Can somebody please explain to me what happened in the time between "Adam and Eve" and Jesus?

Question

It just seems like people came out of nowhere.
I really hope hope we all didnt come from two white people. That would be troubling.

Seems like the Christians think there were several events that god induced that limited the human population to a handfull of people.
I think that is what science calls a bottleneck. If only the Pious survive, we are evolving to be god fearing. Its natural selection at work

Answer 1

uhhmmm, there was a flood, an old man spoke to a burning bush, fighting, lots of fighting, a baby was found floating in the nile, jews went all over the place, there was a bright star, donkey and a stable, and voila, a baby jesus!

Answer 2

Many parts of the bible are not original to it, but came from legends much farther in the past and much prior to Judaism.
The great flood for example is found in The Sumerian myth of Ziusudra tells how the god Enki warns Ziusudra (meaning "he saw life," in reference to the gift of immortality given him by the gods), king of Shuruppak, of the gods' decision to destroy mankind in a flood - the passage describing why the gods have decided this is lost. Enki instructs Ziusudra to build a large boat - the text describing the instructions is also lost. After a flood of seven days, Ziusudra makes appropriate sacrifices and prostrations to An (sky-god) and Enlil (chief of the gods), and is given eternal life in Dilmun (the Sumerian Eden) by Anuand Enlil.
Also In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, toward the end of the He who saw the deep version by Sin-liqe-unninn, there are references to a great flood.
And there are many others that predate the Torah.
And the creation of man the Shilluks of the White Nile, who ingeniously explain the different complexions of the various races by the different colored clay out of which they were fashioned. They say that the creator Juok molded all men of earth, and that while he was engaged in the work of creation he wandered about the world creating the races.
The Babylonian creation of man is recounted in the "Epic of Creation" also known as the Enûma Elish. The Mesopotamian "Epic of Creation" dates to the late second millennium B.C.E.
Many were in existance long before Judaism began which is dated somewhere between 400 to 800 BCE when the torah was written. Though some claim it began at the time of Abraham (2000BCE). But that would leave 1200 years stories and tales, handed down from generation to generation, father to son, with all the embelishments that man has honed.
I admit a bit of embelishment on Paul’s “awakening”, however that had been God’s way in the past and who’s to say the bright light didn’t come from a bush.
I do reiterate that the Gospels were written well after the time of the crucifixion and even after the letters of Paul. In which he imparts the divinity of Jesus as he expounds on the written Gospels….(Which had not been written yet.) For it appears he is trying to convince them in his belief. (Romans 1.11-13 and 1 Corinthians 1.10, 11.)
I also reiterate that Gospels were embelished and intermingled with myths of other dieties of the time and miracles of entertainment for the audience.
As you stated most Christians base their faith on the words contained in the 66 books of the Bible. Of that I have no doubt. It was inspired by God, that doesn’t mean he took an interest for it to be true.
Man has said it is true.

Answer 3

The first humans (no matter what you believe) were either Sumeric (from the current Iraq) or black from eastern Africa. As to the rest--didn't you take world history in school? Would have covered most of that preiod. The Bible would add some details.

Answer 4

Well if you start reading at Genesis Chapter 2 and keep reading until Matthew Chapter 2, you'll know.

Who said they were white? One could have been white, one could have been black, they both could have been what we would call "mixed race". The Bible really doesn't address that one- probably because race doesn't matter to God at all.

Answer 5

Simple: God decided to wait 4,000 years before doing anything about the Fall, although somehow it didn't absolve us entirely.

Answer 6

There are 39 books in the Bible dealing with that one, I would not know where to start.

Answer 7

Why not open your Bible to Genesis and start reading until you get to Matthew, then stop.



Now you know...

Answer 8

90% of the old testment

Answer 9

Old guy 63, has a clue.

Answer 10

it would be easier for you to just read the bible