Genesis 5:28-29

Let me quote from The New American Bible: When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son and named him Noah, saying, 'Out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse, this one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands." My response: The editors of that Bible include this footnote on these passages: "5,29: There is a similarity between the Hebrew word noah, 'Noah', and the verbal phrase . . . 'he will bring us relief'; this latter refers both to the curse put on soil because of the fall of man (Gn 3,17ff) and to Noah's success in agriculture, especially in raising grapes for wine (Gn 9, 20f)." Noah, Lamech foretells, will bring relief to humanity in two ways, in helping them survive the imminent flood, and in making the earth productive beyond the limits of the divine curse laid on the earth so it resists easy cooperation with fallen humans. Yahweh apparently cursed the earth so that is was adversarial to human efforts to farm and make a living off of it. There seems to be a primordial antagonism fabricated or recognized or enhanced by Yahweh here, the tension between nature and humans. And was this deep conflict a curse for human sin, or was it too a blessing in disguise in that humans, as part angelic or part creator or part divine, as well as mostly beast and animal-like, part of nature and created, must self-realize into angelic creatures that needed to overcome their suffering and challenges in this world, to become living angels that transform the cursed nature into their personal heaven on earth? Yes, I think. Perhaps individuators as living angels and creators here on earth are godly enough to transcend the old curse, the conflict between nature and humans, to make Gardens of Eden all over the earth, like Noah did in his life time to make his fields blessed and not cursed. Let me quote these verses from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he named him Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil in our hands, because of the ground that the Lord has cursed." My response: Note that in this translation, Noah brings comfort to suffering humans or relief. Indeed, by building the ark, he is a savior, a more modest version of Jesus Christ, the Savior of humanity.