The character of Tubal-Cain, the movie's lead villain, is almost entirely invented. Man didnt write the bible, God did, cain married one of his sisters, dont yall understand anything! We dont hear about them, except in passing in Genesis 5, because they arent part of a story like Cain and Abel were. Abraham in Gen 22:2). The Bible is pretty explicit in saying that Eve is the mother of all humanity. The logical conclusion is that Cain married one of his sisters and until a prophet of God comes along and tells us otherwise that is what we should accept. All of mankind is mortal and doomed to eternal death without the atoning blood of Christ. Third, the Bible says man is not to live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The Bible says that after he killed his brother Abel, Cain married a wife. Adam and Eve. So the wives of Cain, Henoch, Noah etc. The best answer is he married a female relative. and over the years that imperfection has worsened, until now, we average the three score and ten This argument is seemingly bolstered by Hebrews 11:4, which called Abel's sacrifice a "more excellent sacrifice" that could be referring to quality. Blue Letter Bible, "Where Did Cain Get His Wife?" Its a real shame that the writer chose to ignore several items in the Bible. In other words, children and parents are not to have sexual relations with or marry each other; yet, no actual laws about incest were given in the unspoiled world of Eden before the Fall, or even before the Exodus. My book tells you all that, Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham. You MUST either accept the existence of other Humans outside of Eden or abandon your faith and reason. WHEN SONS AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORNE, EMPHASIS WAS ALWAYS EXCEPT IN RARE SITUATIONS, ON SONS. fasting, praying, and with hard labours, until the end of our father Adams Army 1SG, firefighter, consultant (CFPS) - retired from all. Why did Cain then kill Abel? I firmly believe that there were no actual individuals named Adam or Eve that were the beginnings of the human or Hebrew race. Their creation in Gods image in Gen. 1.27 refers to the typical human Features like intelligence. 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? Vote Up It only gave the motions from an earth bound point of view. the Bible doesnt give us the information of it because its God minded not to reveal the secret. And it is not only Cane who got married but also other sons of Adam ,peace be upon him , like Sheeth and Yafeth who also got to another nymphs . 3:19-20, 12:7). There were also the creation of God,But,fallen condition.To be specific humanoid. Also: a very good question is that if the Adam and Eve story was entirely fictional, how did the person composing the original or at least the biblical version know that snakes used to walk on four legs? Once for all HE is coming to setup the kingdom made of pure human beings that is created in His own image.The choosen one according to the seed of Abraham by the law of faith. He exhorts his offspring How powerless is your god? For the non-believers, JESUS is the truth, if u do not believe that, u have work to do. Gen 2:20 No suitable helper was found How do we know that Cain was not already married when he murdered Abel? That is the evolutionary interpretation of the Adam of the Y Chromosome. It could very well refer to the Biblical Adam. He was followed by his sister and Eveson, the second son of Adam and Eve. God isnt a jew, Adam wasnt a jew, Noah wasnt a jew, Adam and Eve were procreating long befor the fall(be fruitful and multiply) I study TNaKh with enthusiasm and wonder as I engage the text not with fear and limitation.In my opinion to look at the text like a fundamentalist does actually denigrates the Bible and makes this wonderful and complex source seem simply stupid. 4. Sounds like a lot of assumptions in her article which denigrate the Biblical record into a biased account of one of, in the authors eyes, just many people on the earth. People are required to tithe even though the Holy Bible came out thousands of years before paper currency. When the plain sense makes sense, seek no other sense (most of the time). As Jesus told the Pharisees. So Cains wife was already a mother or he wouldnt have referred to her as a cow. And yes, it's cruel that God rejected Cain's offering without giving a good reason and found favor in his brother's instead. Yes, Cain and Abel did have sisters. This is also called the vital soul, since the Hebrew word for vitality is hiyyut is akin to the word for beasts, hayyot. Consistently, the calculations overestimated the size of the founding population. The sea levels were too low. Does the Bible encourage the practice of Lent? the Cain wife is an Abel twins sister,because if you look at the book of Old Testament there allows mention males name not female name that is why the dont mention her name and because man are the head of family, The cain wife is Abel twin sister, Because if you look at the books of Old Testament, there allows mention male but not female that is why Bible dont mention har name because man are the head of the family, Then let us try to find the real name of Cain wife and where he get her, we are learning. Not until after the Tower of Babel did humans migrate outside of the Arabian peninsula. When Cain went into the land of Nod and took a wife, he married a Gentile, of which there were many in the land outside of Eden. It is likely that Cain married a sister. Genesis 4:16-17 does not say that Cain married his wife after leaving Eden. Gen 1 vs 26 down has made it knwn that humans were there before adam jst that he (God) wanted to point out that he want the best out of adams family wch is us, and he created adam after seventh days people should read their bible well before commenting. Like todays Torah service in a traditional Jewish Shabbat service the text was read aloud at an auience. who he eventually married and Abel was part of a set of triplets Also the used verbs of the first chapter (asah, bara) have completely different meanings as those (jatzar, banah) of the second one. When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. Note that beginning in Chapter 2 it talks first of God resting from his creative works, then in verse 4 it says that these are the generations, or history, of the heavens and earth in the day that they were created and then it basically goes on to describe the creation Adam and how Eve was produced from Adams rib. 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. The majority understanding for the last 2,000 years has been that Adam was the first man and Eve the first woman, and that God started with just two people (Genesis 1:27, 2:7, 22-24, 3:20; Book of Tobit 8:6; Book of Jubilees 2:14, 23; Antiquities Bk. 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. Thats another meaningful evidence for the animalistic origin of the first humans. The book of Genesis mentions three of Adam and Eve's children: Cain, Abel and Seth. Adam, Cain, Abraham, Moses- all nicknames. To survive the famine, many turned to cannibalism. CHILDREN OF THIS TIME ARE TOO CURIOUSE. Except that nobody from Adam to Abram was a Jew. Are we to restrict what God can do? 80 kg. In Genesis one both male and female are singular in Hebrew. I do not find on Amazon. Although Gods Word offers wisdom and direction in the matter of marriage and sexual behavior in order to protect His children, many people are living with genetic illness, the sin of having committed incest, or the shame of victimization. So, he was to take care of plant life for he and the animals. Genesis 5:1-3 links the male of chapter one with Adam of chapter two. And dont forget all those ghosts,and other scary creatures.Depending on where and when you lived things can be very different .Humans have been commiting mass murder of those who have different beliefs and are still murdering to this day.Tens of Millions of people have been murdered in the name of Christainity based on the hate they learned from clergy. Jesus traced his lineage back to Ruth through the line of His adopted father, Joseph. (2Tim. Cain got his wife the same way Adam did, God caused a deep sleep to come upon him and took one of his ribs and made him a wife. If Cain and his sister had children together, they would have passed on genetic mutations leading to birth defects and a host of diseases. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2742674?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, Ancient Religious Monuments 12,000 Yrs. Your holy book is filled with stories that are just that: stories. Of course, there was no formal marriage ceremony; there was no law against incest; the gene pool was still so pure that there was no requirement for any incest regulation. A figment of imagination. Since Tishbys book is an anthology, he was careful to omit one detail of which I have been unable to find an English translation of: the intriguing reference to cannabis in the context of a fleeting comprehension of the knowledge of God (Zohar; The Book of Enlightenment, by Daniel Matt. Also, Bible made no connection of the incidence with Adam and Eve. Facts before speculation. https://www.academia.edu/10440502/Cosmogonies_and_Theogonies. 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. We worship him because he is set apart, Holy and righteous. 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. Thats because there is no logical answer. The audience understood the cultural cues and were unconcerned about narrative contradictions and inconsistencies as they had an entirely different way of thinking than us moderns do. In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Modern humans prior to 5,000 years ago are no different from those afterwards. Its the same process of conception, precnancy and birth. Yes, it's unfair that Cain, as a farmer, inherited his father's curse. If you would study the bible and not some sci fi novel then you would understand that for times sake you cant fit every detail of creation into the bible. Seth and the host of Adam & Eves children were subsequent to Cains marriageas in it couldnt be possible that Cain married a sister. Just smile a lot and get something to eat. IF YOU SAYCAIN GOT HIS WIFE FROM NOD TOWN OR VILLAGEREMEMBER-GOD CREATED ADAM IN HIS LIKNESS & IMAGE THEN FROM SAME ADAM GOD MADE EVE. the rh factor stuff definitely proves there is an outsider element to the human gene pool. You did not grab a ball on the way. And It could be by that time because life was still quite pristine Adam & Even could have had several other children, daughters, perhaps, or even granddaughters that Cain might have married. The point isnt that Adam and Eve are the ultimate first agriculturalists ever, but the first biblically recorded ones. So the serpent came crawling because the angels free will was tested first. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022821 Wild!! Mary Joan Winn Leith first explores the traditional Jewish and Christian answers that contend that the wife of Cain was another daughter of Adam and Eve. Unfortunately human species also became one among the fallen. Im a follower of Christ and love God. Protestant pastor hereParts of the Old Testament are not meant to be read as literal history. Tobias is prompted by the angel to marry the widow and uses the heart and liver to drive off the wicked spirit and later uses the gall to restore Tobits sight. The idea of directly forming a human out of dust or mud would raise much laughter among old Hebrews. Cain had a twin sister, God commanded humanity to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28; 9:1) and thus it was necessary to marry ones own relative. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod ( . childrens children, and brought them to his father Adam. Jesus appears to believe Genesis literally since He quoted from the book nearly 30 times. The story said nothing of Cain repenting for the murder of his brother, only that he felt his punishment was unjust. The regulations of the Law of Moses were binding only upon those to whom it was given at the time, according to the Christian Courier. Read a study bible or the Amplified version. 4 But when our father Adam saw them around him, he wept at having to be What if Cain simply had a twin sister? I have questioned this subject for fifty years and have finally concluded that my salvation is not required to know what happened to Cain and his life other than he was the first killer. But if Adam and Eve his parents were the only ones left besides Cain (Abel was dead, remember), did he fear his parents then? Lilith, Don Stewart. 1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord. Why does BAR continually post heretical articles? All written by man. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131273, Disruptions from the ice age and low population size make evidence harder to find meaning that the above data are just the oldest that we have found so far. They, like the first couple, were also formed together as one body and then became two. This means that verse two is further explaining what earth looked like at its creation. 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.) The only possible answer is that Cain's wife was his sister or niece or great-niece, etc. The known twins of the Bible include the following: Jacob and Esau: These two brothers are certainly the best-known set of twins in Scripture. Two people equals mankind. Vote Up Share There is no way to tell the difference between HN and HHS. Mervyn. See above for these points. And why notonly some of us are married, but were all related. Its about time to review our view of Adams and Eves reality of life! G-d rested on the 7th Daythe first Sabbath. The earliest and perhaps most natural answer we find in the second century B.C.E. He built brand new creatures (being both physical and spiritual) of the dust from the earth and a rib, and shaped them into the human form. Let me go through these two aspects in some detail. What matters is Love. Only later would families see the genetic results of intermarriage inter-family procreation. Instead of loving his Abel, he did the opposite and brutally murdered his brother. Romans 3:23, 24 says that we have all sinned, but we have a free gift of forgiveness due to the fact that Jesus gave his life for ALL mankind..BUT we have to take advantage of that ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Lastly, Jesus in Mark 10:6-8 combines the language of Genesis 1 and 2. His bloodline ended with the flood. The worldwide flood destroyed everyone as confirmed in 2 Peter 2 and 3, so comparing the pre-flood civilizations to modern near east cultures that ignore distant settlements is in either disingenuous or ignorant. Of course, Gen. 2.7 is in the womb too. This is an absurd question to whom did a mythical character in a mythical story get married? Indeed from medieval sources we find that Cain married his sister Calmana and Abel married another sister Delbora (as we are told by several sources very late: 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) exactly as in the Egyptian myth the two brothers Osiris and Seth marry with his two sisters Isis and Nephthys. whether they were human or not is another question. I wish thee to marry, from DOUBTING IS PERMISSIBLE BUT DENIAL IS FOOLISHNESS. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910142352.htm Adam and Eve were right in the middle of it. Neshamah does not mean spirit of knowledge. The breath of life refers to living and breathing. read the second book of Adam and Eve chapter 1. 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