I agree with many of your (and Lewis’ conclusions, however, I do think of things a bit differently. First, you do know that almost all of Lewis’ theology is a regurgitation of Augustine? Don’t get me wrong, a profound thinker and writer, but nonetheless, unoriginal when it comes to Christian theology.

Also the free-will argument doesn’t work in the problem of pain because God could have created us in perfect union with him without knowing the difference. That free-will is the only possibility of genuine love may be true when it comes to humans, but not in relation to the very thing that created beings and wills to begin with. In other words, an all powerful creator could have created us as perfect genuine lovers of himself, but he surely did not.

I would love to know what you think,
~me

Fr. Robert

haha tell me about it. Since I try to continue my writings on what I read I never know how to end because I’m going to pick up where I left off. I always end up saying “Until next time” or whatever so I figured Ouch would work for today.

And ya know, I think I probably always thought it was Honest Abe when I was little as well!

I’m not really sure how we would know all of those kinds of details. I mean, if you do believe in the Bible then there were two chances to populate the earth. If you’d like to say that there were more people in the beginning of the Bible, then they were still wiped out by the flood and the earth was repopulated by 8 people that spread out throughout the world.

The Bible does record that as clans would move out into other lands they would create their own language. It also records that at one time they did all speak the same language at the Tower of Babble. From there God inserted different languages into people and spread them out across the world.

To me this makes much more sense and being a Christian, the Bible is what I live by. I do enjoy looking into things and asking questions, but I believe the Garden of Eden to be our origin and I wouldn’t change the story of the Bible as to that.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Cain and Abel were the first two born, apparently not long after leaving Eden.
Probably not many, if any, other kids from the first couple before Cain and Abel.

There is overwhelming evidence that humans were spread–all over the earth–at this time.

I think that Cain just “married” one of the thousands of women running around at this time in the Middle East.

Of course the mark on his head was for the other inhabitants in his area. The ones the Bible does not mention, but were there nonetheless.

And I suppose the people who helped him build the city were of the same people who saw the mark on him.

I wonder what God was thinking about the ‘Indians’, living in North and South America at this time? There doesn’t seem to be anything about them in the Bible…but, we know they were here.

We also know that India,Australia,China,Europe,Asia, and Japan were occupied and thriving, making pottery, tools, buildings, etc.

We also know they had languages. Do you think they all spoke the same language.

I’ve heard from old Jewish midrash that Adam and Eve lived in a cave that was called “The Cave of Treasures”

I sorry for the lateness of reply. For some reason I didn’t get a pingback when you answered my first reply.

Thanks for sharing this.

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