Creation, Fall, Progression, Flood, Dispersion
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Good morning, welcome to downline. I am going to amend the schedule a little bit. This morning we are going to cover, Genesis 4-11, we will speak about Abraham a little bit and the next class we will cover the Patriarchs.
Good morning, welcome to downline. I am going to amend the schedule a little bit. This morning we are going to cover, Genesis 4-11, we will speak about Abraham a little bit and the next class we will cover the Patriarchs.
Ready?
Ready?
In Genesis 1-11 we are told the story of the world, when we look out at the world, and wonder how did all this happen, why are we like the way we are, why is the earth the way it is, why are we diverse and spread out across the world in diverse nations?
Genesis 1-11 gives the answers to these questions. They provide for us the knowledge we need to know about our world, Ken Ham would say that every major Bible Doctrine is represented in Genesis 1-11 and is one of the reasons Genesis 1-11 is attacked so often, because if you can get rid of Genesis 1-11, if you can get people to doubt Genesis 1-11, then they can can get rid of the Genesis 12 - Revelation 22.
There are themes in Genesis 1-11. There are four downline wants you to remember, you discussed a couple last Thursday. I have added one for discussion here this morning.
Creation
Fall
Progression (my addition)
Flood
Dispersion
Last week you covered Genesis 1-3, the creation and the fall. When the Lord was judging the women, we see the first word about the Gospel, the Lord pointing to a future salvation. Gen 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
I will bring enmity, hostility between the offspring of the serpent and the offspring of the woman. We immediately see that offspring or children are going to be very important in the story of the Bible. Through the offspring of the woman, rescue is coming, this rescue will not be without hostility from the offspring of the serpent.
When we flip the page, from Genesis 3 to Genesis 4, we read Adam and Eve begin to fill the earth with children.
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”
The translation of this verse does not give us the full force of what Eve said. The Cain sounds like and possibly derived from the Hebrew word qanah which means gotten or acquired. When Eve says “I have gotten a man” she may be explaining why she named him Cain, but in view of a promised deliver from the offspring of the woman Cain may mean “here he is” or I’ve gotten him, the deliverer the Lord promised us.
Many of your versions say “i have gotten a man with the help of the Lord”. That is not what Eve said, the translators have added the words “the help of” because many believe that is what the text is saying. The translators are taking the Hebrew participle/preposition ‘eth and translating it as with, but this Hebrew worth ‘eth can also be a marker of the accusative, meaning the word following it receives the object of the action of the sentence. We see this used in the line above, “she conceived and bore Cain” ‘eth is attached to the word Cain, because Cain is receiving the object of the action, bore. I bet you didn’t think you were taking a grammar class this early in the morning. The very next phrase, structured the same way as the one before reads “I have gotten a man…the Lord”. Which is a very different reading.
The obvious objection is there is know way Eve could have thought she gave birth to the LORD. We must keep in mind Exo 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
There is no way Eve would have known the LORD like Moses or even us. Eve would be using this word in a broad sense maybe the one who gives life or the one who delivers. In Eve’s mind she was thinking, I have gotten a man, he is the one who will deliver us, he is the one who will crush the head of the serpent.
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