blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
I'm reading through Genesis now during my daily Bible reading (still on schedule, praise the Lord). As I try and picture myself living during that time, I wonder how/what they knew about the things of God, being so early on in man's history, at a time before most (any?) of the scriptures had been written.
Gen 6:5,6 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
What resource(s) did the people have back then to know how they were supposed to think and act? Gen 7:1-3 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
When God told Noah to take clean beasts and not clean beasts, how did Noah know which was which? Do we assume that the scriptures are silent about how he knew, and that either 1) God had previously told him which were which or 2) after God made the statement, Noah asked which was which?Gen 26:4,5 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
What commandments, statutes, and laws did Abraham obey? Are these the same as what Moses wrote down? If so, how'd Abraham know them so he could obey them?