Author : Keith Sharp
Bible Survey : Lesson Three (Genesis 4-5)
Genesis chapters four and five tell of the period before the great Flood and trace the genealogy of mankind from Adam to Noah.
Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. They offered sacrifices to God, and God approved Abel and his sacrifice, but rejected Cain and his. Cain became angry, and, despite the Lord God’s warning, murdered his brother Abel. The Lord drove Cain away to the East.
The remainder of Genesis chapter four gives the genealogy of Cain. His descendants made a number of inventions.
In direct contradiction to the bias of evolutionists, this demonstrates that early people were quite intelligent. Adam could communicate with God and gave an appropriate name to each kind of animal. Cain and Abel built fires for offerings. Cain was a farmer, and Abel was a shepherd.
Adam and Eve had another son named Seth. Genesis chapter five gives the lineage from Adam to Noah through Seth. Noah was a descendant of Seith, so all people today are descended from Seth.
It is not possible to harmonize the immense number of years evolutionists contend people have been on the earth with the genealogy of Genesis chapter five (repeated in 1 Chronicles 1:1-4 and Luke 3:36-38). Remember, secular science and ancient history books give these huge numbers because they are written by evolutionists, and evolutionists need these immense number of years for evolution to work. They do not give enormous numbers of years because evidence demands them.
It is remarkable to us how long the people lived before the Flood. Men lived to be almost a thousand years old. There is biblical evidence that conditions on the earth were better suited for long life before the Flood than after.
