Genesis Chapter Nine 'Was man vegetarian?"

In Verse 3 we read “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.”
We know from Genesis 1:29 that God created man to be a vegetarian. When did man begin to eat animals? It is not clear when man began to eat animals. Some think that since Abel offered animal sacrifice that he was eating animals, but it does not say that. It is possible that some men were eating animals before the flood, but I don’t think the followers of God were doing this. But after the flood we find God giving mankind permission now to go ahead and eat flesh. Why this changed I am not sure but I am glad it did!

Genesis Chapter Nine 'be fruitful and multiply"

In Verse 1 we find God giving Noah the command to “be fruitful and multiply” The same command that was given to Adam. The question is, “Is this command still in effect today! And what does “multiply” mean? I am not sure, but it is interesting when we consider what people are being told today, that we should NOT multiply because there are too many people on the earth! It would make sense that when there were just a few people on the earth that there was a need to ‘multiply.’ But when did that change? What is the number that this earth can reasonably sustain? I don't believe that the world is being overpopulated. That is one of our typical media myths that the Christian church has bought into like so many other myths. If we took all the people on the earth today and gave them three square feet how much land would they take up? Less than half of the city of Jacksonville Florida! All the people in the world, could be given 1/3 acre of land which could provide enough to support themselves and they would all fit within the continental United States, leaving the other five continents empty! There are 52.5 million square miles of land area in the world, not including Antarctica. The problem is not a lack of resources, but greed.We have been told that the greater the population density the lower the standard of living. Japan has a population density of 800 people per square mile, yet they have a higher per capita income ($4,450) than India, which has 511 people per square mile ($140). West Germany’s density is 636 per square mile, the United Kingdom’s is 593, and both have a higher per capita income than India. It is obvious that population density itself does not necessarily mean poverty. Let’s look at India with its population density. It does not lack food. It lacks the one true God. Every one of their sacred cows eats enough food to feed 7 people. There are two hundred million sacred cows in their country. If they would just stop feeding them, they would have enough food to feed one billion, four hundred million people. They have enough food to feed 1/4 of the world's population!Dense population does not mean poverty. Greedy governments and false religions cause poverty. This world has plenty of resources to handle the population and its growth.

Genesis Chapter Four

In Verse 5 we read "but God did not respect Cain and his offering and Cain was very angry." Apparently there was something wrong with Cain's attitude. It became manifested after he was confronted. How often that is true with us. People appear so spiritual, but if anyone dares to confront them about anything and they get all huffy. I remember one time a lady came to our church all spiritual and wanted to play the tambourine and she was totally distracting the worship. I had one of the ushers tell her she needed to stop. She got all huffy and left. One other time a young man played his guitar at a prayer meeting. It was terrible. The next week when he came I took him in the office and told him he couldn't play his guitar. He got all huffy and left. I think it is always the true test of what is in our hearts when we are challenged or confronted for something we are doing and then we see how we react. Apparently Cain was not as spiritual as he appeared!

In verse 17 we read that Cain knew his wife. Many people are stumbled by this and ask where did she come from? In chapter 5:4 we read that Eve had lots of sons and daughters. Since the average life span at that time was over one hundred years she would have had a lot of sons and daughters. The marriage of sisters and brothers was unavoidable in the early stages of the human race, but was later prohibited in the Mosaic Law. By the time Adan and Eve died it is easily conceivable that there were thousands of people living and by the time the flood came some have done the arithematic and have come up with the possibility that there were at least 3 billion living on the earth! If married at 25, and by 35 had 4 children, by 70 your children were married and had their children. In 5 generations there would be 96 people. In 10 generations there would be 3,070 people. In 20 generations there would be 3,150,000 people. In 30 generations there would be 3,220,000,000. That would be approximately 2,400 years which would be around the time of the flood.

Genesis Chapter Three

It is interesting in Verse 8 that after Adam and Eve sinned, it says that they "Hid themselves" The guilt of sin drives us from God. Our own sin seperates us from God. It seems God is always searching for us, but our own sins push us away from God. I am so glad that He never gives up chasing after us, like a good parent!

In Verse 9 it says that God asked "Where are you?" This is not the call of an arresting policeman, but the sob of heartbroken father who has lost his child. How would you feel as a father if when you came home your children ran and hid from you! This is how God felt and this is how He feels today, when our sins drive us from Him. This is what is so bad about sin, the darkness that it causes, makes us run from the glory of God. He doesn't change but we do when we sin.

Genesis Chapter One and Two

Genesis is one of my favorite books. It lays the foundation for the entire bible, everything we believe has its roots in Genesis. Starting with the literal creation story. God actually did create everything in six twenty four hour days. I have yet to meet an educated person who actually read good scientific research on creationism and still believed in evolution. Only close minded people can continue to believe in the theory of evolution once they do the research. Check out answersingensis.org if you have an open mind and want to truly do some research on the science of creationism. How about this: we know where we get our month (moon rotates around the earth) we know where we get our 24 hour day, (earth rotates on its axis) we know where we get our year (earth rotates around the sun) So where do we get a seven day week? Why not a five day, or an eight day week? It started with the creation story, with God establishing a healthy way of living, 'six days shall you work and rest on the seventh" God rested not because He was tired, He rested to give us an example.