Another question.

[Edwin]

Adam was 130 years old when seth was born.

 

Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 

 

We are not told just how old Adam and Eve were when Cain and Able were born, but if we speculate and say that Cain was an adult, say 30 years old.

 

Then it would indicate that they must have been a 100 years old when they started to reproduce, and then only after the fall to fulfill what God commanded them to do immediately after He had created them.

 

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 

Why, I wonder did it take them a 100 years before they obeyed His first command to them.

 

Edwin.

[ayin jade]

You wonder why they waited 100 yrs, but its based on your speculation that cain was 30. He could just as easily have been 129 yrs. 

[OneLight]

There are some questions that just don't have biblical answers.  Where scripture is silent, shouldn't we follow suit?  All our questions will be answered in the next life.

[Guest Teditis]

Again there isn't enough information to assume/speculate much about these things.

Though I will agree that it's fun to muse over.

 

We know from Scripture that Adam lived 980 years and begat sons and daughters

but  we simply don't know the order of birth for all of Adam & Eves

children, nor the number of children that they had.

 

And as you say, you're speculating that Cain was 30... he may have just as easily

been 70. Furthermore you added the word "immediately" in your speculation... I didn't 

see that in Scripture?

[Guest shiloh357]

Adam was 130 years old when seth was born.

 

Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 

 

We are not told just how old Adam and Eve were when Cain and Able were born, but if we speculate and say that Cain was an adult, say 30 years old.

 

Then it would indicate that they must have been a 100 years old when they started to reproduce, and then only after the fall to fulfill what God commanded them to do immediately after He had created them.

 

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 

Why, I wonder did it take them a 100 years before they obeyed His first command to them.

 

Edwin.

It needs to be pointed out that the Bible doesn't really tell us how much time has elapsed between chapters.  When we read the Bible is important to understand that from Adam to the Tower of Babel is about 2,500 years.  We tend to think things happened in rapid immediate succession, but they didn't.

[other one]

Adam was 130 years old when seth was born.

 

Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 

 

We are not told just how old Adam and Eve were when Cain and Able were born, but if we speculate and say that Cain was an adult, say 30 years old.

 

Then it would indicate that they must have been a 100 years old when they started to reproduce, and then only after the fall to fulfill what God commanded them to do immediately after He had created them.

 

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 

Why, I wonder did it take them a 100 years before they obeyed His first command to them.

 

Edwin.

Edwin, we seem to only hear about the males in that pre flood writings......    there is no way to know if they had a bunch of girls or not......    wives had to come from somewhere, and they were the only two to have them for a while.

Understand that is only speculation on my part, but it helps me understand where Cain's wife and others came from.

[other one]

 

Adam was 130 years old when seth was born.

 

Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 

 

We are not told just how old Adam and Eve were when Cain and Able were born, but if we speculate and say that Cain was an adult, say 30 years old.

 

Then it would indicate that they must have been a 100 years old when they started to reproduce, and then only after the fall to fulfill what God commanded them to do immediately after He had created them.

 

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 

Why, I wonder did it take them a 100 years before they obeyed His first command to them.

 

Edwin.

It needs to be pointed out that the Bible doesn't really tell us how much time has elapsed between chapters.  When we read the Bible is important to understand that from Adam to the Tower of Babel is about 2,500 years.  We tend to think things happened in rapid immediate succession, but they didn't.

 

It's also interesting to think that Adam lived for a little more than a third of the time to the tower of Babel also.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Edwin...

     Perhaps Teditis made a typing error but Adam lived to be 930 yrs old....in any event.......having a lifespan of nearly 1000 years makes  having a child at 13o pretty quickly ,doesn't it? Anyway,,,,God never said anything about sooner or later or immediate

                                                                                                      With love-in Christ,Kwik

[Ozzy]

Remember that the story of Adam and Eve and their 900+ years of life are contained into just about 10 pages! We ABSOLUTELY do not know everything there is to know about them. One assumption most people make is that Cain and Abel were the first two children born. There are merely the first two mentioned because of the major plot of Cain and Satan to kill Abel. But one thing to note is that after that event when God is banishing Cain, he is afraid that ALL the other people around are going to kill him. What other people? If Cain and Abel were the only two around, who would be there to kill him? It seems evident that Adam and Eve had already been having children, probably as soon as they left the garden, and there were lots of sons and daughters, who also had been reproducing. Then the next great notable event was the birth of Seth, who was a righteous man.

[clark thompson]

I don't think Adam did wait that long, it mentions he children it does for a reason but it mention he had other sons ad daughters. The bible lists Cain because he symbolized running from which started when he killed Abel and Seth is who Noah and the rest the of the world post flood our desendents of.