the-waters-of-noahs-flood-drain

When it all came back to normal All except Noah and his three children and their wives alone survived to start a new earth.

But how did the Giants survive earth, since we are told they were there even after the flood?

One possibility is that the genes DNA of the Adamic race still contained their giant size which came into existence. Thus the are with us even today and once in a while giants are born.

If it was the heavenly "sons of God" who violated the human girls, they probably went back to their alien spiritual home and still continues to visit the earth. They are immortal and some are still permitted to revisit the world as a testing rod by YHVH as proposed by the rabbinic tradition.

Probably one of the wives of Noah's children still carried their genes.

The Life Span of man was reduced to around a 100, a tenth of the period before the flood. You can see the slow decrease in life time in this graph. This was caused by the depletion of the ice layer around the earth during the 40 day non-stop rain and the consequent increase in the radiation from the sun. It caused rapid depletion of energy in man and animals that the decay rate become fast.

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It must have been painful for God to destroy all his dreams of Adam and Eve that he has developed and to kill all those enormous men and women of the pre-flood.

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Gen 9: 11- 16 " I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

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“NOAH”S ARK FOUND?"

In Sept. 1960, 27 year old Ron Wyatt, along with thousands of other people, read an article in “Life” Magazine about a strange boat-shaped formation in the mountains of Ararat: https://wyattmuseum.com/understanding-the-remains-of-noahs-ark/2011-693

Boatlike form is seen near Ararat.

While routinely examining aerial photos of his country, a Turkish army captain suddenly gaped at the picture shown below. There, on a mountain 20 miles south of Mt. Ararat, the biblical landfall of Noah’s Ark, was a boat-shaped form about 500 feet long. The captain passed on the word. Soon an expedition including American scientists set out for the site.

At 7,000 feet, in the midst of crevasses and landslide debris, the explorers found a clear, grassy area shaped like a ship and rimmed with steep, packed-earth sides. Its dimensions are close to those given in Genesis: `The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits,’ that is, 450x75x45 feet. A quick two-day survey revealed no sign that the object was man made. Yet a scientist in the group says nothing in nature could create such a symmetrical shape. A thorough excavation may be made another year to solve the mystery.”

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Wyat Archaelogical Research who did research on this asserts that it is indeed the Ark of Noah and is in exact dimensions and structure.

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