Opus 2025-550: Advent Calendar: Day 2, Replanting the Seed

Yesterday we saw that God had established the promise of the seed.  You could take this to mean a general sense of being a descendant about him and Eve.  As we continue reading, we find that this term is meant to be selective.  Jump forward a little bit and you’ll find that after Cain killed Abel, God again communicates something to Adam and Eve.

A new child was born and notice what the Bible tells us about that child,

Genesis 4:25 (KJV) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Cain was still alive.  In the literal sense the seed of Eve was still being passed on, but noticed that God specifically bypasses him and goes to Seth.  We will see this pattern down through the years.  It’s not that every descendant of Eve is considered in the path of the seed.  That would mean the entire world is the Messiah and we know it was only Jesus.

Keep in mind that God plans ahead and, even though some people deny the possibility, He can adjust His plans to meet the ways in which human beings respond to His overtures.

Merry Christmas. Be grateful that Seth stepped up to the plate.

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Opus 2024-167: Uncreated

Cain complains,

(Gen 4:14 KJV)  Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

In reading this passage, a question comes up that also appears other places.  Who are these people that Cain is worried about?  Where did they come from?  We know that Adam and Eve were created.  We know that the animals were created.  We have no record of any other people being created.

We see the same situation in regard to angels and those called the sons of God.  What about the wives for the children of Adam and Eve?

We talk about the two people in the Bible who never died, what about the ones who were never created?

We don’t know because the Bible doesn’t say.  It doesn’t say because, if you will forgive me, we don’t need to know.  This is not the need to know of a security clearance, it is simply that it is not important for our advancement in righteousness.

Of course the fact that the Bible does not say is not a barrier for people who want to share answers that don’t exist.  We have theories.  We have opinions.  We have a lot of hot air.  That is okay as long as we are clear that some things are just our opinion or a quoting of tradition.  There is often a difference between a good theory and truth.

Questions are good.  Keep asking.

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