Jebored and Sipina had no simple answer. Jebored said, "God must have blessed us. We are at fault not seeing all along God was providing for our blessing. We knew to follow our conscience, which we did not stop listening to, and we observed the ways of our fathers, and mothers, before us. We...
Jenida noticed that the older generations were not aging fast, a number of them were still known to be around. She asked Jebored and Sipina about that. "Why are younger people aging faster, and some have died off, but not both of you."
What could it be, but God was blessing Jebored and Sipina, who also had abundant harvests continually, and God was not blessing Malchinor and his wife, who died the soonest among all they knew of that generation? Malchinor's flocks were not with the healthiest looking animals. They had no heirs...
When Malchinor saw that many were displeased with Jebored and Sipina, his heart was lifted up. He encouraged those people, not living very far away, and told them they needed a teacher to lead them, and would not subvert the old ways but live true to them. And so he gained a following. He spoke...
Jebored and Sipina only found out about things being said about them much later. They had gone to see one those not living very far away, a man noticeably older than them, who was widowed, Lazebal. They had met with him a few times at which they would speak of needs and concerns with each other...
God knows when those contrary to God will work what they can for an agenda for that. God permits that... for a while. God is not limited from knowing how to work with it to turn that against them.
Malchinor was spreading malicious gossip about Jebored and Sipina, so that others not living so...
Because of the good communication from Jebored and Sipina, they had mostly good neighbors among those others not living very far away, who then sought the ways of God. But Malchinor thought it undesirable for people to trust what he could not see, and he was sure the right way to live would be...
The Creator, Yahweh who is God, meaning Supreme Being, has creation showing abundantly enough for any that God is there, as Creator over it all. Still people generally turn further to forgetting about God who is not visibly seen, though God answers any who search for God answering. Most of the...
With all that destruction on all the land, what would be left? There would not be enough for food for people to eat, from that. The family that survived all the destruction on the earth with being preserved with all the life on the ark were already familiar with the previous people who perished...
There were many people in the world, they still all followed one another into more corrupt living apart from their Creator and what was meant for them, while threatening and harming others, human and nonhuman creatures altogether. And they did not listen to the preaching and the warnings, and...
Melchian's young relative Noah cared a great deal about the ways the Creator meant for people, and sought to live according to that as much as he could. People besides those of the line of Methusalah the great patriarch were showing wickedness among them more and more as the years went by. Even...
Some were using sacrifices of certain animals from flocks kept for material and clothing they would have, for occasion to get cooked flesh, the meat, to eat, while others in general still did not. While the Creator still had not revealed permission to have anything from animals of the creation...
Melchian brought one sheep from his flock to altar at the center of the settlement. The two attendants there said, "You cannot bring this one for a sacrifice!"
Melchian responded, "What do you mean? I certainly get to make a sacrifice to the High One too."
The one there of the two who went on...
With the original flocks kept for provision for material to wear, and acknowledging the need of provision from God, sacrifice from flocks kept began, for calling on God and worship of God.
There were ways of understanding what God would be, from the earliest times then. Ideas of what God is has...
The Creator, Yahweh, unlimited essential being, made all of the heavens and this earth, at the beginning, and it was not a world of suffering. As the Creator is perfect with perfect goodness, so this was in the Creator's creation from the beginning. Yahweh made the light and separated it from...