Greg Anderson

Re Cheryl #129,

Even though the text does not explicitly state that Eve was not pregnant prior to the fall, the weight of evidence as you have shown would argue that she wasn’t.

I still cannot agree however, that increased pregnancies in the pre-flood world was an act of compassion on God’s part to preserve humanity.

If the record of scripture is inclusive that all pre-flood humans lived to great ages with no “die-off”, then it seems reasonable to me that the antediluvian humans were close to breeding themselves out of existence.

If I remove a crucial bolt or assembly from a perfectly running machine and it sets in motion a whole host of unintended and bad consequences, I did it to myself and God had nothing to do with it either in a compassionate sense, or from action as a vengeful deity.

Still Cheryl, I would hate like heck to have to face you in a court room as a prosecutor trying to convince a jury that a woman is in sin for teaching the Bible to men.