lassie1865 wrote:I was just thinking last night about Yahowsha's saying: "My sheep hear My voice, and they follow Me". So, what 'voices' do we hear in Scripture? Well, there is the voice of Yahowah, some words of Satan, and Paul's words; that's about it. So, who says "me", "my", and "follow"? Well, I suppose it is Yahowah: "Listen/shamar to My Torah"; Yahowsha: "Follow Me"; and Paul: "my Gospel", "imitate me". Hmmm. Yahowsha is giving us a choice and a warning here: "Follow Me, not Paul".
I guess I am a little confused by this. I am not trying to follow Paul - I am just asking questions I would expect my children to ask. I am figuring out these things don't even make sense to me. I don't think it is wrong to simply ask who Qayin married and why if the first thing YHWH told Adam and Hawwah to do was "be fruitful and multiply" why did they not have any children until they were expelled from the garden.
I am not saying I don't trust Yahowah or that I don't follow Yahowsha'.
In my small mind - it makes more sense that Yahowah made men outside the garden, men that didn't have His "breath" and therefore really didn't have the relationship with Him that Adam had than that He made a half man/half animal type creature. I just can't get my head around that. Then, if in the garden 6,000 years ago we started with just Adam and Hawwah - how did we get the populations that are recorded in history throughout the word - especially with the physical diversity that doesn't hold based on climate alone.
For instance, it is pretty much proven that all humans share 99% dna in common. That 1% difference is what gives us the diversity we see in eye color, hair color, hair texture, etc. If we know this difference is dna based, then the differences we have amongst ourselves can't be climate based. It doesn't make sense that everyone shared the exact same first parents (Adam and Hawwah) and simply living in the region of China versus the region of North America created hair, eye, and skin color differences because that would mean climate affects DNA- which would support evolution. So, where does our DNA based diversity come from?
We have had this conversation before with my children - trying to tell them everyone came from Adam and Hawwah and they ask very legitimate questions - then why are people all different colors? Good question in my eyes. We are Black, Black people have been in this country for over 500 years, why do we still have features that more closely resemble people born in middle or southern Africa rather than people native to North America? If climate accounted for physical diversity then I should look more like my neighbors than someone born 5,000 miles away. I also have Scottish in my ancestry, but I look more African than Scottish - so physical diversity must come from something other than environment.
But, I would feel more comfortable dropping the notion of people outside the garden if I could just be led to scripture that indicates who Qayin and Seth married. The Genesis account just doesn't support Qayin marrying a sister unless people were not born as infants, but as adults. It doesn't even record people having children until they are over 100 years old. Adam had Seth at 130 years old. Seth had Enosh at 105. Was his wife a 12 year old sister? Was his wife a 100 year old sister? Did he marry a niece?
I don't know, I guess I am just frustrated that I have to go with something that in my mind just doesn't pass the logic muster. Again, I am not saying I don't trust Yahowah, it is the opposite. I do trust Him and I trust what He said and I am finding that when something doesn't make sense - it is generally wrong. But I will just drop it and shut my brain off for this one.