Wash.
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I know it may be a tad bit late to chime in on this question, but I thought I'd address another issue.
Scanning through the answers, I didn't see an answer for one of your last questions in the original post: Was Abraham a caveman or something?
Well, I'd like to answer that question now! I did a 10 page paper on refining ore in the middle east area. (copper, tin, bronze, iron, steel, etc.) Using that as a reference to technological advancements in early man-kind, I wanted to give a brief overview of how far man had come by Abraham's time. First of, the time between Adam and Eve to Noah had drastic technological advancements, such as civilization building, that is cities where people lived in a community, trade between those cities, ironworking, and other technologies that are considerably advanced compared to the millions of years that scientists tried to afford mankind. The flood kind of reset everything though, if you consider only 4 men lived to reinvent the world, it took time for those technologies to resurface. In any case, we can see in Gen 11 the building of the tower of babel, so clearly technologies once more were advanced quickly in a relatively short amount of time.
As archaeology permits, we can see that around 6,000 years ago, the resurfacing of copper weaponry and tools became a cornerstone in the continuing advancement of societies. We'll say Abraham probably lived around this time, when copper was the main metal used, eventually bronze developed as well. Sociologically, Abraham was more of a cheiftain leader than the father of a family. He lead a good number of servants, livestock, and riches nomadically throughout the palestinian area (modern day iran, jordan, israel, etc.). From him came the nation we call Israel, through his son Isaac and then on to Jacob (who was renamed Israel by God) In short, the mantle of cheiftain travelled down this way. But you'll see they rarely actually owned land. In fact, the first land they owned was the field that Abraham bought to bury Sarah in. In addition, throughout Scripture you see the different areas Abraham travelled through where he feared for his life because of her beauty - at the hands of the leader of those people in the area that remained there. If you recall, a few times he was asked to leave because his number was too great or he had upset locals.
Anyways, in short - Abraham wasn't a caveman. The caveman period was probably short as Adam and Eve were more or less super-genius creations of God, as were their children.
Scanning through the answers, I didn't see an answer for one of your last questions in the original post: Was Abraham a caveman or something?
Well, I'd like to answer that question now! I did a 10 page paper on refining ore in the middle east area. (copper, tin, bronze, iron, steel, etc.) Using that as a reference to technological advancements in early man-kind, I wanted to give a brief overview of how far man had come by Abraham's time. First of, the time between Adam and Eve to Noah had drastic technological advancements, such as civilization building, that is cities where people lived in a community, trade between those cities, ironworking, and other technologies that are considerably advanced compared to the millions of years that scientists tried to afford mankind. The flood kind of reset everything though, if you consider only 4 men lived to reinvent the world, it took time for those technologies to resurface. In any case, we can see in Gen 11 the building of the tower of babel, so clearly technologies once more were advanced quickly in a relatively short amount of time.
As archaeology permits, we can see that around 6,000 years ago, the resurfacing of copper weaponry and tools became a cornerstone in the continuing advancement of societies. We'll say Abraham probably lived around this time, when copper was the main metal used, eventually bronze developed as well. Sociologically, Abraham was more of a cheiftain leader than the father of a family. He lead a good number of servants, livestock, and riches nomadically throughout the palestinian area (modern day iran, jordan, israel, etc.). From him came the nation we call Israel, through his son Isaac and then on to Jacob (who was renamed Israel by God) In short, the mantle of cheiftain travelled down this way. But you'll see they rarely actually owned land. In fact, the first land they owned was the field that Abraham bought to bury Sarah in. In addition, throughout Scripture you see the different areas Abraham travelled through where he feared for his life because of her beauty - at the hands of the leader of those people in the area that remained there. If you recall, a few times he was asked to leave because his number was too great or he had upset locals.
Anyways, in short - Abraham wasn't a caveman. The caveman period was probably short as Adam and Eve were more or less super-genius creations of God, as were their children.
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lucky for us we have the holy spirit to help us.