The World and the Word

                          The Results of the Fall

God exiled Cain from his family out into the world where the pre-Adamic race lived. God also made farming much more difficult for Cain. God made Cain realize that the pre-Adamic people would recognize the curse in Cain, and they would kill him. Genesis 4:11-14.

Cain protested to God that he would be killed, so God put a special mark on Cain that God knew the pre-Adamic race would recognize as a sign of God's special protection. God did not relate what this mark was, but apparently, it signified to the pre-Adamic people that God would severely punish anyone who killed Cain. Genesis 4:15.

In Genesis 1:27, God created the pre-Adamic race in His image which meant He gave each of them a spirit which constituted a consciousness of God, but God did not give them souls. God gave Adam and Eve souls and spirits when He created them. Genesis 2:7. Having a soul means that one possesses free will, intelligence, personality, and emotions. The pre-Adamic race were better than the animals because they had a consciousness of God, but they only possessed a rudimentary form of intelligence and no free will. God proclaimed them to be "very good" when He scattered them over the earth which He could not have said about them if they had been the descendants of Adam and Eve. Genesis 1:31.

Cain moved away from his family to the east of Eden and married one of the pre-Adamic women. Adam and Eve and Cain possessed super intelligence. They had great talents and abilities to create new systems of every kind. The descendants of Cain inherited some of these talents and used them to build civilizations with all of the skills needed to maintain them. Genesis 4:16-22. The descendants of Cain also became the rulers over the pre-Adamic people. Genesis 4:23-24. But the pre-Adamic race also inherited some of the increased corruption that Cain had allowed to control his soul and spirit.

God continued the Adamic race through Seth and their other sons and daughters. During this period of human history, God continued to interact with the entire human race. God urged the Adamic race to continue to offer the blood sacrifices, and He persisted in touching the spirits of the pre-Adamic race to cause them to remain cognizant of Him as their Creator. During this time, the Spirit of God prevailed over the evil in man's being which caused all humans to worship God. Nevertheless, the evil within the beings of the Adamic race, and which Cain passed on to the pre-Adamic race, still remained. Genesis 4:25-26.

The faithful lineage of Seth extended over hundreds of years to Noah and his family. Genesis 5:6-32. Except for the lineage of Seth, the Adamic and pre-Adamic races intermarried, but they all persisted in their worship of God because he still interacted with them to protect them from the ravages of evil. They all sinned from time to time, but God forgave them because the Adamic race offered the blood sacrifices, and the pre-Adamic race continued to worship God in their spirits.