Organized religion was 100% sure man couldnt clone animals,geneticly modify genes and make an atomic bomb. There is so much spiritual disrespect in Christianity. Does God gives us political leaders or do we vote them by choice? Very simple: Gen. 5.4 says that the other sons and daughters of Adam have been born after seth. This seems a strange thing to say given that the Old and New Testaments, as well as ancient Hebrew and Christian commentaries taught that our bodies will rise again from the dust. No, Cain was Adam's oldest son and Abel's brother (Genesis What other people? He would of put it in the Holy Bible. (5) Afterward, Cain had intercourse with his wife in the land of Fugitiveness.Genesis 3:20; 4:3, 12, 14-17. Mary Joan Winn Leith suggests that while the Israelite storyteller knew that other men and women in Genesis existed outside of Eden, they did not matter to him or factor into his account. Chapter VIII. He could have been 100 years old which is the same approximate age the three sons of Noah were when they entered the ark. They establish that earth was covered by water at its creation and that God set a boundary, the land masses, which the water could never again cover over. Then Cain was kicked out of Eden. He still had commanded them to fill the earth and subdue it, no matter how He felt over Abels demise. When Adam and Eve finally come into being, the whole world already is populated with human beings (Gen. 1.28). Aklia, Abels sister, that she may bear thee children, who shall replenish the Cains blood line ever completely ended. From the evidence above, one might conclude that Gods plan was flawed from the start. Adam, Cain, Abraham, Moses- all nicknames. BOTH MET AND STARTED HAVING CHILDREN.The Question is WHO ELSE DID JEHOVA OUTSIDE THIS FSMILY????? Well for all men to have 'inherited' death there would have to be just 1 Adam right? This page was generated at 02:51 AM. DOUBTING IS PERMISSIBLE BUT DENIAL IS FOOLISHNESS. Angels taking on human form and humans was a bad and evil combo. Man didnt write the bible, God did, cain married one of his sisters, dont yall understand anything! that intercourse between such close relatives was specifically forbidden.Leviticus 18:9, 17, 24. At Leviticus 8:6-17 it clearly showed that close family relatives were not to marry one another. The human race also evolved with this soul, or nephesh, like the animals. The Bible is a spiritual book. Who did Shem Ham and Japheth marry? (The number 8 always means New Beginnings.) Then God said, and now we will make humans beings, they will be like us He blessed them and said, have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. Where did you get this information? This happens at the beginning of the seventh day. Of course Adam was the first Biblically recorded agriculturalist, hes the first man. Yes, at the end of the last ice age it became much easier to maintain long term agriculture and domestication. All of them are not recorded. Wake up people God would want us to live in perfect harmony, eating the fruits and vegetables that grow from the earth, keeping our children protected and raising them to make the world a better place. Luluwa (also Aclima) according to some religious traditions was the oldest daughter of Adam and Eve, the twin sister of Cain and wife of Abel. That is NOT in 1 Enoch, which is the third most frequent manuscript discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. I wish thee to marry, from This is the 21st century. In the earliest part of the Zohar, humans have an animal soul (nephesh) whose desires are the source of sin, and and intellectual soul (neshamah) that functions to serve as a stimulus to religious activity. Btw: The 6000 years often referred to as the time since creation, is in fact the age of Adams bloodline. Assuming that Adrian and Menashe are still talking about Genesis 1 and 2, there are no glitches.. February 13 2015 CB, How would anyone know and be able to pass on an accurate description of what happened so many generations before there was a written word? So, domestication is right there, in Genesis one, with the first man (Adam). Than seth had kids with azura. The Bible is clear and states explicitly thatall scripture is inspired by God and profitable for doctrine therefore infallible, that is all scripture is to be interpreted literary. We have to understand the account of people in the Bible. She is a polar opposite in personality of her brother. THIS man and his wife Chavah Eve were LIVING souls. Only when later generations inherited these material did they think that they need the glitches to be explained or interpreted. The appellative Form is also used for the other creatures and plants, without any creationist ever demanded only two individuals at the beginning of each kind. No doubt it was one of these daughters that Cain took for a wife. The Bible reminds us that we return to dust when we die. The girls got their father drunk and had sex with him (Genesis 19:33-35). The great majority of open questions that we have from ancient Biblical history were not open questions when they were written. Not as a spesific person, but as a lot as men and women in plural. 1. So we should heed Pauls counsel to Timothy (1 Tim 6:3-5) do not be teachers of things contrary to the Christ. They intermarry and even I have some HN in me. They grew up in Sodom and Gomorrah, cities associated with sexual immorality and unnatural lust, according to Britannica. What is being asked in, Who did Cain marry? Should the explanation in Genesis on how God created plants before the sun affect the understanding of creation? And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. In the course of time, Cain married his twin . What matters most is that the blood of Abel cried for judgement but the blood of Christ plead for mercy, learn that and move on. That Cain married his sister or a later female descendant of Adam through the marriage of any of Adams sons or daughters is viewed by some societies today as unthinkable. Its a real shame that the writer chose to ignore several items in the Bible. Besides, God did not give man the right to eat animals until after the flood (Genesis 9:2-4). The selectivity with which fundamentalist choose what they take literally from the babylonian cosmology is not based on sound exegesis but on what is defensible based on having limited knowledge of science and what is not defensible even with the sketchiest knowledge of science. There were no other womenjust one woman, Eve. How did the spirit of God move upon the face of the waters in Genesis 1:2? And in the first year of the first week of the fifth jubilee, houses were built on the earth, and Cain built a city, and called its name after the name of his son Enoch. So Cains wife was already a mother or he wouldnt have referred to her as a cow. Unless all Adams committed sin together? There is also the fact God had to breathe life into the newly produced body of Adam (Gen. 2:7). The Flat Earth model is an archaic belief that the Earths shape is a plane or disk. If the Bible is silent on a topic it was either know by everyone and was insignificant to pass on or God deemed it unimportant to reveal to His prophets. 3. This goes to the heart of some of the misunderstandings about who Adam and his line was. The original intention of family was to reflect God's character but more than that: it provides a safe place where children can experience God's love (through their parents) and learn how to love other people, Focus on the Familystated. Edit: the humans gathered fruits, cabbage, seed and whathaveyou from the open expanse (Gen. 1:29). By modern legal definition, Cain would have had to commit incest with one of his sisters in order to create offspring because he had no other choice. The assumption is that the genealogical record of the births of Cain and Abel is complete and that there were no other children born at that time. The nephesh hayyah (soul of the living), the lesser of the two, was formed from the earth when Adam was created, and it has a terrestrial, physical origin in every man (p.708). Lugalbanda may have also discovered the foretelling of future events through dreams, as the poem describes him making a bed out of the pure herb of the mountains, where he lay down not to sleep, he lay down to dream not turning back at the door of the dream, not turning back at the door-pivot. Cain could have physically married another human being that had not received the breath of God. Cain was told that when he farmed, nothing would be produced. With Adam and Eve out of the garden, all activities were outside the garden. I cant get worked up over this question. Sure, but chronologically it does not make sense. The KJV says it correctly: Gen 3:20, And Adam called his wifes name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. He is very angry because God liked Abel better. I misunderstood your reference to the idea of a flat earth. Between 20,000 and 120,000 years ago there was no Persian Gulf. After they disobeyed God he told eve you shall have great pain giving birth this tells me she had given birth before without the curse of pain since they lived so much longer I believe they married each other in some way, Its easy Cain married one of his sisters, just because they are not mentioned in the Bible doesnt mean they dont exist. This can be done for a number of names and personal characteristics. Cain and Abel were twins. to the fountain of Lamneth. This tells that the brothers were not living together with their parents n likewise other siblings. He created heavens shamayim first, remember. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve had three sons: Cain, Abel, Seth and additional sons and daughters. The twin has been a popular soap opera plot device and character for decades. God does not condone murder (or war), God does not condone utilizing money or giving other humans power or authority. I do not hold to an evolutionary model. Trump also revealed that he had never liked McCain, per CBS News. Sign up to receive our email newsletter and never miss an update. John Sidney McCain IV, 32. That was the key relationship between them, not their kinship. The most likely translation would include an implied of, as found in many English translations (see below). God made man and woman. Fountain of Lamneth, by Rush. There could have been several children before or even after Cain and after Able even. Now, I can apply these meanings to my life and understand the differences. Not because he 'slept' with her.. God commanded humanity to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28; 9:1) and thus it was necessary to marry ones own relative. Cain's wife and brother-sister intermarriage. There was a city in Nod, people had to build it, it didnt just happen and Cain was concerned that someone would kill him, so there were more people around. Genesis chapters 3 and 4 present the following information: (1) Eve was the mother of everyone living. (2) Time elapsed between the birth of Cain and his offering the sacrifice that was rejected by God. Man without Christ is not a living soul. When God created Adam and Eve, they were perfect,, but, because of disobedience they lost perfection and died, (1 Timothy 2:13, 14), (Romans 5:12). In theory, this would have dropped the worlds population from four down to three. So its a clear evidence that GOD promoted that kind of marriage in the early times. The lack of respect in evidence-based science in favor of stories passed along generations trying to figure out the origin of all things is incredible. So, which is it? See above for these points. Along the way he becomes ill and his brothers leave him in a cave supplied with provisions until he should recouperate. It was not accordingly to as the events unfolds or do you think Lamech Cains son is older than Seth Adams third son? NO NEED TO BOTHER YOUR HEAD. Where did all these people in Nod come from if Adam and Eve are the original people created? And she I firmly believe that there were no actual individuals named Adam or Eve that were the beginnings of the human or Hebrew race. I will also add that on day six, God created animals which are domesticated, wild animals and creeping animals. Two people equals mankind. 49,000 Yrs. The HIM always refers to an individual. I live to climb that mountain Share (Gen. 4:14) Only human being are capable of inflicting a punishment! Jeremiah is from the dust as well (Eccl. Adam wished that each should marry the sister of the other; but Cain's sister was the handsomer of the two and had been born in paradise; while Abel and his sister had been begotten outside of the garden. Have a great day. 4 Seth, however, did not wish to marry; but in obedience to his father and Abraham in Gen 22:2). I have not heard of Christianity stating that no one could clone animals, geneticly modify genes or make an atomic bomb. We will quote Genesis 4:1-2 from the Authorized King James Version, the New American Standard Version and the New International Version. But the writer of the bible did assume that we could figure out that there were more children born to Adam and Eve, that is why when the lifespan verse of the Christ lineage males always say (and they begat sons and daughters; and they died). If you dont believe the biblical narrative,as another replier has mention it is open to any assumption or presupposition. It is understood as plural, because the verb to rule, in verse 26, is plural let them rule. Why would it be plural? G-d rested on the 7th Daythe first Sabbath. Guess what we find in the area of the Arabian river system: gold, bdellium and onyx. The names Cain and Cainan indicate a possible system for surnaminv children or wives. And suddenly it all makes sense, right? Now that said, I am more interested in what my creator took from Adam and made Eve his soulmate. It is all myth. Any inquisitive child asks the same question. well that was a lot of side stepping for a very clear cut passage. In July 2016, news emerged that Heidi Swafford had been stabbed multiple times during a fight. Cain was a farmer, but Abel was a rancher. Genesis has at least one vague reference to other hominids which I assumed to be Neanderthals. In 2 Cor 15:22/45 Paul makes it clear that Jesus came as no.2 as the second Adam. The effect that genetics and heredity have on us might not have been a factor for them. The ending of Genesis 5:4 does not indicate the timing of the birth of sisters anymore than and was evening and was morning at the end of each creation day, means that they occurred after the events of the day. Theyre just the human beings from the first chapter. Yet my eyes are drawn toward I've been re-reading the pragmatic genesis series. 4. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/150120-gobekli-tepe-oldest-monument-turkey-archaeology/, Agriculture 23,000 Yrs. There is no clear biblical evidence to support the view that Cain and Abel may have been twins. This was possible in those days because 1) God allowed . One should also understand that what we see as written scripture to be read and studied was in ancient times often oral traditions that were recited to the main population who were most often illiterate in early ancient times. Douglas McCain, 58; Andrew McCain, 56; Sidney McCain, 51; Meghan McCain, 33. we are say elot of things but never knew the right truth. While there are many examples of strong and inspiring men and women in Genesis, the book is also packed with stories of dysfunctional families, which is evidenced from the very beginning with the first familyAdam, Eve and their two children, Cain and Abel. If the latter is the case, Cain could have found a wife pretty much anywhere. Its obvious that Adam and Eve might have other children. (It was from this line that Cain took his wife from the land of Nod. There is no way to tell how much time is involved in Genesis 5 and 11. Youre adding and detracting from the Bible. Without birth control there could have been hundreds of people alive when Abel was murdered. The stories of the OT were meant to teach the faith, they didnt have to actually have happened or happened that way. Throwing darts at at a map and hoping one will stick. Adam and Eve. Will Cain is an American conservative political analyst and sports commentator who started working as a news panelist in 2010 and was most notably featured in programs of Fox network and ESPN. was? The first is singular form (him) and the second is plural form (them). Furthermore, recent studies, such as one published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling, show that unions between first cousins face lower risks of having children with birth defects than is widely perceived. FREE ebook: Exploring Genesis: The Bibles Ancient Traditions in Context where and what is Nod. So, he was to take care of plant life for he and the animals. but chapter 2 shows us of how God accomplished His intentions. The children grew up . Who would and why would someone look for Cain to do him harm? COPYRIGHT 2023 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY 5614 Connecticut Ave NW #343, Washington DC 20015-2604. Some/much of Genesis falls into this categoryYou guys that want to read it ALL as a literal history/science book, more power to you. The sons these sisters bore would start two tribes related to but frequently in conflict with Israel: the Moabites and Ammonites. If God wanted us to know. He murdered Abel and was banished by the Lord from the settled country. Cain since enlisted help from his estranged brother Caleb in the battle . gives my heart no peace. Should we make an issue of this or not? Did you read the quotes from Jesus (God in the flesh)? In the book of Jubilees, chapter4, verse 1 & 9, (it tells us that Cain married his sister, wn bint Adam); verse 1 says And in the third week in the second jubilee [64-70 A.M.] she gave birth to Cain, and in the fourth [71-77 A.M.] she gave birth to Abel, and in the fifth [78-84 A.M.] she gave birth to her daughter wn. DNA and genes can tell alot about living and dead organisms. Then Cain kills Abel as Seth kills Osiris Yes they both were of multiple births. It rather depends on whether you believe that all adamic people descend literally from a single Adam-man and an Eve-woman, or whether those two are part of an allegorical story where they are metaphors for the created Adamic race as a whole. Gen. 3:23 So the Lord God sent him from (min) the garden of Eden, to work the ground (adamah) that he had been taken (laqach) from (min). Nod means land of wandering so Cain went to land of wandering that means he left Gods presence and was wandering about east of the garden. This matches the descriptions of the land of Havilah. Biblical Archaeology Society []. (17) Cain knew his wife.--As Jehovah had told Eve that He would "greatly multiply her conception" (Genesis 3:16), we cannot doubt but that a numerous offspring had grown up in the 130 years that intervened between the birth of Cain and that of Seth, the substitute for Abel.As a rule, only the eldest son is mentioned in the genealogies, and Abel's birth is chronicled . James McCain, 30; Bridget McCain, 26 . Lilith, Tobit is said to have been witness to both the revolt of the ten tribe kingdoms of Israel and the deportation to Nineveh. Also the used verbs of the first chapter (asah, bara) have completely different meanings as those (jatzar, banah) of the second one. This article implies, perhaps states, that Adam and Eve were not the first or only people created by a special act of God. Genesis 4:1-2 describes the birth of the two saying (KJV): "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Geb and Nut in the Hebrew pantheon are Adam and Eve who begot four twin sons, two males Abel and Cain, and two females. The other flowed from Oman and Yemen. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob married their own relatives so as to avoid intermarrying non-believers. And he lacked seventy years of one thousand years; for one thousand years are as one day in the testimony of the heavens and therefore was it written concerning the tree of knowledge: On the day that ye eat thereof ye shall die. For this reason he did not complete the years of this day; for he died during it. God said, Let the earth bring forth every kind of living soul (nephesh)' (Genesis 1:24). http://www.jstor.org/stable/2742674?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, Ancient Religious Monuments 12,000 Yrs. 54 Please ensure your answer MEETS all our guidelines. Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, Golden Legend by Jacopo da Varazze, Historia Scholastica in Gen 4:1 (PL 198, 1076) by Peter Comestor, Seder ha-Dorot: Cain married his sister Calmana and Abel married another sister Delbora How many twins did Adam and Eve have? 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We have no way of knowing if Cain was the first child. Not sure why you mention your Masters in Pastoral Theology. How could we imagine that animals could punish Cain? In some real, but mysterious, manner the bride was formed from the side of her husband. This was a lush oasis. Every dictionary can be Testament to it. Megan Sauter, 2019. Almost every day some People experienced the events of this story. In Isaiah 22:18 dur refers to a bundle, not a ball. Genesis 1:1 introduces the creation of the universe and 1:2 focuses in on the earth in its initial state. By enhancing Socialism with Darwinism, Communism emerged as a powerful movement led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, later wrenching control of Russia in the Revolution of 1917. This is the meaning of But man does not remain in honor. We, the Mormons have known this since the.restoration over 180 years ago. Neither the Bible nor the church taught that you would fall off the edge of the world. read the second book of Adam and Eve chapter 1. An important factor that contributes to this mindset is geography. Im only using Jewish sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines Genesis 4:14 presupposes that someone, knowing what had happened, would be looking for Cain, whoever finds me. Why would anyone outside the land of Eden (his family) know about him killing his brother? Thats why its important to read the Bible over and over, as you and your spirit mature, you will understand more. When Adam and Eve left the Garden, their family consisted of four generations numbering 1,647 pure-line descendants. whether they were human or not is another question. SCIENCE IS BELIEVING WHAT EVIDENCE IS AVAILABLE RATHER THAN THE PERCEIVED ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE. The Samarians told this story well before, along with the flood story and many others. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister, and Abel to marry Cain's. What was Cain and Abel's brother name? This has been directly tested for sheep, horses, etc. Who were the other people that could kill Cain? In the Islamic tradition that comes from prophets sons , Shia , there is another view regarding Canes wife . His bloodline ended with the flood. If we are incapable of understanding cultural and historical context, then its better to remain silent. By the time of Abraham, his birthplace, the advanced city of Ur in Chaldea, was a river port. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Loponte/publication/258529165_Complete_Mitochondrial_Genomes_of_Ancient_Canids_Suggest_a_European_Origin_of_Domestic_Dogs/links/0deec52966c4b5229c000000.pdf, Clothes 30,000 Yrs And since the family is central to Gods purposes and work on earth, his judgment on this practice is fierce as stated in the Christian Courier. the reason Cain and Abel are written in there is because of the sin Cain committed, before the event of Cain killing his brother Abel, no man had ever taken a life. By biblical standards,however, Cain was not breaking any laws because these did not exist at the time. Domestication arose in the end of the 6. To me it seems Cains wife was actually Eve. Thanks to a find in Israel just last week, we know that modern or Cro-Magnon man is a full 50,000 years older than we thought. It is folly to be too literal, perhaps the reason Jesus spoke in parables. GET KNOWLEDGE.. DO NOT COMPLICATE THINGS FOR YOURSELVES, THE WORD NOD IN HEBREWS MEANS WANDERER AND CAIN WAS PRONOUNCED A WANDERER FOR HIS ACT. Was Cain even the first born? Stop majoring on the minor. This means that verse two is further explaining what earth looked like at its creation. And of course its possible, that both of them had had brothers and sisters (and (grand-)parents, aunts, uncles and cousins as well). I believe that Adam and Eve were the first people of Gods creation he went on to create other people. Marriage between brother and sister was not made taboo until Moses. Isaac and his wife Rebekah are the first couple mentioned in the Bible to have twins. The Bible doesnt say he was, it just mentions him first. What matters is Love. fasting, praying, and with hard labours, until the end of our father Adams Christians started most of the sciences. Which means interbreeding. God has made a convincing case against incest and demonstrated that incest is both a cause of and a result of disobedience and pain. There were no other people on earth at that time. WHY DID MARY LEITH ASK SUCH A POINTLESS QUESTION WHEN THE ANSWER IS CLEARLY IN GENESIS 5; 3-4? Does it Matter That I Didn't Keep My Goals for Lent? Modern mitochondrial eve experiments confirm the timeframe of the biblical Eve. So it is faith we must go by. Asked October 21 2014 I'm only telling you why Ruth, as a Moabite, traced her genealogy back to Lot and his daughters in the cave in Genesis 19. Catch up with Candices scriptural studies at her blogWordwell.ca. If we follow your interpretaion through, then Noah should have had daughters (Gen. 5:30). That is a convoluted question if you follow the grammar. The Bible is clear there is but one, the human race. http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Babylonian-Talmud.pdf, Midrash Rabbah, Bereshith, Ch. Language is man made and therefore anything ever said, written, or read is based solely on interpretation. Things may have turned out differently should Cain have repented, accepted his punishment without complaint, and moved when The Lord said Move.(i.e. While genetic mutation is not specifically mentioned in Mosaic law, only references to being unclean or defiled (Leviticus 18:24), Don Stewart asserts that God did not permit intermarriage among his chosen people to lessen the likelihood of genetic issues. Many like to look beyond the truth of the bible, and peer into artfully contrived stories of Jewish mystics and story tellers. Its the same process of conception, precnancy and birth. In I Corinthians 15:45, Paul tells us that the first man Adam was made a living soul. In other words, Adam was the first manthere were no other men at the beginning. You nailed it. The "Tree" in the Garden represents the Races. 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