Our Scripture Of The Week Is:

Psalm 53:3 KJVS
[3] Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

In the prior verse, God was poetically said to be searching "to see if" anyone was fully willing to follow Him. Here, we're given an answer that precisely evaluates the human race. It says every human being has fallen away and become corrupt.

No one does what is good in God's sight. This is a cornerstone concept in Christianity: that no person, anywhere, can claim to be "good enough" to meet God's standards.

Adam and Eve were the first human beings. When they sinned, they passed sin onto the human race. Soon their son Cain displayed a wicked spirit by killing his brother Abel (Genesis 4).

Several generations later sin had snowballed to point that the human race was completely corrupt. In the days before the flood, "The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5).

This trend is not something of the past; it's a constant presence in human hearts.
The prophet Isaiah wrote that all of us have gone astray, and like sheep we have gone our own way (Isaiah 53:6).

Our way is the opposite of God's way. He is completely holy; we are completely unholy.

The declaration here is echoed in Romans 3:11. People seek some form of the divine, but no one is naturally interested in the truths about sin. A common quip says that sinners do not seek God for the same reason criminals do not seek a police officer.

Our topic today is:

The Birth Of Seth – The Lineage Of Christ Discussion

Apparently this was the beginning of men calling upon the name of the Lord. After detailing Cain's descendants through Lamech and his offspring in the previous verses, the narrative now jumps back in time to the birth of Seth. It is very likely Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters besides Cain, Abel, and Seth.

Cain's concern over vengeance strongly suggests that there were many other people alive when he murdered his brother (Genesis 4:14). Those three were special, though, in that the Bible chooses to focus on their stories and successors.

This focus only on more notable figures is a common feature of ancient writings.
It's helpful to notice that Eve is still a woman of faith, expressing her trust in God as the provider of sons even after Cain killed Abel. She saw Seth as God's direct replacement for her lost Abel.

We're told in the next chapter that Adam was 130 years old at the birth of Seth. Eve would have been about the same age. Scripture reports that these first generations after the garden lived hundreds of years, with a reproductive window far beyond what would be considered normal today.

The next chapter will detail the descendants of Seth all of the way through to Noah. Judging by Lamech's story, Cain's legacy seems to be one of productive work and innovation, but also of arrogance and violence. Seth's line, though, includes several examples of people who were overtly faithful to God.

We will learn that Seth was 105 years old when his son Enosh was born.
These first generations after the garden had extraordinarily long lifespans (and reproductive years) by our standards.

We're told that starting around the time of Enosh's birth, people began to call on or proclaim the name of the Lord. This may well have been a direct response, and certainly a contrast, to the descendants of Cain.

As shown in prior verses, his offspring were deeply sinful. And, that sin would eventually spread to pollute almost the entire human race (Genesis 6:5).

Following Eve's example, the people of Seth apparently expressed their dependence on God and perhaps worshiped Him publicly.