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So then we are all progeny of Seth bearing the less effaced image of God
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That's seems to be Gladd's take. He doesn't clearly explain this prejudice. I'm guessing it's prolly cuz Seth's line was saved, and Cain's line obliterated.
As he points out, the scriptures say Adam passed his likeness and image to Seth. It doesn't say that about Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel, so what likeness and image did Cain have? We're not told. We're left with only conclusions based upon a leap of faith. Like trying to explain where Cain got his wife.
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Yet we seem to have gone horribly wrong again.
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Yeah, Noah didn't fix the the human condition. So eventually the world went on just like before the antediluvian period, minus the the giants, Nephilim, and all other progeny of the sons of god and the fine daughters of men.
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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?
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Forget the beauty, a 6th extinction will be an Armageddon to humanity.
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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?
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May be our only hope. Seth's likeness and image may have passed down to us thru Noah, but methinks somehow, it more than appears, Cain's likeness and image leaked thru.
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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.
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Can't blame anyone for wanting to escape this crazy world, filled with so much pain, suffering, and premature death and killing, not only of the human species, but all the other species as well.
The first Adam may have been told to keep the garden, but seems that that likeness and image wasn't passed down to us.