The Bible does not describe early humans as primitive cave dwellers who gradually formed civilization; it shows humanity beginning in perfection and Cain's descendants building a city.
Les Feldick openly rejects the evolutionary story that humans lived in caves and were like wild animals before slowly forming a civilization. He points to Scripture where the first thing Cain's offspring did was settle down and build a city. The biblical record presents early human history as capable and civilized, then declining into violence and corruption until the flood.
Genesis 4:17 — Cain's son Enoch built a city, showing early humans were not cave dwellers but organized community builders.
Genesis 6:11-13 — Describes humanity as corrupt and violent before the flood, supporting the teaching that human history declined from an early high point rather than rising from primitiveness.
The Bible does not say that early humans lived in caves and slowly rose to civilization. Instead, it records that Cain, the firstborn son of Adam, built a city: "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch" (Genesis 4:17). This points to planned, settled community life very early in human history. Later, before the flood, Scripture describes humanity's condition as corrupt and violent: "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). God told Noah: "The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth" (Genesis 6:13). The picture is of a sophisticated but morally degenerate world, not a primitive one struggling to become civilized.
Les Feldick rejects the evolutionary explanation that man came up from primitive origins, lived in caves, and only later formed civilization. He calls this evolution narrative "garbage" and says it is not what the Bible teaches. He points to Genesis 4:17, where the first thing the offspring of Cain did was settle down and build a city—not just a cave dweller or two. Les also teaches that humanity began in perfection and then degenerated. By about 1600 years after Adam, around 2400 B.C., the human race had gone down morally and had become so violent that God said He would destroy them. Before the flood, he sees evidence of a civilization with a tremendous standard of living and advanced technology, which had nevertheless become spiritually corrupt and violent. For Les, cave men—if they existed—would belong to man's downward path, not to an upward evolutionary climb from savagery to civilization.
No, according to both Scripture and Les Feldick. Les says the evolution view claims man lived in caves and almost like a wild animal before he gradually formed a civilization. But the Bible says the first thing the offspring of Cain did was settle down and build a city. This shows early human life involved building organized communities, not living as isolated cave dwellers.
Les teaches that by about 1,600 years after Adam, the human race had degenerated morally and become violent. In the pre-flood world there was a civilization with tremendous living standards and technology, but it had become corrupt. God then destroyed that civilization and the planet with the flood, leaving Noah and his family to start over.
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Les Feldick contrasts evolution's claim that early man lived in caves with the Bible's record that Cain's offspring settled down and built a city, showing civilization came early, not late.
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Genesis 4:17: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
This verse is the direct biblical evidence Les uses to show early humans built cities rather than living as cave dwellers.
Genesis 6:11: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Shows the moral state of pre-flood humanity, supporting the idea that human history declined into violence rather than rising from primitive beginnings.
Genesis 6:13: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Les quotes this in explaining why God destroyed the pre-flood civilization and the earth itself.
The Bible does not describe early humans as cave dwellers. It records that Cain's descendants settled down and built a city (Genesis 4:17). Les Feldick teaches that the concept of primitive cave men comes from evolution, not Scripture.
Yes. He describes the pre-flood world as having a tremendous standard of living and technology. He even says he thinks there was a civilization of Atlantis, but that it was removed because of moral corruption and violence.
Les says humanity did not begin in caves and gradually climb upward. He teaches that man began with Adam and Eve in perfection and then declined morally over time, until God destroyed the earth with the flood.
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