Since the first time I read the Bible, it was clear to me that the 'story' that the 'churches' tell is not the same 'story' that the Bible tells.
In the first chapter of Genesis, on the sixth day it states that God created 'man'. But not only man, but man and woman. And they were told to be fruitful and multiply. It also states that God had given them every herb and every tree that bears fruit 'on the face of the earth' to be for food.
Then in the second chapter it says that "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them".
This is a pretty profound statement. It states that God was 'done' with the 'days of creation' and on the seventh day He rested.
Then the Bible states that:
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Note that it does not say 'before there were any plants'. It states clearly 'of the field'. A 'field' is a 'prepared parcel of land'. Something 'created' for cultivation.
And the Bible does 'not' say that there were 'no men'. It states clearly that there was 'not a man to TILL' the earth.
We know for a 'fact' that in the beginning, (even according to the Bible), that men were nomadic gatherers long before they learned to cultivate plants for food. They simply went out and hunted and picked and dug whatever food grew wild.
It took perhaps tens of thousands of years before men learned to actually 'grow' their own food. No need to learn to grow food if it grew plentiful in nature. You simply gather until you have to go too far from your home and then simply pack up what little you own and move to a new clean water source with plenty of 'wild food'.
If we take this into consideration, the obviousness is that there were 'two separate' creations of men.
The first were created and told to be fruitful and multiply. This obviously wasn't told to Adam and Eve for they didn't even know they were naked when they were created. If they didn't understand the concept of nakedness, it is unlikely that they would have known anything about sex or procreation.
And it states that the first creation was given access to every tree bearing fruit upon the face of the earth to be for food.
Yet when God created Adam, he was placed in a garden and commanded that there was 'a' tree he was forbidden to partake.
That means that if Adam were the first man, the offering of ALL trees on the face of the Earth could not be true. For God told Adam that there was 'one tree' he was forbidden to eat from. Contradiction? Only if you believe that Adam was the first man. For the first men were 'not' given any such commandment.
And note that there is a difference in the story of the 'first creation' verses Adam.
When God created Adam the Bible states that God breathed into Adam the 'breath of life' and Adam became a 'living soul'. The Bible states no such thing concerning the 'first creation'.
Then Adam and Eve had two children. NO mention of any 'other children'. Just two male children: Cain and Abel. Not one mention of 'any' other children.
Cain killed his brother. God confronted Cain. He placed a mark upon Cain so that any that would 'see him' would know what he had done. Really? Since there were only three people on the planet according to the 'churches', 'who' would see Cain that didn't already 'know' what he had done????? And then Cain says that everyone that sees the mark will want to kill him. 'Who'? If the only other three people on the planet already know what he has done, how could a mark make them want to kill him? So who is Cain concerned with seeing his mark? Obviously even Adam, Eve and Cain already 'knew' there were 'other people'. For Cain would have nothing to fear if there were 'no other people' on the planet except for his parents and siblings.
Continued.