"Be Fruitful and Multiply"

In the third chapter of Genesis, we see how Eve lures Adam into trying the fruit. Ok yeah she did but only because the serpent mislead her. But now thanks to that woman is known to be misleading and treacherous at times. The punishments given to Eve were a bit unfair. Adam got a punishment that wasn’t nearly as bad as hers. Didn’t God create these two beings to be equal? And yet it is Eve who has to go through the physical pain of childbirth and be overruled by man. There are still some of us out there fighting to prove that we are equal to men.

I didn’t really understand chapter 4. I understood that Eve had a child and then lots of other people were having children after one of Adam and Eves sons was murdered by the other. God of course punished the murderer but I didn’t really understand what his punishment was.
Begat is a past tense of beget ( basically be the father of, produce). Yes I looked it up because there was so much begating going on that it got a bit confusing. There was lots of begat in this time. Seth had a child, Mahaleel had a child, and many more had a child so this makes me wonder: If all of these guys are descendants of Adam and Eve, are we all brothers and sisters? I mean they were the only ones and then their children came and who did they have kids with if not their own sisters?

It must be hard looking down on us and that one of the observations that stands out is that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Still even in present days there are still Noah’s that make the world worth looking at. Like god said there are “generations of Noah's” and our generation has its good people. The best way to describe the way there is evil in the world but how the good outshines it is this speech done by Sam in “The Two Towers”:


I wonder if Noah's family felt guilty in the end knowing they were the only living humans or maybe they felt like v.i.p s. God is really into the whole “be fruitful and multiply business”. At the beginning he said it to Adam and Eve and now he tells it to Noah's family. Again we are faced with the whole are we sisters and brothers drama.

Still have lots of questions to explore but up to know it has been interesting reading the Bible.