Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
was sexual. When Adam and Eve sinned they covered their genitals, not their mouths,
indicating they sinned not with their mouths but with their genitals. The punishment God put on
them also affected sexual reproduction: He caused the woman to have menstrual cycles and
to have increased pain in childbirth. God's curse also put enmity between the descendants of
Adam (e.g., Abel) and the descendants of the serpent (e.g., Abel's murderer Cain).
• The Birth. (Gen 4) At the birth of Cain, Eve said "I have gotten a man from the Lord."
Proponents claim that in the remaining two pre-Flood chapters, Adam's descendants are called
the "sons of God", not "men", while the word "men" refers solely to the descendants of Cain.
Eve was also called "the mother of all living" (Gen 3:20), but Adam was not similarly called "the
father of all living".
• The Offspring. (Gen 4) Cain and Abel were of different occupational backgrounds. Abel
tended the flocks and Cain tilled the ground. Proponents claim these traits were inherited from
their fathers; Adam was to rule over the animals and the serpent was intended to tend the
Garden of Eden. Another difference between them was that Abel, being of pure birth, knew
how to give a proper sacrifice to God. Cain, not being pure, did not know how to give a proper
sacrifice, he only knew he needed to give one, indicating he was only inherited a portion of the
knowledge that Abel had inherited. His impurity was also displayed by his jealousy and murder
of Abel, some proponents argue that these are not traits God would have created in Adam and
Eve and could not have been inherited from them.
• The Two Lines of Descent. (Gen 4-5) Some proponents claim that because the two
lines of descent are recorded separately it indicates they were somehow different. It notes how
the developments in Cain's sides were all negative (e.g. Lamech's declaration in Gen 4:23 that
"I have slain a man to my wounding".) But in Seth's line (Gen. 5) nothing is mentioned of
anything evil, and each patriarch "begat sons and daughters". Ultimately, the two lines
intermarry (Gen 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the
sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same
became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."), and God then destroyed the world
with a flood. Proponents also point to the biological principle of heterosis being evidenced in
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