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  The Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills I described in my previous email ( CLICK HERE ) affect much more than how people read their Bible. Exploring Biblical Heritages Skills affect the realities of those using them.   Realities are produced by the brain. They determine how individuals view their world and assign meanings to what they see .   Today science knows that believing is a biological process. What that means is human organs function according to the DNA that created them. Hearts pump blood, stomachs digest food, and brains ingest information provided by sensory organs – especially eyes and ears . The brain creates belief models from information it receives and then assigns values to its belief models.   The brain uses its most valued belief models to create and then “live stream” the realities we experience as life !   For more information about this process click on The Brain: Our Reality Generator . In light of the above information, when new info

  Exploring Our Biblical Heritages is a science-based educational approach for reading the Bible. The Biblical Heritage Center, Inc. is not a religious organization, therefore we do not require people to accept, adopt or believe an institutional theology. We do expect those who participate with others in our explorations to agree to follow this guideline:   My belief system will be large enough to include all facts, open enough to be examined and questioned, and flexible enough to change if errors or new facts are discovered.   This guideline creates the open and safe environment required for exploring the biblical text. It also gives all participants permission to examine and question each other’s beliefs and a plan for what happens if errors or new facts are discovered.   Beliefs About the Bible   All Explorers of Biblical Heritages have beliefs about Bibles, while most Explorers also have beliefs based on the words in their Bible. Unlike Bible studies that tak

  I ended the previous email by asking you to choose one of the four options for translating Chavvah’s (Eve) words. My choice is #3 -- I have created a man with the help of Yahweh. I chose it because of what Yahweh said to her in the Garden -- “ I will multiply your pregnancies .” That conclusion is supported by the fact that after speaking those words, she gave birth to Cain’s twin brother Abel.   Genesis now jumps from their births to Cain being a farmer and Abel a shepherd. Keep in mind that this is an ancient wisdom text that teaches readers principles about how to walk with God in your life. In the previous story, Adam’s encounter with the snake taught us important wisdom principles. What will be the key event in this story that will teach us the next wisdom principles? The answer is one of the strangest stories in the Bible!   Nothing has been said about Yahweh since He drove Adam and Eve from His Garden. Now, in Genesis 4:3, we learn that Yahweh had set an appointed time for

  Adam returned to the ADAMAH (soil) from which Yahweh the God formed him, but for Eve this was a new place. They are living with the consequences of their actions in the Garden. Since they are no longer in the Garden, they must do the things necessary for survival -- first for themselves and second for the survival of mankind . The author uses a technique that compress lengths of time into a sentence or two. It is important to be conscious of this as you read Genesis 4. It opens with these words:   And Adam knew his woman Chavvah (Eve), she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.   The Hebrew word YADA has the following meanings, “ to know by mental activity ” or “ to know by physical experience .” The word YADA is a well-known Hebrew euphemism for “ having sex .” The knowledge Adam acquired from the forbidden tree was also YADA “ acquired by a physical experience .”   ● Adam knew Chavvah – The text doesn’t reveal how long they had been in their new land when

    Yahweh told Adam that if he ate the forbidden fruit he would die. But now the biblical text reveals something very unexpected in Genesis 3:22b.   “And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever . . .”   Even though Adam was guilty of breaking Yahweh’s commandment and the process of dying had begun:   Eating from the Tree of Life could still keep Adam alive forever .   Make sure to note that the Tree of Life is the source of eternal life .   Adam became like the Tree of Knowledge of TOV and RAH when he did an act of RAH . Now there is only one way to keep Adam from eating from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:23-24).   Yahweh the God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.   Yahweh drove Adam out the Garden. Yahweh placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.   Adam beg

  Review of Previous Email ( CLICK HERE TO READ )   ● Yahweh will multiply hardship, pain and suffering in general, and the raising of children in particular, in the lives of Adam and Eve.   ● Yahweh will multiply Eve’s pregnancies.   ● Eve’s desire shall be towards Adam and they are to rule together.   ● Yahweh cursed the ground in which the plants that are food for Adam and Eve grow. Thorns and thistles will now grow among the food plants.   ● Adam will have to labor much harder to produce food.   ● Adam knows at some point in time he will die and become dirt again.   Now let’s continue with the story (Genesis 3:20-24).   I have been calling the humans Adam and Eve because those are the names translators have used in English translations of the Bible American’s read. Those names are not in the ancient Hebrew text, so you need to be aware of what they were called in the ancient text until now.   ● The man was referred to as ADAM by the unnamed narr