Comments on: The Significance of Tubal-Cain http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-2215 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:08:03 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-2215 I believe so. Jesus’ reference to intermarriage links it with the crucial phrase “the sons of God.” It is all about the priestly mediators getting wiped out. Just as the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven brought the deluge, in the Tabernacle paradigm, it is the nations/waters of the Gentile “outer courts” flooding up over the Bronze Altar (which symbolises the Land) and the waters of the Bronze Laver “above” it pouring down and washing it clean.

See also: http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/12/11/envy-and-the-sons-of-god/

]]> By: Travis Finley http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-2212 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:54:10 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-2212 Does the flood imagery of Matthew 25 come into play in this at all? It seems it would. The Coming of the SoM like a flood would be as an avenger of the blood of the martyrs, no?

]]> By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:33:48 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-1757 Fair point. Although I think there is a greater significance in Noah’s office than we usually hear about. Adam had failed to be a judge. And we don’t know if the vengeance Cain feared was legal. After all, God took steps to protect him from what he deserved, just as He had with Adam and Eve.

If Abel’s death was the first murder, it is unlikely there was a need for the death penalty anyhow. I think it was a very different world.

]]> By: Drew http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:26:08 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-1755 The fact that Cain feared vengeance probably suggests that the death penalty already existed prior to the flood. The idea that God would wait 1000-2000 years to implement such an important tool of justice almost resembles dispensationalism. Rather, I think God just explicitly commanded it in Genesis 9:6, to contrast with his advice that we eat animals. The OT doesn’t record everything in history, and it actually leaves a lot of extraneous info out. We kinda have to glean it through our own common sense.

]]> By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:15:56 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-1726 Hiram

Thanks!

Only from me at the moment I’m afraid. And the postage is a bit of a deterrent:

http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/10/07/fresh-from-the-oven/

]]> By: hiram http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:12:09 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-1724 Btw, how can I get a copy of Totus Christus?

]]> By: hiram http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/01/the-significance-of-tubal-cain/comment-page-1/#comment-1723 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:11:21 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3501#comment-1723 This made my day :)

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