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After humans were expelled from the garden of Eden, the people that God created spread across the globe. We see people who continue to reject God or not seek him and end up believing in other gods, and so we see many of the world religions develop over time. I am including only a selection of the major world faiths to highlight this idea, but the sequence helps to show the progression from the beginning, when human beings believed in the one God who created them. The map in image 14.3 shows the rough area where the story of Adam and Eve was said to take place.
How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture
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