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Originally Posted by awareness
From Seth's line comes Noah. All of Cain's line drowned ... along with the Watchers, and progeny from the sons of god and daughters of men.
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So then we are all progeny of Seth bearing the less effaced image of God and commissioned with ruling and subduing the created order? Yet we seem to have gone horribly wrong again. Biologists present us with evidence that we are in the sixth great extinction. Talk about a calamity of biblical proportions! Who wants to live on an earth without the abundant beauty and diversity of the flora and fauna? What are we going to do, fly to a fresh planet in our shiny new spiritual bodies? Or is God going to bring back the planet when he grants us our permanent new bodies? Is that what the restoration eschatological images are all about? There is geological evidence of five previous mass extinctions so it wouldn't be the first time. But , the geologic evidence shows that the restorations took millions of years and I haven't seen credible evidence that there were earlier humanoids when those occurred let alone a literal resurrection in the distant past. So, it seems a resurrection such as we are contemplating would be unprecedented.