In the beginning, God created the fish of the sea, fowls of the air, and the beast of the field. God gave them a commandment to be fruitful and multiply [gen 1:21-22]. So immediately the animal began to multiply, this means they were having babies. The blessing the God put on them is so they could do that without distraction nor hinderance. In Gen 1:28 The blessed the male and female, and said unto them " Be fruitful multiply, replenish the earth subdue it and have dominion over it. Be fruitful[ always producing]. When you go to the supermarket, and you want som fruit you go to the "PRODUCE" section. The idea is that they have a responibility to reproduce themselves. We call that "children". After the fall of man, "eve" has 2 sons named Cain and Abel[gen4:1]. The punishment given to the woman was that in sorrow she shall bring forth children[gen 3:16]. Now in order for this to be a punishment to the woman, she would have to know the difference between having children with pain, and having children without pain. This means that b4 the fall she was having children already. After the fall she had two boys. She then said " I have gotten a manchild from the Lord. She said this because
she was use to having a "woman-child". B4 the fall of man Adam and His wife were to live forever. Adam didn't need a son to carry on the seed, because he was to live forever. However, after the fall, someone would have to carry on the bloodline and the seed. Cain killed Abel,
so I guess you could say that Cain was dis-abled !
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Ok, I have to admit that I'd never really thought out the reasons for Adam having daughters befpre the fall in the way you did, but I want to congratulate you on it. I have always known (or as long as I have been studying Genesis) that there were daughters but never really thought about the fact that they were only mentioned once when Cain went out to the Land of Nod and took a wife. We know that he did not take Eve becauuse she was still with Adam having more children and besides them he had just murdered the only other human mentioned to that point.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting thought you have there. I like what you did wth the girls, something I have not thought of like that. Keep up the good work. My new blog is available for your reading when your ready.
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