One Single God: [Not applicable]

By Alberto Canen

THE WHY BEHIND THE CREATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

The transcendental task of the Chosen People. The policies of the Catholic Church. The end of polytheism.
The Chosen People – Chosen for what? Adam and Eve – The first of humankind, or simply the first of the Hebrew people?
The Jews – Were they the Army of God?
If there is only one single God, then what happened to the other gods of antiquity?
Jesus: Is He God or a prophet?  Why a Messiah?
Has the Messiah already come?
From what does Jesus free humanity?
The Bible – What are you talking about?

Alberto Canen has found answers to these questions and to other questions that have disturbed us many times and that we have not been able to resolve. By going through the texts of the Bible with the author, the reader will see that a plot is revealed in its pages before his very eyes. You will feel the same attraction and curiosity that a detective experiences when unraveling a mystery, or an archaeologist when facing a new discovery. Upon discovering the guiding thread of this sacred chronicle, loose ends are tied up, stories are joined together, and pieces are examined in order to understand one of the best known and – perhaps – least understood stories of Humanity.

In this text, biblical quotes are merged with interpretations that arise spontaneously and captivatingly, which is why it is so absorbing to read.

Alberto Canen invites us to make this discovery. Through a conversation with his youngest son – in a direct, simple and didactic style – he shares his methodological reflections and original conclusions with the reader as an accomplice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071541517

Alberto Canen

Alberto Canen (Argentina-1962) Escritor y periodista.Desde 1999 a 2016 fue editor de paginadigital.com.ar portal de mas de 150.000 paginas.En diciembre de 2003 ganó el premio Mate-ar al mejor sitio de arte y cultura, y fue el ganador del Premio Pymes Clarín 2008.Especialista en CEO y posicionamiento web.Ha escrito los libros sobre La Biblia "El observador del Génesis" y "Un único Dios" en 2012. Y "Cordero de Dios" en 2020, con más de 500.000 libros vendidos en todo el mundo, además de otros libros sobre política internacional.

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ONE SINGLE GOD

Alberto Canen

The why behind the creation of the jewish people

The transcendental task of the Chosen People. The policies of the Catholic Church. The end of polytheism.

The Chosen People – Chosen for what? Adam and Eve – The first of humankind, or simply the first of the Hebrew people?

The Jews – Were they the Army of God?

If there is only one single God, then what happened to the other gods of antiquity?

Jesus: Is He God or a prophet?  Why a Messiah?

Has the Messiah already come?

From what does Jesus free humanity?

The Bible – What are you talking about?

Alberto Canen has found answers to these questions and to other questions that have disturbed us many times and that we have not been able to resolve. By going through the texts of the Bible with the author, the reader will see that a plot is revealed in its pages before his very eyes. You will feel the same attraction and curiosity that a detective experiences when unraveling a mystery, or an archaeologist when facing a new discovery. Upon discovering the guiding thread of this sacred chronicle, loose ends are tied up, stories are joined together, and pieces are examined in order to understand one of the best known and – perhaps – least understood stories of Humanity.

In this text, biblical quotes are merged with interpretations that arise spontaneously and captivatingly, which is why it is so absorbing to read.

Alberto Canen invites us to make this discovery. Through a conversation with his youngest son – in a direct, simple and didactic style – he shares his methodological reflections and original conclusions with the reader as an accomplice.

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Un único Dios

Alberto Canen

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Table of Contents

Prologue

1 THE BIBLE

2 GOD, CREATOR OF UNIVERSES

2 – a - Genesis:

3 THE FIRST OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

3 - a - Adam and Eve

4 THE FIRST GREAT SELECTION

5 FIRST APPROACH TO EGYPT

5 – a - The Story of Abraham

6 ABRAHAM AND HIS NEPHEW LOT, SODOM AND GOMORRA

6 – a - The Son of Abraham

6 – b - Abraham in Gerar

7 THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM

7 – a - Isaac, Son of Abraham

7 – b - Jacob's Dream

8 THE STORY OF JOSEPH, EGYPT, AND THE LEAN COWS 

9 THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT

9 – a - The Liberation from Egypt

10 THE EXODUS, A WALK IN THE DESERT 83

10 – a - The march through the desert

10 – b - The battle against Amalek

11 THE COMMANDMENTS. We were so well off in Egypt ...

11 – a - The Covenant

11 – b - God gives laws to the people of Israel, through Moses

11 – c - The Tablets of the Law

11 – d - Some laws

11 – e - The law of the talion - An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

11 – f - The march through the desert

12 NOT ONE WILL BE LEFT IN THIS DESERT: THEY HAVE TO DIE IN IT

12 – a - The exploration of Canaan

13 THE PROMISED LAND

13 – a - And they came to the Jordan

13 – b - God prohibits the entry of Moses into the Promised Land

14 YAHWEH HAS TOLD ME: You will not cross this Jordan 

14 – a - Moses proclaims the law

14 – b - The law of the talion

14 – c - The death of Moses

15 THE CONQUEST OF THE PROMISED LAND BEGINS

15 – a - Scorched earth campaigns

15 – b - The walls of Jericho fall 

15 – c - The conquest of Ay

15 – d - How a people can be excluded from the purity of the Chosen People  158

15 – e - Joshua's last speech

15 – f - Joshua dies

15 – g - Samson 

16 RUTH, BALSAM, OASIS IN THE DESERT

16 – a - Samuel

17 THE MONARCHY

17 – a - They have rejected me

17 – b - The people of Israel ask for a King

17 – c - Samuel speaks to the people

17 – d - King David

17 – e - And now ... Goliath

17 – f - The death of David and the consecration of Solomon

17 – g - Jeroboam and the death of Solomon

18 ELIJAH AND ELISHA. PERHAPS ANGELS? ...

18 – a - God sends the prophet Elijah

18 – b - More works in Elisha

19 THE DEPORTATION: Strangers in a strange land

20 RETURN HOME AFTER A JOB WELL DONE

21 THE CHAIN OF BLOOD IS PLACED AT RISK. They said farewell to their wives and their children.

22 AND THEY WENT INTO HIDING

22 – a - Jonathan's relations with Rome and Sparta

23 JERUSALEM, NEITHER YOURS NOR MINE ...

24 AND THE MESSIAH CAME

24 – a - The conception and birth of Jesus

24 – b - Some stories from the life of Jesus

25 THE RULES OF THE GAME

25 – a - And the law?

25 – b - Jesus sends the apostles in search of the Jews

25 – c - Jesus compares the people to children

26 IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER'S SON?

26 – a - Nobody is a prophet in his own land ...

26 – b - Traditions are challenged

26 – c - Jesus announces that he will die at the hands of the scribes and priests

26 – d - Good, evil and wealth

27 MAY NO ONE EVER EAT FRUIT FROM YOU AGAIN!

27 – a - Jesus expels the merchants from the Temple

27 – b - Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's

27 – c - The greatest commandment

28 ARE YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?

29 TRULY, THIS MAN WAS THE SON OF GOD

29 – a - Jesus rises

Prologue

Catholicism, Islam and Judaism generally generate doubts and concerns about their contradictions and inconsistencies – at least, that's what I thought, until now. I recently had to review these religions and their basic holy book, the Bible, through the eyes of a child, my son Lautaro, and this new reading led me to a huge discovery. A universe has been revealed to me that had been hidden from my understanding, and I would now like to share it with you. I focus on Catholicism, Islam and Judaism, because I understand that they all have a common origin in the Old Testament and in the people of Israel. We will walk through the main facts and see, or at least try to see, what the reason for being of the Jewish people was, what the reason for their creation was, as well as their transcendental role in the history of mankind. And the Why for the attitudes of Judaism, Islam and Catholicism, both as churches and as policies. Actions and policies that have greatly disgusted me, until now.

The direct and plain style of this story arises from the reading of the Bible[1]  that I did with Lautaro and which developed from his questions, his questions as a child, his innocent concerns, but which shook my set beliefs that I had never questioned. All those issues that I had relegated to the mental box of not worth investigating.

The narrative tries to be linear in time – I say, tries to, because there are events that are simultaneous, and it is also possible that the books that make up the Bible were not written linearly over time.

I have not analyzed all the books because, depending on the topic addressed, I would have had to repeat the same things, and it was not my intention to produce a Bible with commentary, but only to show the reason for being of the Jewish people, their transcendental work, and how this affected the policies of the Catholic Church and, possibly, Islam as well, is for me.

The general idea is to discover this mystery of what God's plan is, as if we were detectives assembling a mosaic, a puzzle, in which all the pieces will fit perfectly in the end, allowing the reason for being of the Jewish people, the reason for which God created them, and its continuity – as it were – in the Catholic Church, to be revealed.

So, then, let's go to that box of unresolved cases to see what we can find.

1- The quotations from the Bible throughout this book are from the Illustrated Jerusalem Bible, Édtions du Cerf, Paris, 1973, under the direction of the Jerusalem Bible School. [Bible texts in the English translation are taken from the English-language New Jerusalem Bible at https://www.catholic.org/bible/].

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León Felipe

1884 – 1968

No one came here yesterday,

nor will anyone go today,

nor go towards God tomorrow

along the same path

that I am travelling on.

For every man, God saves

a new ray of light – the Sun ...

and a spotless road.

Chapter 1

1 THE BIBLE

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Who hasn't heard about the Bible?

Many have read it, and some more than just once.

Personally, I have done so on several occasions, although each time I only found the text to be something similar to a history book, and for me it was just the history of the Jewish people.

I have always marveled at the actions of God and of this people, and it has seemed to me to be a story of extreme cruelty and pointless violence on more than one occasion. I have also been excited and moved, with a tightness in my throat that left me on the verge of tears.

I am deeply moved by the suffering, the comings and goings, the slow development and retreat of humanity reflected in the history of that people. Repeating over and over ... and God is always there: understanding, forgiving, and giving yet another chance. And, on some occasions, such as with Sodom and Gomorrah or the Flood, it leaves a blot and again tells the sadness of making certain that there is just no other solution. Also, He shows, as I see it now, an example of infinite humility by saying with those actions: although I created them, they went wrong and I must destroy them for the good of humanity.

Even so, and despite my repeated readings, I have failed to understand many of God's attitudes and reactions, until now ...

I think that it's necessary to clarify at this point that I am a Roman Catholic: for elementary school, I went to a religious school for several years at Roque González, in the city of Posadas, in the province of Misiones, Argentina, where I was born. I have always been a believer; I have felt the constant presence of God in my life since childhood and have always wanted to know more, to know why and, like many others, to know where we come from and where we are going.

I never stopped looking for an explanation for the eternal questions of humanity. I have investigated other religions and have found some answers in them and in their sacred texts, and I have also discovered more similarities than differences among the various creeds, but the Bible was still a mystery to me, a mystery that even tormented me at times. It bothered me that I couldn't understand all those stories – What did they mean?

I have two children: the oldest is twenty-four and the youngest is nine. Among the topics we frequently talk at home are religions, God and spirituality, and they participate by asking questions and giving their opinions.

This last time, Lautaro, the youngest, asked me to tell him about God, but with more determination than he had the other times, with an intense desire to know the details ... because it was not a new topic for him, since we had already talked many times before, but this time was different. I tried to be even-handed and explained the different worldviews of the main religions and how they view God; I talked to him with as much information as I had managed to gather and tried to make him better understand advanced or complicated concepts. At this point, it seemed to me that it was best to refer directly to the sources, so we therefore began by reading the Bible, with the intention of continuing with the sacred books of other religions.

First, he wanted to know about Jesus, so we read the New Testament. Since the language is a bit strong and complicated for a child of his age, my wife Laura bought him a Children's Bible with illustrations and, of course, presented in very summarized form.

We read it for a while every night, and we had finished it in a few days, but we were left with many loose ends, because it was a very small version and he wanted to know more. Lautaro had already seen the Big Book – we have a two-thousand page Bible, the Jerusalem Bible – and that was what he wanted me to read him.

All right, then, we went to that ...

But reading it was completely different for me this time.

This time, the story showed me a plot that had been completely hidden from my understanding.

The same thing happened to me as when a person has kept a stone on his desk for years, using it as a paperweight, but suddenly realizes one day that the stone is a fossil, the bone of an animal, a vertebra. Then he goes to the place where he found it and starts looking around, so he discovers the other parts of the skeleton, the legs, the ribs ... the more he looks, the more bones of that skeleton appear, and the more precise the figure emerges, something similar to those drawings for children that are only numbered dots on a paper and that have to be joined together in order to reveal the hidden drawing.

This time, a figure appeared before me, a plot, a thread, and I began to connect the dots. The more points I found, the sharper this figure appeared – this image, this plot, this rope – and, when I pulled on the rope, I could see that, upon going backwards, I reached Adam and Eve and, moving forward until today, I could then see it all clearly, moving forward into the future.

This generated a real shock in me, a wonderful astonishment.

What I saw was the creation, carried out by God, of a Chosen People, specially designed to end polytheism, a people that would have the enormous task of eradicating pagan cults and establishing monotheism throughout the world. A people that was going to prepare the ground, that would cleanse it and order it for the arrival of someone even more important, someone who was going to change the history of mankind forever.

Once we discover the hidden figure, the image, the basic plot, then we understand its simplicity – its simplicity and its perfection. A simplicity and perfection that can only come from God.

So, then, let's pull on the rope, on this rope, and look for a pencil, because there are so many dots to connect ...

Chapter 2

GOD, CREATOR OF UNIVERSES

Genesis:

«In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.

«God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. Evening came and morning came: the first day.

«God said, 'Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.' And so it was. God made the vault, and it divided the waters under the vault from the waters above the vault. God called the vault 'heaven'. Evening came and morning came: the second day.

«God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together into a single mass, and let dry land appear.' And so it was. God called the dry land 'earth' and the mass of waters 'seas', and God saw that it was good. God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth, bearing fruit with their seed inside, each corresponding to its own species.' And so it was. The earth produced vegetation: the various kinds of seed-bearing plants and the fruit trees with seed inside, each corresponding to its own species. God saw that it was good. Evening came and morning came: the third day.

«God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of heaven to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years. Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was. God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day, the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars. God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth, to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness. God saw that it was good. Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.

«God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above the earth across the vault of heaven.' And so it was. God created great sea-monsters and all the creatures that glide and teem in the waters in their own species, and winged birds in their own species. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds multiply on land.' Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.

«God said, 'Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.' And so it was. God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species. God saw that it was good. God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.'

(...)

God also said, 'Look, to you I give all the seed-bearing plants everywhere on the surface of the earth, and all the trees with seed-bearing fruit; this will be your food. And to all the wild animals, all the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that creep along the ground, I give all the foliage of the plants as their food.' And so it was. God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day. » (Genesis 1:1-31)

«Thus heaven and earth were completed with all their array. On the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on that day he rested after all his work of creating.

Such was the story of heaven and earth as they were created. At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven. » (Genesis 2:1-4).

Upon reading Genesis to Lautaro, the seven days in which God created heaven and earth and Adam and Eve came up. And he said: Seven days?

And, yes ... who hasn't asked the very same thing?

Very well ... I explained to him that, although it talks about days, these days are days of God and, since God is infinite, His days must be extremely long, probably millions of human years. Today science calculates about 4,600 million years for the formation of the solar system and a million years for the evolution of the human species, so the seven days of God could well be about 4,600 million years.

The important thing here is to recover the idea that God created heaven and earth, and not the time it took. Let us think that, although 4.6 billion years have passed and if He created at least one solar system per week, even if it is the week of God, then I consider it to be a truly impressive feat. It is very difficult for the finite mind of a human being to understand the infinite, even – I would dare to say – impossible to conceive of the infinite and immeasurable, that is to say ... un-measurable.

Well, then, let us now analyze the creation: Genesis says, Let the heavens and the earth and all their array be concluded (Genesis 2:1); if we consider that heaven is all that is above the earth and that the earth is all that is under heaven, then it is clear that God is the creator of absolutely everything – absolutely everything. The earth is the whole planet and the sky is the infinity that surrounds it and encompasses the entire universe – and perhaps, other universes –, not only our solar system, and that all species go with the earth of animals and plants.

It is understandable that, from the point of view of a human narrator standing on the earth, expressing himself in this way, God has created everything above and everything below. But it doesn't end there because, since nothing is left out, it is clear that He is also the creator of the world of ideas, dreams and thoughts.

The Bhagavad Gita, the sacred book of the Hindus, says that, God is the one who sees, what is seen, and the idea. This concept is similar to the previous one. Everything is God.

This idea strikes me as wonderful, since I cannot think that there can be something that is not part of God.

«Then Yahweh God formed man with dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. » (Genesis 2:7-8).

As creations of God, humans have been made of parts, particles, fragments, of God Himself. If we follow the logic we propose, if God creates everything, and before His creation there was nothing, then everything created must be part of Him, so that we are, therefore, part of God, being made of mud, that mud that was created by Him, and of every chemical compound of that mud that has been generated, first in the Big Bang [2]and then inside the furnaces of the stars, stars that were created by God. Perhaps the Big Bang is simply God's way of creating universes[3].

2 - Name given to the scientific model that tries to explain the origin of the Universe and its subsequent development from a space-time singularity.

3 -The stars are immense conversion factories that shine because of the nuclear fusion reactions inside them that convert hydrogen, the lightest element, into helium. In fact, the universe is mostly composed of these two elements: hydrogen and helium. These were also the first elements that formed after the Big Bang and the others were created later, by means of three processes in the evolution of stars: nuclear synthesis in stars and in supernovae, and by the interaction of cosmic rays that formed lithium, beryllium and boron. All the natural elements known today, even those we have in our body, arose from these processes. The mass of the stars determines their final stages of evolution and, in fact, the chemical elements they can generate.

Every chemical compound, each element of the periodic table, has its origin in the original matter of the universe that has then been combined and recombined over and over again in stellar furnaces and have then been cast back into space with the explosions of the supernovae in a machine of miraculous complexity and extreme simplicity, over and over again, generating more and more complex elements. These elements form the planets, the stars, our Sun, the Moon, the Earth, Mars, etc. The land we walk on, the water with which the mud is made. The mud. Thus, we are mud, dust of the soil. So, mud we are, dust of the soil.

***

–  Did God create everything because He didn't work magic? – Lautaro asks.

–  Yes ... the fact that it is God's creation – I explain – doesn't mean that it should be magical. Newton's laws are God's creation, and they are not magical, they are simply God's mechanism of doing some things, such as the laws of physics, those of genetics or mathematics ...

God creates the laws of physics and then Newton, for example, discovers some of them and they therefore bear his name.

Man discovers creation, discovers the laws that govern it, laws created by God for the functioning of his creation.

It's as if a man from a tribe had found a word processor, a computer, and over time he discovered how it works and why it works.

At first, he may believe that it is only magic, but as he moves forward, he realizes that it is only an artifact created by someone.

Obviously, but having been created by someone does not make it less wonderful.

This universe created by God has its mechanisms, its gears, the mechanisms and gears created by God, a mechanism that makes it work and that governs its operation. Laws that make what happens predictable and with clear rules of the game. Laws that allow life and evolution[4].

***

4 - In my book The Observer, Nueva Editorial Creativa, May 2012, I explain Genesis in detail and how it coincides perfectly with the current scientific explanation.

Chapter 3

THE FIRST OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

Adam and Eve

Let's read the creation of Eden:

«"(...) There was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil. Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered all the surface of the soil. Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being.

Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned.

From the soil, Yahweh God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the Tree of Life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided to make four streams. The first is named the Pishon, and this winds all through the land of Havilah where there is gold.

The gold of this country is pure; bdellium and cornelian stone are found there.

The second river is named the Gihon, and this winds all through the land of Cush. The third river is named the Tigris, and this flows to the east of Ashur. The fourth river is the Euphrates. Yahweh God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it. Then Yahweh God gave the man this command, 'You are free to eat of all the trees in the garden. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat; for, the day you eat of that, you are doomed to die.' Yahweh God said, 'It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper.' So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it.

The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild animals. But no helper suitable for the man was found for him. Then, Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And, while he was asleep, he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh up again forthwith.

Yahweh God fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. And the man said: This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh! She is to be called Woman, because she was taken from Man. This is why a man leaves his father and mother and becomes attached to his wife, and they become one flesh. Now, both of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they felt no shame before each other".» (Genesis 2:5-25).

It is clear to me that this second creation account is only from Eden – the general creation, so to speak – that was already working in parallel and in advance. The man that God gives life to at this time is Adam, not the human species, as humans were already walking the planet long ago.

Also, by creating the woman on his side, he does not create all women, but only Eve, Adam's companion in Eden.

Let's move on.

Adam and Eve are created and God gives them Eden to live in. There, He also puts the tree from which they should not eat, and He explicitly warns them (Genesis 2:16-17):

«"Then Yahweh God gave the man this command, 'You are free to eat of all the trees in the garden.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat; for, the day you eat of that, you are doomed to die." » (Genesis 2:16-17).

We already know the story, the snake convinces Eve, who eats the fruit and offers it to Adam, who then also eats. Very badly done, very badly done indeed, but very necessary for the story, and we will see why. Is it that God knew they were going to eat, and left them there, without oversight, just so they would eat? Yes, I think so. Everything has its reason and, in the Bible, everything also has its reason. Now I can see it, and I want to share it with you.

What happened upon eating this fruit?

By eating it, they became aware, and they realized that they could see beyond: they understood that they were the only ones that had that possibility. No other being that populated the planet could do it, so they, and their offspring, were the only ones who had minds ready to see and understand. This is very important, so important that it is going to make a huge difference. We will return to this paragraph further below.

For having eaten the forbidden fruit, God casts Adam and Eve out of Eden and, from that time, they must take charge of their lives, they must work and earn their own livelihood.

–  Just a minute. Just a minute! If God wanted them to eat it, then why does He punish them? – Lautaro asks.

–  Everything in good time, we will see why – I answer him.

Let's continue with the reading. Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain, in an outbreak of rage, kills Abel and is left alone, alone with Adam and Eve, his parents.

At this point, it is important to think again about what we've read.

Let's see ... Adam and Eve seem to be the only two people in the world – if we stick to the more traditional idea that they are the first of humanity –, and now they have a son since the other had died, but the Bible says:

«"Cain left Yahweh's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. He became the founder of a city and gave the city the name of his son, Enoch. » (Genesis 4:16-17)

How did Cain meet his wife? And what country was that in? Was there anyone else besides Adam and Eve and their son? This, then, is the key to understanding the Bible, to understanding the reason for being of the Jewish people and their Covenant with God, the reason for being of the Chosen People, their destiny.

Pieces of a puzzle, a wonderfully perfect puzzle, like all creation, and with the perfect signature of God.

Let's make a mental note of this situation, because it is essential to be able to move forward: Adam and Eve, clearly, are not the first humans, but only the first of God's Chosen People. Humanity already existed when Adam and Eve were sent, by God, to live with the others, and these others were other human beings.

This could confirm, in some way, the suspicions we had about creation stories, in which it was noted that humanity had been created before Adam and Eve.

Let's analyze what is narrated here:

God creates the Earth and places the animals and plants on it. It is possible that, among those animals, there was also the human species which, having evolved over time to that level, had already populated the planet. God had created animals and plants, and humans were part of those animals, special animals, but still just animals.

When God closes Eden to Adam and Eve, who are the first beings of the (present) Jewish people – not the first on Earth, but the first of the Chosen People –, they are forced to walk alongside the other inhabitants of the world. Although the Bible does not say it directly,