A Bible study of a Thomas; Genesis 5: 1-32

Genesis 5

New International Version (NIV)

From Adam to Noah

5 This is the written account of Adam’s family line.

So it is another family tree thing for the first male this time not Cain who was in fairness one of Adams children.

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind”[a] when they were created.

Or did mankind make god in our image? Because you cannot be male and female at the same time, well actually you can but I have forgotten the conditions name but then why is it portrayed as a he? As even if he made mankind in his image “He created them male and female” now I know I have commented on this section before but at its first time of use over in chapter 1 which indicates as well as the less formal use of the word God which brings me onto the point of a patchwork bible.

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

If Adam (and Eve) only had his daughters after god had sent Cain away to the East where did Cain get his wife from? As he was curse by god for not fitting doing what god intended for him to do which is why god favoured his brother, Abel you don’t need a degree in phycology to work that one out so why was this all knowing god dumb struck by this? You may argue that it was Eve’s fault that this happened as she took the serpents advise and ate the apple therefore distorting gods original purpose of having us on this earth, but then if I may (which probably may not) it was gods fault for putting a tree in there that they couldn’t eat from in the first place and then he gave mankind the capacity for jealousy so much for the omnibenevolence of god, if he knew this was going to happen then he shouldn’t have bothered.

6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father[b] of Enosh. 7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. 8 Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

Now another thing I have noticed while reading this book is the ages of all of the parents are incredibly old, when they’re incredibly old for our times when this was written the majority of people that were alive about the times that this book was originally written the average life expectancy would most probably be approximately 30-40 years. So who were the authors of this book I unfortunately don’t know, but apparently it was wrote by Moses; was Moses a schizophrenic person/a person with multiple personalities if he ever existed. Who were Seth’s mates/partners for getting his children?  As unlike Cain who has nobody to procreate with Seth’s got all of his sisters and his mother to have sexual intercourse with; which is sick and sicker. Anyway you know Adam who literally made love with his own rib to get Cain, Abel, Seth and a couple of other people to go with them.

Now I’m not sure what makes me more sick was it Adam literally making love with his rib or Seth fucking a sister, and I was using the term fucking in a scientifically correct capacity as in making love with his sisters.

9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan. 10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. 11 Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

So Enosh lived for 90 and then he had his first born when he was old, and then in the 815 years after he had more sons and daughters if I had to die at any of the 3 ages of, 90 815 and 905 years I would choose 90 any day as if I managed to live to even 150 years can you imagine how fragile my bones would get I would be as fragile as a china doll.

12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

Kenan should be confused now as not only is his mother is technically an aunt and his father is technically his uncle, he now has to sleep with a sister or a cousin to carry on his gene chain which he does and then he gets Mehalaleh. But then he lives another hideously long length of time which is unusual as the children of an incestuous couple which all of the children would have been:

Elevated incidence of recessive genetic diseases
Reduced fertility both in litter size and in sperm viability
Increased congenital defects such as cryptorchidism, heart defects, cleft palates.
Fluctuating assymetry (such as crooked faces, or uneven eye placement and size).
Lower birthweight
Higher neonatal mortality
Slower growth rate
Smaller adult size, and
Loss of immune system function

But whichever way you look at it if this was the case we wouldn’t be here today if that was the case but my Christian friend had a good idea about Cain who typed “a local girl maybe” as an answer to the Cain dilemma so it may be another local girl that Mahalalel came out of but if what was it that then Eve Couldn’t be the mother of mankind  Genesis3: 20 “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”  which is a redundant title as you should already know that from this mythology it was god that created all of the animals before these two apes but in the International Standard Version (©2012) it says “Now Adam had named his wife "Eve," because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living.” which clarifies 3: 20 but that it doesn’t look very hopeful for any of the Christians that lived before 2012 God should really stop hating the Gays and get some words out correctly the first time around.

15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. 16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. 17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

Mehalaleh should have the same problems as his father but they’re getting more probable to have some of the conditions as you have the same Gene pool as with Seth’s just it has had 4/5 generations to develop depending on if you would like to Adam having sexual intercourse with his rib as incest or not.

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. 19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

Generation 5/6 without any new blood in the system incestuous levels reaching new heights and by this stage  they shouldn’t be actually be able to have a healthy child let alone one that lives to these extreme ages with the “Elevated incidence of recessive genetic diseases” and a “Loss of immune system function” but I’ll give them this much it took him 162 years to manage to get his first child it’s a sign of the ”Reduced fertility both in litter size and in sperm viability” taking its toll but then I have got to take it away from them straight away as he had other sons and daughters in the following 800 years, if I lived as long as he did according to this mythology before he had his first child I should try having sexual intercourse with a woman that is living and see what happens to me then I bet I’ll die.

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

As if I’d look at this again the suspected signs of the “Reduced fertility both in litter size and in sperm viability” have seemed to have dissipated and just look at the age of this one when he had his first son exactly the same age as Mehalaleh only 2 generations earlier so another reason why I do not give them credit for something that could be classed as scientifically accurate, But it could just down to when he actually “made love” to his mate that

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

Methuselah lived 187 years before he became the father of Lamech, but I have got another Idea that could be another reason for the lateness of getting wives pregnant within the 5/6^th generation and this generation, the 7/8^th, of incest.it could be that these people were too busy on working the land and herding the livestock to think about the “recreational” activity of sex.

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. 29 He named him Noah[c] and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

So Noah was a direct descendant of Adam in the ninth generation just as everyone else who is alive today? Now this book is absurd, but I know what is going to happen next, approximately, as god is about to throw a hissy fit and drown everyone on the face of the earth except Noah his triplets and whoever else is in Noah’s direct decedents.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Lamech who’s Noah’s father was 182 when Noah was born, which should mean that he was 682 by the time that he became a Grandfather to the three mentioned above. He only has 95 more years to live. While the 10^th generation is alive so the flood must happen when Noah is at least 595 during the first day of the rains which lasted for 40 days and 40 nights and then then we’ll know that it was god that killed Lamech in the flood, the omnibenevolence of this god has just flow half way across the universe. I admit that the three that I have dubbed triplets probably aren’t triplets.