Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
The head of a family or a community will act
as the leader or Patriarch to accomplish a personal or community task Having an understanding of a person’s status
is important to the story and its interpretation.
The Lord
entrusted the garden of Eden to Adam, because God recognized him as the
Patriarch of the Garden and his future family.
Likewise, Adam was held responsible for the sin of eating the forbidden
fruit.
God
commanded Noah to build the ark, because God recognized Noah as the Patriarch
of his family.
God spoke to
Abraham and gave him the promised land, because God recognized him as the
family patriarch, the leader of his family.
As far as
biblical principles are compared this is a small one. But it is something to keep in mind. Family structure was very important back in
those days. Today it is not as
important, but we need to keep it in mind that it was everything back in those
days.
William J. Roop, M.A.B.S.
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