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As a great American pop band once sang, \u201cWhere is the love?\u201d Ask your average biblical semi-literate to name the children of Adam and Eve, and you\u2019ll reliably get, \u201cCain and Abel.\u201d Then ask who the next child was, and you\u2019ll get \u2026 crickets. Why should this be, given that, by the end of Genesis 4, God has already given Adam and Eve a son \u201cin place of Abel,\u201d a son named Seth?<\/span><\/p>\n

In Genesis 5, we get the full import of Seth, quiet Seth, modest Seth, who feuds with nobody and manages, in his 912 years, to beget Enosh, who begets Kenan, and so forth, until after a lot of begets we meet a sixth-great-grandson by the name of Noah. That\u2019s Noah, <\/span>the forefather of every last one of us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Given that Cain and Abel make a mess of the sibling relationship, and that all of Adam and Eve\u2019s other sons and daughters go unnamed, Seth is the one to whom we owe everything, not just our biological lineage, but our example of how to live a long, happy, blameless life. And for that, what has he gotten? He is ignored and unheralded, his name obscure. Go ahead\u2014try to name a famous Seth. If, as Martin Amis wrote, tennis star Tim Henman was \u201cthe first human being called Tim to achieve anything at all,\u201d who is the second Seth to achieve anything? In 2017, Seth was the 322<\/span>nd<\/span> most popular name for newborn boys in the United States. Let\u2019s hope those few Seths are funny, because today Seth makes it big only by getting laughed at: Rogen, Macfarlane, Green, Meyers.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there was nothing funny about the original Seth, the Seth of Genesis 5. He not only gave humanity back its dignity\u2014he gave us our future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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