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Originally Posted by Tha Q.
This is actually one of the issues I have with the bible, reconciling the creation account to what really happened. Some people have speculated that "Adam" and "Eve" represented a nation of people, not just two.
Here's the problem with thinking Adam and Eve were one man and one woman.
They had two kids at first, Cain and Abel. THat means, there were literally just FOUR PEOPLE on earth at the time. However, after Cain killed Abel, God banished him out of his home land. Cain then said, "God, what if someone tries to kill me." Then, God replied, "I'll put a mark on your head and you will be safe." <--I'm paraphrasing. If there were only 3 people on earth at the time, what in the WORLD was Cain talking about?
I actually support the Adam/Eve nation theory.
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It's just a theory, which means it proves nada. If the bible adressed nations as the source of humanity, it would have said nations. not two individual people. This fits into the schools of thought that "interpret the bible to mean sometihng much different than what it clearly states".
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However, it also would have been possible for eve to have 100s of kids. People in those days lived hundreds of years. Remeber, the oldest living person in the bible lived to be over 900 years old, Methuselah.
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Adam and Eve died early and are not methusela. They were supposed to live forever up till they ate the fruit of the tree, which is SUPPOSEDLY why women menstruate which also is BS, since "jesus died for your sins" which means the slate should have been wiped clean, yet women today still mensturate and bleed.
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P.S. The account of God's flooding of the earth is in Genesis, as well as the statement, "It repented him that he made man." God felt sorry that so much wickedness had overrun the earth. So, he put an end to it.
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Once again, there is zero evidence of this flood since other civilaztions that existed around this time have obviosuly survuved since their history is still shown and make no mention of a flood at all. There are countless billions of artifacts that are found that predate this imaginary flood, which according to the bible should have been destroyed in the flood that no one can prove occured. Floods leave high water marks. This "great flood" left none. Floods cause land masses to rise. This flood caused none. Furthermore, no possible way that moses and his 3 sons, plus all 4 of their wives repopulated the earth. The variety of people and cultures alone shows that this is nonsense.
Not to mention the fact that all this EXTRA water that flooded the entire planet came from where exactly? Floods are bodies of water that move from one location to another, and the earth only has but so much water on it. Where'd the extra trillions upon trilions of gallons needed to flood the entire planet come from? and where did it all go?
If it evaporated, that means it went into the atmosphere and would have fallen back down as rain, which means the continents of earth would ALWAYS be submersed in this flood, which we obviously know they aren't.