nepsfeather,
Sad isn't it! That any people could suffer so.
With regards to any modern day curse, this one doesn't think so. Yet, if you were to read several uncanonized scripts, esp the first and second books of Adam and Eve, there are clues.
Though Cain wasn't cursed directly by God, his lack of discretion in almost everything is somewhat revealing. Unable to see any benefit from repenting and forgiveness, and no matter what crap followed him around,(for god was revealing to him the nature of contriteness) yet, he refused any matter that required him to think before he acted.
Some scripts found with the Dead Sea scrolls seemed to include the book of Enoch and several similar books that came out of Ethiopia, near the Red Sea. Is that to say the word of God had reached the descendants of Cain, at some point in time before the flood?
Let's take a flying leap... for this is as close as i can place these things together. I do so, without any authority and certainly without any prejudices.
Let's suppose Cain's mark was a skin pigment that left him dark or black. Cain's resolve was in never being accountable for his action. So he moved on soon after his return to seeing Adam by settling in a place bountiful with fruit and trees and the like. Was this present day Africa?
Another point! With regards to evolution. Why haven't the souls of man interbred today so that there are really only one race? Three distinctions are fundamental to this. White, black and yellow. Yellow, being the best we can do for Asian. White's have certainly mixed with white's, such that the so called Aryan race is a bold statement. All white's have interbred such that there is simply no sub-race remaining. So has the blacks and no doubt the Asian( yellow). Yet, why not the three together. I believe the purest man/women known (certainly the most beautiful) are when these three races mix. Ie. Brazilians, Afro-Euro/Americans, Afro-Asians, or better Afro-Euro-Asians, and any such mix whereby the parents have similar features initially etc. Wouldn't the totality of God's creations be purest when reunited?
The testimony in the Books of Adam and Eve reveal that Seth the third son born to Eve was most beautiful. Was this because they had reconciled with God? Meanwhile Cain's offspring were as follows...
31 And when they looked at the daughters of Cain, at their beautiful figures, and at their hands and feet dyed with colour, and tattooed in ornaments on their faces, the fire of sin was kindled in them.
Hands and feet dyed with color. Was this what was seen outside their garments? Yet they too were beautiful, only they seemed to be promiscuous. Is this a cause and effect for living the easy life, apart from worshiping God, while living apart from a temperate climate that requires one and all to be diligent to prepare for the cold season. This is not hard to fathom if you look at the settlers founding the new world of North America; compared to the descendants of African slaves that have emerged in the Caribbean after the uprising of colonial rule. I don't doubt for a minute, if this one lived in the tropics esp. in my youth, one would spend more time checking out the ladies and hanging out. Both settlements either in the North or the South seem to decline in time. There are few puritans left in America. Yet, it is in the south that such things take unprecedented measures.
This is a good time to add in closing that with the suffering souls that seem to befall so many blacks, there are seen some of the most God fearing souls that emerge out of this.
Somehow i feel the truth is founded somewhere amidst all of this above.
Thoughts!
