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Nov 20, 2006, 02:12 PM
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Ist Question in the Bible
What is the first question, in the Bible, asked of God by Man? And God doesn't answer.
Some people think the rest of the bible is the answer. Your thoughts please.
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Nov 20, 2006, 03:13 PM
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"Am I my brother's keeper?" ;)
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Nov 21, 2006, 03:19 AM
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Genesis 3: 1... Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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Nov 21, 2006, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Starman
Genesis 3: 1...Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Adam asked Eve that question. Gecko asked what the first question man asked God ;)
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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Nov 21, 2006, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by RickJ
Adam asked Eve that question. gecko asked what the first question man asked God ;)
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Sorry! I didn't see that. Thanks for pointing it out.
BTW
It was Satan who asked Eve that question.
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Nov 21, 2006, 12:04 PM
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Haha, oops. Yes, of course you are correct :)
Gecko, where are you? Do I get a prize :p
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Nov 26, 2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by gecko5
What is the first question, in the Bible, asked of God by Man? And God doesn't answer.
Some people think the rest of the bible is the answer. Your thoughts please.
The first question in the old Testament is "hath God said, 'Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
The second question is, 'Adam ... Where art thou?"
The third question is, "Who told thee that thou [wast] naked?"
The fourth question is, "Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?["/COLOR]
The fifth question is, "What [is] this [that] thou hast done?"
The sixth, seventh, and eight questions are, "Why art thou wroth? Why is thy countenance fallen? and "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?"
The ninth and tenth questions are, "Where [is] Abel thy brother?" and "Am I my brother's keeper?"
I believe that your question refers to the tenth question. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
However, I do not believe that the rest of the Bible is the answer to the question. At the juncture at which this question is asked, the book of Genesis has already dealth with sacrifice, thus forewhadowing the sacrifice of the Son of God, and the atonement, and raising the possibility of salvation for those who enter into covenant with God and his Son, and the relationshoip between man and God and the nature of salvation form a large part of the biblical writings.
Human relationships and interactions are very important in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all Bible based faiths, and their teachinmgs in this area have many remarkable similarities.
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Nov 26, 2006, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by RickJ
"Am I my brother's keeper?" ;)
Although I am confidant that is the question he had in mind, it is the tenth question in the Bible.
M:)
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Nov 27, 2006, 03:44 AM
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Just for clarity, the question was "what was the first question asked of God by man.
Cain's question of God was the first... and it was not answered. ;)
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Nov 27, 2006, 05:43 AM
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So many questions and we're all still searching for the answers!
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Nov 27, 2006, 06:27 AM
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Hehe, yes indeed :)
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Nov 27, 2006, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by RickJ
Just for clarity, the question was "what was the first question asked of God by man.
Cain's question of God was the first...and it was not answered. ;)
It seems the question was rhetorical, and did not require an answer. Cain was defiantly saying, "I am NOT my brother's keeper!"
Although there is no response recorded from Elohim, it should not be taken to mean that God did not answer. It seems unlikely that the few terse sentences between God and man contained in Genesis, and in other monographs, include all that was said.
That would have been a time to have been a fly on the wall.
M:)
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