Gustavl wrote:For instance, on the 6th day when YHWH created man in Genesis 1: 26 - 31, that was a VERY specific happening. First, He created male and female at the same time - the same He did with the animals.
I tend to agree, and skeptical about"nasamahless humans" scriptural support lacking. Seems more an attempt to reconcile "human origins" which I tend to find shakey at best. Leakey et all - Find a knee joint, tooth, skull peice, human remains with rickets, etc with conclusions based on circular reasoning (there is no God - man evolved from apes).
I mean was God finished with creation on the 6th day, and rested from his work on the 7th, or not? Gen 2 gets more specific with man being made from dust of the earth, being placed in the garden, then creation of woman, etc.
Also the problems of these passages can be explained:
(Qa'yin) Cain worried others would kill him, but yet lifespans were hundreds of years and verse about the murder denotes a passage of time before the murder, so could have been many generations by then with 1000s or 10s of thousands of people...
Especially with lifespans of hundreds of years, sexual maturity at +15, and likely fertile longer than current menopause. Yah told them to "be fruitful and multiply" so would have equipped them to do so. The text doesn't neccesarily state that Cain & Able were the 1st & 2nd offspring either, just relevant to the 1st murder account.
Then the gen 6 account I notice that nephilim means tyrants & bullies and could have been just kidnapped women as they pleased. The other place in numbers nephilim is used seems to mean tyrants & bullies who happened to be of great stature too.
I suppose Nimrod (and the aparatus) at babel was a nephilim too...yah wiped out all but Noah and family with the flood, only to have it occur again at babel, gamorrah, mitsrayim, etc, etc, rome, etc, NWO, etc.
Overall there just seems to be far more against a concept of "nesamahless humans" than for (scripture & reason), but willing to reconsider with better evidence.