Full Bible Timeline
114 INCHES OF
BIBLICAL HISTORY
THE BIBLE TEACHERS CHOICE
Life in the Garden of Eden
A small view of the first Adam will lead to a small view of the redemptive work by the second Adam.
God created Adam and Eve with the specific purpose of bringing them together to have children. In this sense, God united them like a minister today unites a man and woman in marriage.
THE BIBLICAL RECORD:
As a student in bible school, I recall reviewing the Genesis 5 genealogy with my professor. His response to this was shocking to me, and despite my great respect for him, I could not agree with his position that perhaps over 30,000 years had passed between Adam and Noah, and that only the 'important' characters were listed.
You can call me a fundamentalist if you wish to, but I cannot believe that the biblical record that I view today is anything but the Word of God for me today. I believe God has detailed the generations for us – for a reason.
Otherwise, we will have to question all the verses and not just the chapters dealing with the lineage of Jesus Christ. After all, He is the central figure in the entire biblical narrative, and the genealogies are a record of His parentage.
Shall we not take them as they are?
So below here --- is a listing of just the children of Adam to Noah.
The Full Bible Timeline full-color chart is packed with rich insights and powerful connections between ancient history and the biblical narrative.
Genesis 5:3 - Seth
Year 130 after the fall
Adam becomes the father to Seth after Cain has killed Abel. The righteous line had to continue if we were to see Christ.
Adam is 130 years old when Seth is born.
Genesis 5:6 - Enosh
Year 235 after the fall
Seth becomes the father of Enosh, whose name literally means Mortal or Doomed to Die. Seth is 105 when Enosh is born.
130 + 105 = 235
Genesis 5:9 - Cainan
Year 325 after the fall
Enosh is 90 when he fathers Cainan. The promise of the redemption is awaited for by Adam and his children.
235 + 90 = 325
Genesis 5:12 - Mahalaleel
Year 395 after the fall
Cainan is 70 when he becomes the father of Mahalaleel. The only children referenced are those in the line of Christ.
325 + 70 = 395
Genesis 5:18 - Jared
Year 460 after the fall
Jared is born to Mahalaleel 460 years after Adam transgressed and death entered into the world.
395 + 65 = 460
Genesis 5:21 - Enoch
Year 622 after the fall
Jared is 162 when he has Enoch, and Adam is still alive, teaching young Enoch what it means to 'Walk with God'.
460 + 162 = 622
Genesis 5:25 - Methuselah
Year 687 after the fall
Methuselah is born when his father is only 65 years old. Methuselah means 'When he dies, Judgment'. Methuselah lives longer than any man, 969 years, and dies exactly on the year of the flood.
622 + 65 = 687
Genesis 5:28 - Lamech
Year 874 after the fall
Methuselah becomes the father of Lamech at the age of 187. When Lamech is 56 Adam dies. Both Methuselah and Lamech are alive for almost all of the ark's construction.
687 + 187 = 874
Genesis 5:32 - Noah
Year 1056 after the fall
Lamech has Noah at 182. Noah is born in the year 1056. During his lifetime all the fathers, from Seth to Methuselah, die. Noah buries them all and carries all the prophetic promises with him into the ark.
874 + 182 = 1056
LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
ADAM & EVE: FOUNDATIONS OF THE 'GREAT COUNT' AM CHRONOLOGY
Book II — The Garden
Before the Fall, Time Was Not Counted
What if the most common questions people ask about Genesis can’t be answered—not because the Bible is unclear, but because we keep asking them from the wrong starting line?
Most biblical timelines begin at creation, as though Genesis opens with a clock already ticking. But Scripture does something unexpected: it waits. It does not begin recording ages, lifespans, and generational succession until after death enters human experience. In other words, the Bible presents chronology not as an abstract measurement laid over creation—but as something that becomes consciously counted only when life becomes subject to decay and loss.
Book II — The Garden is written to recover that logic.
It invites the reader into Eden not as a sentimental backdrop, but as the threshold between two worlds:
the world of life unbroken and the world of life measured.
The Questions Everyone Asks
People flood search engines with questions like these:
When does biblical time actually begin?
How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden?
Why does Genesis suddenly start listing ages in chapter 5?
Is Eden history or symbolism?
Why doesn’t the Bible give dates for creation?
Do the genealogies matter—or are they filler?
And yet, most answers online either speculate, flatten the text, or force a modern mindset onto an ancient record.
This book does something different.
It argues that many of these questions can only be answered once a deeper foundation is restored:
Time begins when death enters the world.
Not because God wasn’t active before that moment—He was.
Not because Eden lacked sequence—it had sequence.But because chronology, as Scripture uses it, becomes meaningful only once humanity becomes mortal.
What This Book Answers — Clearly
1) “When does biblical time actually begin?”
This book argues that the first true measurable year of human history begins when death enters the human story—because that is when Scripture begins recording ages and succession as historical memory.
2) “How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden?”
Instead of guessing, the book shows why the question itself is often built on an assumption Scripture never confirms: Eden is described with sequence, but not measurable chronology.
3) “Why do the ages start in Genesis 5?”
Because Genesis is showing the reader something: once death enters, human life becomes countable—meaning years, generations, and inheritance must be preserved and measured.
4) “Is Eden symbolic or literal?”
This book refuses the shallow either/or. Eden is treated as real—but also as a realm that belongs to a pre-chronological state of life, before mortality creates the conditions that make “history” function as history.
5) “Why don’t we get dates for creation?”
Because Scripture’s method of timekeeping is not built on cosmic timestamps, but on the human experience of mortality, memory, and succession after the Fall.
6) “Why do genealogies matter?”
Because genealogies are not filler: they are the mechanism by which covenant memory is carried forward in a dying world. They are how Scripture preserves continuity when everything else breaks.
What You’ll Feel as You Read
This is not a book of sensational claims.
It is a book of restored clarity.
Readers often come to Genesis with a quiet frustration: “I know this matters, but I’m not sure how it holds together.” The Garden meets that frustration with a framework that makes the early chapters of Scripture feel coherent again—without forcing answers the text refuses to give.
This book is for readers who want Genesis to be treated with seriousness:
as theology rooted in real memory, not merely ideas floating in abstraction.
An Invitation
If you’ve ever wondered why Eden feels different from everything that follows…
if you’ve sensed that the Bible’s silence about “dates” might be intentional…
if you’ve asked why the genealogies appear only after the Fall…
Then The Garden is written for you.
Because the question isn’t only what happened in Eden—
it’s what happened to time when Eden was closed.