Cheryl Schatz

Greg Anderson,

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.

It would be difficult to work into the text a child who was born without a sin nature. Rather all of us were all kept together under sin and there are no “special” children who were perfect.

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.

Well, if the woman was meant to conceive every hundred years there might have been problems without a change. For example once we were susceptible to death not long after 100, there would be not many offspring for the few who made it to 100. Do you know what I mean? I think that this is one area that I would like to as God about when I get to heaven. I would like to find out how long Adam and Eve stayed in the garden before sin entered the world and what conception would have been like had Eve not been deceived into sinning.

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.

We also don’t know how long a woman’s fertile period would have lasted during this time. One hundred years? I don’t think anyone has an inkling of the answer. Ah, yes, another question to ask God when we all get to heaven. 😉

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.

Thanks Greg! By the time I am done with this subject, I think I will have turned over every rock and searched out every crevice for clues to the truth. I have always wanted to do the very best job that I can do!