Book of Genesis question?
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This is how Websters Dictionary defines replenish:\n\nMain Entry: re·plen·ish \nPronunciation: ri-'ple-nish\nFunction: verb\nEtymology: Middle English replenisshen, from Anglo-French repleniss-, stem of replenir to fill, from re- + plein full, from Latin plenus -- more at FULL\ntransitive verb\n1 a : to fill with persons or animals : STOCK b archaic : to supply fully : PERFECT c : to fill with inspiration or power : NOURISH\n\nThis should help you to see that Adam and Eve were instructed to go and fill the earth with their own kind and they were to be in charge of all the animals. God's Word tells the truth. Don't let the beliefs of imperfect humans make you doubt what the Bible really teaches.
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The bible was not intended to be a science book.  Although it gives scientific information long before science was even known. It says that all animals reproduced according to their kind.  A horse could not give birth to a dog, nor a dog give birth to a cat. Also, the order in which the earth was created was the only way it could possibly be done to support mankind.  It had to have soil,  light, foliage, fruits and vegetables, etc before God made man. Man was His last creation and the earth was ready for him.
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Chapter two is just rehashing of the creation. Not another creation. It is like a synopsis of what happened in the first chapter.\n\n Chapter 2 of Genesis apparently adds some details. However, it is not, as some have concluded, another account of creation in conflict with that of chapter 1. It just takes up at a point in the third “day,” after dry land appeared but before land plants were created, adding details that were pertinent to the arrival of humans—Adam the living soul, his garden home, Eden, and the woman Eve, his wife.—Genesis 2:5-9, 15-18, 21, 22.\n\n The foregoing is presented to help us understand what Genesis says. And this quite realistic account indicates that the creative process continued throughout a period of, not just 144 hours (6 × 24), but over many millenniums of time.
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The Bible is so mysterious... I wish someone had all the answers. I'm driving myself nuts over questions like this everyday. Good luck!
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I DID NOT FIND ONE [SOME YEARS AGO], SO HERE IS MINE AS THIS KIND OF INFORMATION AND BIBLE TIME LINE IS WHAT I HAVE TO KNOW AS I DO BELIEVE THE AUTHORS [GOD AND JESUS], OF THE BIBLE KNOWS IT ALL AND CAN GIVE US WHAT HE WANTS US TO KNOW.\n\n01. Enoch born 622 after Adam lived 365 years died 987 and Adam had died in 930.\n02. Noah born 1056 after Adam lived 600 = 1656 to come through flood and 350 after the flood to 2006 after Adam.\nGen.7:6; 9:28,29;\n03. Shem born 1558, age 100 two years after the flood lived another 500 years to die  2158 after Adam and 25 years to: 04. Abraham born 2008 dies age 175 in 2183 after Adam.\nGen.25:7;\n05. Isaac born 2108 died age 180 in 2288 after Adam.\nGen.35:28,29;\n05. Jacob born when Isaac is age 60 in 2168 is age 147 at death after 17 years in Egypt where Son Joseph at his death is age 57. Gen.47:9,28;\n06. Joseph born when Jacob is age 90 in 2258 is age 110 at death in Gen.50:26; this ends the book of Genesis.\n07. Job born 2293 is age 140 at death and age 75 to 140 after death of Joseph to be the most upright man on earth.\nJob 2:1-4; he died the year Moses is born.\n08. Moses 2433-40-2473-40-2513 Exodus and 2553 dies at age\n120 Deut.34:7,10;\n09. Deborah [and all the judges down to Samuel, Saul and]:\n10. Samuel born 2883 after Adam, dies at age 100 = 2983.\n11. David born 2959 after Adam died at age 70 = 3029.\n12. Solomon is king 4th year 480th year after death of Moses\nhe begans the temple 1KI.6:1; in the year 3033 + 36 years to his death in 3069. He was born when David was age 41 in the year 3000 after Adam, he died at age 69 = 3069.\n3069 + 391 years of Judah kings and 19 prophets:\n3069 + {17-3-41-23-8-1-6-40-29-52-16-16-29-55-2-31-11-11=]\n391 = 3460 after Adam and 606 years to Jesus in Rome #6.\n\n3460 to 40. Daniel, 41. Jeremiah and 42. Ezekiel and the\nwhole Promised Land is captive to Babylon #3 Empire to Jesus\nwill come as Daniel 9:24-27; tells Matt.4:1-11[Satan and Jesus];\nRevelations 17:1-6,10-14[ #1 to #6 Satan's world that Jesus came into in #6 and John was on Patmos to write Revelations\nin #6, we will get the bible near the end of #7, we did and\nRev.12:6-7-11,12[Dan.12:1-13; Matt.24:3,14,15]; begans in the 8th where Jesus second coming will be].\n\nAfter Daniel 3460 + 70 = 3530 to Cyrus in #4 as told by Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; about 3352 after Adam. Isaiah was in Assyria #2 of Rev.17:1-14[Satan's world of Empires];\n\nEzra, Nehemiah, Mordecia, Haggai, Zechariah are after Daniel to about 450 years before Jesus and Jerusalem and the temple are rebuilt. Matt.1:1-17; After Cyrus in #4 and the others, Greece will be #5 and 14 generations are from Babylon #3 to Jesus in Rome #6.\n\nI hope this will help you pull your info together on the prophets.
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Hello BibleGuy the answer is simple. It is clearly writen. Gen 5:1-2, Gen 1:26-28.  Cain wife was from Adam, not His father, she was not His sister, Adam was the name of those God created in the Begining and called their name Adam, this is not talking about Adam & Eve who where in the Garden. Adam was the Name of those God created and 1 of Them He chose and Place in the Garden, thus showing His way even from the Begining chosing from Mankind (Adam) to guide and lead the others in the way.  Adam was not just One person but many. Not just One color.  If you like to know more contack me at PastorDoulos@yahoo.com
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Noah's Ark\n\n  Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there lived a man named Noah.  Noah was a very good man, and God loved him because he lived like God wanted him to live.  Noah had a wife and three sons, named Ham, Shem and Japheth, and each of his sons had a wife. \n\n        It wasn't a very happy time on the earth.  There were big ugly giants that lived in those days, and people became very mean to one another.  There was a lot of fighting between people, and lying and stealing, and it was just all bad.  But Noah and his family were always very nice.  God became angry with all the mean people and the big ugly giants.  He was so upset with them all that he was sorry he made man on the earth, but he was very pleased with Noah and his family. \n\n        God talked to Noah one day and said, "Noah ... Noah.  I have to put an end to all of the bad people and giants on the earth.  I will destroy them all, people and animals, by sending a Great Flood, to wash them all away.  I want you and your family, to build an ark out of gopher wood.  Make it with rooms inside and make it really, really big.  Put a window in the top, so light can get in, and build a door on the side.  I want you to make it three stories tall with rooms inside." \n\n        God told Noah all the measurements to use in making the ark, like how long and how high and how wide to make it.  Then God said, "I am going to send two of every kind of living thing on the earth to keep them alive during the Great Flood.  They are going to live with you and your family on the ark.  And I will start my promise with you." \n\n        Oh my!  Noah had a very big job ahead of him.  He had never even built a boat before, let alone, an ark.  God told Noah just exactly how to do everything.  So, Noah and his family began building the ark.  They had to cut down big, tall trees for the wood and had to haul it to the place where they were building the ark.  They had to cut the trees so all the wood would fit together just right, the way God told Noah to.  They didn't have the same kind of tools back then, that there are now, so it took a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.  They needed tar to go between the wood, so that the water couldn't get in at all. \n\n        They had to build separate pens for all the different kinds of animals.  They built big pens for the big animals, like the elephants and the giraffes.  They built medium sized pens for the medium sized animals, like the cows and the horses.  They built smaller pens for the smaller animals, like the deer and the sheep.  And they built little cages for the little things, like the chickens and the birds.  They also had to build places to store all different kinds of food, for all the different kinds of animals.  Yes, it was a very big job, indeed!\n\n        People made fun of Noah and his family while they were building the ark.  They laughed and said, "Noah, you crazy old man, there isn't even a lake close by!"  Every time they passed by, they had something mean to say to Noah and his family about how silly they were to build an ark.  They didn't know that God was going to bring a Great Flood to wash them all away. \n\n        Noah didn't care that the people were laughing at him.  He didn't let the people or anything that they said, bother him because he knew what was going to happen.  He was very happy doing whatever God told him to do, whistling and singing while he worked.\n\n        It took a very long time to build the ark.  Many days were spent cutting and lifting and measuring and fitting.  It was hard work.  When the ark was finished, God told Noah to start loading the ark with his family and the animals because in seven days, the rain would start.  God said it would rain for forty days and forty nights, and that would destroy every living thing on the earth. \n\n        So, Noah did what God told him to do, and he, and his family started bringi
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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OK, according to the Bible, the creation of the heavens and the earth was "the beginning". So, we don't know what God was up to before that time (and in most views, this is irrelevant because God is 'timeless').\nWe are given no explanation of where God came from, it is simply assumed that God always has been (no matter what belief system, Evolution, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, or any other, there comes a point where you simply have to say "I don't know where it/He/we came from").\nBack to the Bible ... Since 'the begining' is the creation of heavens and earth, NOTHING (other than God) existed before that time. God then began a process of 'forming' and 'filling' His creation. This process took Him six days. On day one, He created light and separated it from the darkness, calling it one day. This was the forming of the heavens (space/time).\nOn day two, He formed the atmosphere by separating the waters above from the waters beneath.\nOn day three, He begins to fill what He has formed, starting with the earth, separating the water from the land, and filling the land with growing things (plants).\nOn day four, He fills the heavens (above the atmosphere) with the sun, moon, and stars (probably the angels were created on this day as well).\nOn day five, He fills the water with fish (and other water-dwelling creatures), and the firmament (atomosphere) with birds (and other flying creatures)\nOn day six, He filled the land with all land-dwellers and created man in His own image to rule over the earth as the Vice-regent of God. \nOn day Seven, God rested from (stopped) the work of creation.\nNow, Genesis chapter 2 is often mis-understood to be a contradiction of Genesis 1 because of some differences in the order of creation, and some added details, so I will try to give a little understanding to this. Have you aver read a newspaper headline? Gen. 1 is the 'headline' and the main article is in Gen. 2. This is a detailed account of what happened on day 6, where God made a garden, placed the man in the garden, and then created one of each 'kind' of creation right before his eyes so the man could name them and rule them in equity. Then God created the woman to be with the man (by this time, Adam knew he needed a mate too!)\nIn the garden Adam and Eve had only ONE restriction - They were free to do ANYTHING they wanted to do with the exception of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were clearly told the penalty of this would be death.\nIn spite of this knowledge, they both ate of the tree, and as a result, death entered the world, and the perfect creation of God was ruined. Instead of killing Adam and Eve though, God provided a 'loophole' in the law, and an animal (probably a lamb) was killed instead. In this way Adam and Eve saw the result of their sin brought death into the world, but God spared their lives for the time. By clothing them in the skins of the animal killed in their stead, God was giving them a constant reminder of the result of sin, and reminding them that He accepted them through the substitution of the animal killed in their place.\nThen God makes an extraordinary promise (Gen. 3:15) That the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent who deceived her.\n\nWe now skip ahead to a time when evil has grown on the earth to the point God can no longer stand it (Gen. 6), and men have stopped caring whether or not they are in right standing with God, forsaking the sacrifice, and offending God in all their thoughts and deeds (possibly because even though Adam lived to the age of 930 years, he eventually did die). \nBut there is one man (Adam's great, great, great, great, great, great, granson) who is still seeking God, and observing the sacrifice for atonement of sin. This man's name was Noah, and God judged the entire world with a flood, but spared Noah and his family (as well as each k
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The bible states that God created man (humanity, all the races) on the 6th day. Male and female. He blessed them and told them to multiply and fill the earth. Then, on the 7th day, He rested. Later.... in what many Christians today call 8th day creation.... God planted a garden but, saw there was no man to till the earth so, He made Adam, the first farmer. God brought to Adam many animals and Adam named them. These were the domestic animals we use today on farms and as beasts of burden. Wild aimals had been previously created on day 5. \n\nWhen Cain killed Abel, Cain went to the land of Nod were he took a wife. He married a female who was a 6th day creation human. \n\nLater, Adam and Eve had many children. One child, Seth, was to be the ancestor of Noah, who was the ancestor of David. From this lineage came Mary, mother of God. The reason for the lineage breakdown (the begatting) is to let us all know Christ's (for want of a better word) pedigree.
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Here is a site that explains it. It is from the bible.  http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html
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Hmm. Which account of creation do you mean, the one in Genesis chapter one or the other one in chapter two?\n\n The "chapter one version" does not say either way.\n\n The "chapter two version" says man was created from dust, it  also says women were made from ribs.\n\n Mmmmmm.. Ribs are tasty.\n\n The answer is that the second account of creation in the bible evolved from the first account. It is certainly more creative and detailed fiction, than it's ancestor.
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Genesis was not written by Moses.  The First Book of the Bible is an acount of the beginings of the earth and the origins of mankind.\nMostly likely it is based upon earlier mythology, other cultural traditions prior to what has become known as the Judeo- Christian tradition.\nThe Pentauch - the five books of Moses are merely a reference point, not an acknowledge of Moses's specific role in documenting these mythological events and creation stories.
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There were a bunch of books left out of the Bible. Mostly this was done to maintain consistancy. You can read some of them at my link. I have read most of the ones on this page and there is little "new" information.
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Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.\nGenesis 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. \n The Bible clearly says that God created and creates man.
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My absolute favorite story in Genesis is the story of Joseph, where his brothers sell him into slavery and he ends up becoming the top person in Egypt right underneath Pharaoh.  The best part of the story is when his brothers come to Egypt to get food for their family, and Joseph ends up telling them who he is and that he forgives them of everything that they did to him.  It takes a strong man of God to do something like that.  I admire him for that.
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As others have pointed out, Adam had other sons and daughters. Genesis chapter five, verse four says, "Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters."\n\nWhen you read through Genesis, you'll notice the writer only follows one line (i.e. genealogy). Starting with Adam, we follow the line, but numerous times the line splits when individuals forfeit the purpose of God. The line that forfeits the purpose is not mentioned again. The line that is followed is the faithful "family" that carries out the plan of God and eventually ends at Jesus Christ (see Matthew chapter 1).