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with attached timescales impossible to determine. Many of the Genesis stories are
parables (Psalm 78:1-2).

‘Sons of’ (Gen 10:1), ‘son’ (Mat 9:27) and ‘begotten’ (Hos 5:7) can just as easily
mean many intervening descendents and generations as much as a direct, one
generation descendent. Throughout the Word a people group can be referred to as
an individual e.g. Israel in Exodus 4:22 which is described as being a ‘son’
showing that people groups are entities for judgement as are Nations (Rev 11:18).
A people group can even be a ‘me’, ‘my’ or ‘I’ (Isaiah 49:2, 4) and be birthed in a
‘womb’ (Isaiah 48:8). In this last case there is a sudden identity switch to Jesus
(Isaiah 49:5-6, Luke 2:32). The Church also has one ‘mind’ (Phil 2:2) and one
Spirit (Phil 1:27) which is to be expected as it has as a mystery one body, Christ’s,
despite being made up of many saints (1 Cor 10:16, 12:27, Eph 4:12), of which
Christ is also, as a mystery, the Head (Eph 5:23) and of which, as a further
mystery, we eat (1 Cor 10:16). This is what is meant by being with a fellow
believer ‘in spirit’ i.e. in the one joint Spirit of all the Church (Col 2:5).

Complete intermixing between the sons of men and the sons of God (here meaning
men living in the 'interface' area of Earth with the parabolical Garden of Eden) was
established from the outset (Gen 6:2, 16:3). Indeed Israel itself came out of another
nation (Deut 4:34) and inhabited a land that previously belonged to other peoples
(Ex 13:5, Joshua 1:4, Psalm 44:1-3, Acts 7:4). The same applies to Jerusalem (1
Chron 11:4). God’s choice was potentially replaceable (Deut 9:14) and arbitrary in
that it focused simply on the a people that lived in the Garden of Eden’s supposed
parabolical location on Earth (Deut 10:15). God’s choice of them was a episodic
process (Deut 9:14) which did not culminate until various points in time were
reached and events took place such as are described in Deut 27:9 and Deut 29:13.

The early Sons of God parabolically 'lived' for centuries and this is a parable
(Psalm 78:1-2). The timespans involved in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 10 are
minimum periods as two individuals can have the same name. In addition some of
the names are God-given and are mysterious to us and could mean whole races,
groups or lineages (Gen 10:2-5, 1 Chron 1:1).

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the Law (Rom 3:19-20, 4:15, 7:7)
which involves death (Gen 2:17) and is a curse (Gen 3:17). It is the awareness of
and responsibility for the state of flesh and its redemption (Romans 3:20). The
flesh is unacceptable to God as it embodies the first Earth (Gen 2:7, Psalm 51:5)
diseased by Satan’s and the angels’ fall which, although representing a spiritual
force, was 'concentrated' upon the physical creation or Earth in the first parabolical