{"id":6921,"date":"2023-11-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2023-05-27T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T14:55:18","slug":"looking-at-andrew-ter-ern-lokes-book-2022-the-origin-of-humanity-and-evolution-part-20-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6921","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Andrew Ter Ern Loke&#8217;s Book (2022) &#8221; The Origin of Humanity and Evolution&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Part 20 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0169 Even though the theological implications of&nbsp;<em>the coincidence between the stories of Adam and Eve and the Ubaid archaeological period of southern Mesopotamia<\/em>&nbsp;may seem far removed from&nbsp;<em>Loke&#8217;s proposal that Adam and Eve are the first ancestors to receive the label, &#8220;image of God&#8221;,<\/em>&nbsp;the distance is not so great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0170 First,&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>&nbsp;associates to&nbsp;<em>the creation of humans in the image of God<\/em>&nbsp;(in the first chapter of Genesis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second,&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;associates with Adam and Eve receiving the spoken honorific, &#8220;Image Bearers of God&#8221;, and then promptly disobeying the only commandment that God gives them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0171 Section 5.8.2 discusses an awkward difficulty that arises with Adam getting awarded the appellation, &#8220;Image Bearer of God&#8221;, that presumably passes to his sons, Cain and Abel.&nbsp;&nbsp;Okay&#8230; let me correct that&#8230; to their (at the time) only remaining son, Cain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cain runs away, finds a wife, then moves off to start a city.&nbsp;&nbsp;Loke wonders whether Cain&#8217;s wife is merely an animal that happens to be an anatomically modern human.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, is she created as&nbsp;<em>an image of God,<\/em>&nbsp;yet is not aware that God could give someone the spoken honorific, &#8220;Image Bearer of God&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0172 Razie Mah&#8217;s masterwork,&nbsp;<em>An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>&nbsp;(available at smashwords and other e-book venues), treats the awkward issue as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Cain murders Abel, he complains to God that others (the ones without the rapidly devaluing honorific, &#8220;Image Bearer of God&#8221;) will kill him.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, God puts a mark on Cain.&nbsp;&nbsp;That mark happens to be&nbsp;<em>the body paint of high-ranking warrior in the village harboring Cain&#8217;s wife-to-be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, when Cain walks into the village wearing such marks, everyone freaks out.&nbsp;&nbsp;The shaman tries to put an end to Cain, but ends up accidently killing&nbsp;<em>the number one warrior in the village<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Then, the shaman falls face down before Cain and Cain impetuously kills him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to celebrate, Cain&#8217;s future bride (along with her team mates) take the body of the dead warrior and cook up a batch of delicious porridge.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is proud of herself and is disappointed when Cain (after realizing that the meat in the porridge comes from the dead warrior) decides to not finish off his bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0173 Yes, communication in speech-alone talk can be treacherous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tell someone, &#8220;Get that body out of here and bring me something to eat.&#8221;, and see what gets served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0169 Even though the theological implications of&nbsp;the coincidence between the stories of Adam and Eve and the Ubaid archaeological period of southern Mesopotamia&nbsp;may seem far removed from&nbsp;Loke&#8217;s proposal that Adam and Eve are the first ancestors to receive the label, &#8220;image of God&#8221;,&nbsp;the distance is not so great. 0170 First,&nbsp;the Lebenswelt that we evolved in&nbsp;associates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,142,156,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","category-first-singularity","category-genesis-1-11","category-our-current-lebenswelt-is-not-the-lebenswelt-that-we-evolved-in"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking at Andrew Ter Ern Loke&#039;s Book (2022) &quot; 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