This is a conjecture:
Stage 1: God let's man run rampant without any direction except the instructions for sacrifice implied by Cain and Abels behavior. Man doesn't listen, so God destroys them all with the flood. 10 generations. Given the time, if each couple had a kid on average every 25 years (reasonable? most didn't have kids at all until average 100) that would put the populations at around 3 billion.
Stage 2: God selects a chosen people, gives them the law, disciplines them, etc. Abraham. Israelites, you know the story.
Stage 3: God does the work for us, by saving us through his son, and requests only our belief.
Avoid error: this does NOT mean that God tried increasing involved stages to save his people when the first ones didn't work. Both stage 1 and stage 2 involved sacrifices that pointed towards the final, irrevocable sacrifice of JC on the cross.
So why is there a progression? I don't know. It's just something I noticed.
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