A gap that I'm attempting to fill is what transpired between the Flood of Noah's day and the time of Abraham's Covenant about a thousand years later? It seems perplexing to me that Yah would use a Flood to cleanse the part of the Earth on which dwelt people who like Adam where equipped with a nesamah - conscience leaving all eight survivors having experienced Yahweh's power both to judge and to deliver.

I gather Noah's sons at some point moved to various parts of the post flood world and presumably intermarried with distant survivors who were not descended from Adam. Human life spans dropped to current levels. At least one of Noah's descendants established a concentrated settlement on the Shinar plain and angered Yahweh to the point of dispersing the settlements and languages. It seems perplexing to me that knowledge of Yahweh seemed to have disappeared while the many faces and names mystery Babylon spread throughout the region to include Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt and elsewhere.

Do we have evidence that a remnant remembered and knew Yahweh or did Paganism completely overtake humanity until Abraham was called? It seems we have a comparatively better picture of what transpired between Adam and Noah's time and again from Abraham on.

Some have suggested that Job dates back to Abraham's time which suggests that some people did know of Yahweh.

I wonder what I can find in KP's and CW's writings to help fill in this millennial gap?

I'm not sure of your guys take on the Book of Yasher but it has a lot of interesting information, for example the early life of Abraham, his relationship with his father and peers, his encounter with Nimrod, etc. There's a lot of "beind-the-scenes" information, starting from Genesis and going through to Joshua. I'm not suggesting the Book of Yasher is Scripture but it does provide a lot of insight, for example it tells us that Moses didn't circumcise his first born son because his father-in-law requested him not to (78:9), something we're not told in Genesis.

I've also been reading a book about world history spanning the last 4 million years (A Very Short History of the World by Geoffrey Blainey), and he is suggesting that around the time of the flood there were already groups of people across the globe, such as in the Americas and Asia, who already had their own unique and simple languages, some even displaying "religious" beliefs prior to Adam. In my mind there is no question that mankind accelerated in intelligence from Adam onwards (6000 years ago), an obvious strong hint of Yahweh's influence, but history suggests that mankind was quite smart prior to the time of Adam.

I must say the same thought occurred to me as I was writing my comment, I was wondering if Abe lived at the same time as Nimrod. I hadn't bothered to check it out though.

Yeah I was just in that section of Scripture last week, so it was pretty fresh on my mind. And i remembered Craig pointing it out in POD.

The legend I heard was that Shem slew Nimrod.

kp

The wild animal one sounds interesting, if I recall correctly, Nimrod was the prototype so to speak for Tamuz, and Tamuz was said to have been killed by a wild boar, hence the Easter Ham.

Greetings dugdoo56 and since I've not communicated with you before welcome to the forum. Certainly Adam is regarded by most Christians as the first human. I believe Matthew is referring what the associated online book Yada Yahweh in volume one - Genesis third chapter called Chay - Life and the chapters soon after describe Adam as the first human made in Yahweh's likeness by becoming endowed with a neshama - conscience.

While I'm familiar with the account of the Adversary being cast out of heaven like lightning, and that Creation was regarded by Yahweh as initially very good, I'm not familiar with any evidence Scriptural or otherwise to indicate that the Earth was destroyed and remade lifeless.

-Theophilus

Welcome to the Forum dugdoo56.

This is from YY – Genesis – Eden book and the thought is similar to “The Science of God” by Gerald Schroeder.

“…and relationally (‘asher) He placed (sym – established) the man (‘Adam) He formed (yasar – planned, fashioned, and created) there (sam – in that position and place).” (Genesis 2:8) The entire universe, like the joyous shelter, was established for man. From God’s perspective, we exist in the center of the universe.

There is something else worth pondering here. By using sym/placed, God is inferring that mankind was created outside of the garden, and that this man, Adam, was placed there after receiving the nesamah.

“Yahuweh, God, formed (forged and fashioned, planned and prepared) ‘Adam/man from the powdery dust (fine dirt or very small natural material particles) of the ground (‘adamah – soil or earth) and blew (napah – breathed) into his nostrils the life-giving, restoring and sustaining (hayim) conscience (nesamah – seat of judgment, of recognizing the difference between right and wrong, discernment and discrimination), and ‘Adam came to exist as (hayah) a living (hay / chay) soul (nepesh).” (Genesis 2:7)

The living creature known as man was the last animal God created on the sixth day. He fashioned the male and female human form, as with all other forms of life, from natural elements of the earth by manipulating their DNA code. But something was different about the species Homo sapiens. God designed a unique animal with a special capacity to think, to communicate, to be creative and productive, to walk upright, and to conceive and raise children in a loving and nurturing family, teaching and protecting them in a manner which would embrace the covenant He envisioned.

In this regard, of the millions of animal forms on earth, man is unlike any other — a species made in the likeness of God. Simply stated, if you can envision a man and woman who are husband and wife, standing before the shelter of their home with a child between them, you understand Yahweh and His purpose. After watching this new creature for a while, God took one specific human, He named him Adam, and gave He him a nesamah/conscience so that He could begin a relationship with this solitary, judgmental and discerning man. Yahweh designed and built a perfect paradise for him, and He placed Adam inside. This is the reason that the creation account of men and women and of Adam and Chawah is told twice, once generally of all humankind and once specifically of two very unique individuals.

This would make the humans inside and outside of Yah’s protection divergent only in that Adam and Chawah had both a nesamah/conscience and a personal relationship with God. This relationship, in my judgment, was perfect for two Yowbel, or 100 years, and then, using their nesamah, or seat of judgment, poorly Adam and Chawah were banished from the garden and exposed to the rest of the world—even to the rest of humanity.

These things considered, it matters not if my speculation is right or wrong. My purpose was to provide you with a scenario which was both plausible and completely consistent with Scripture and science. Humankind is a special animal and Adam and Chawah were an especially unique couple. Their ancestry is common, but not their conscience.

I've been coming here for about 3 or 4 years now, and I still learn new things all the time. It just goes to show, you can always learn more.