jeanna's thoughts on Day 1

OK, i'm already behind :(
But here are a few thoughts of mine:

1. Gen 4:26 At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD.
Why would they begin to call on the name of the Lord? Why were they not doing that before? andy seems to think it's because adam and eve had a face to face relationship w/ God while in the garden (w/ the pre-incarnate Jesus), but once they left the garden, they also lost that form of relationship and thus, w/ the kids - cain/ abel/ seth - they called on God. ie. 2nd and 3rd generation didn't have the personal encounter w/ God and thus they had to walk by faith in their relationship w/ God.

2. gen 5 - how do you think they came up w/ names when they had kids. we just look at a baby book or we say - hum, these are the names we've heard that we like... but they didn't have any of that. do you think that they just thought - what sounds like a name?? or maybe they prayed and God helped them w/ names??

3. gen 5: 21-23 in 3 short verses, it speaks volumes of enoch's life and what his relationship w/ God might have been like.

4. gen 5:29 "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed." what does it mean that God has cursed this land? i think it means that God has removed His blessing and it doesn't produce fruit as it did in the garden of eden. that explains a lot of what we see today.