About 4000 B.C. The life of Adam and Eve outside Paradise

After Adam and Eve had demonstrated that they were not willing to support God in realizing the ends for which He had made the earth, God drove them out of His paradise. They had to live in a world which was a lot less beautiful and less pleasant than what they had known in the first part of their lives.

They got children outside paradise. Three of them are mentioned by name: their eldest son is called Cain, their second son is Abel, and their youngest is Seth.

The Bible makes it very clear as to what degree this first human family had been affected by moral decay and human decadence as a result of Adam’s and Eve’s rebellion. The relationship between the two eldest sons was so problematic that the one killed the other. Cain, the first man on our earth who was born in the way known to all humans, killed his younger brother, Abel. God punished him by sending him into exile, far away from his family.

(It is very worthwhile to read the story about Cain and Abel in the Bible itself. It is to be found in Genesis 4:1 - 16.)