Let me solve an age-long puzzle:
CAIN MARRIED HIS SISTER and so did Seth!
Facts to bear in mind.
1. No one human being survived the pre-adamic flood
2. Adam was first man
3. Eve was first woman
4. Adam didn’t have children before the fall if not there will be a holy lineage on earth that doesn’t need salvation. - Romans 3:23
5. Eve was the mother of all humans - Genesis 3:20
6. And yes, Adam & Eve had daughters - Genesis 5:4
Based on this scripture: Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of ALL LIVING.
If Adam was the FIRST MAN and EVE the first woman as well as the mother of ALL LIVING, it suffice to say that Cain married his sister. That’s the only way procreation was going to be done, anyway! Remember God gave Adam and Eve the instruction to populate the world, how else would they have done it?
I can also argue that Adam was Eve’s brother & vice verse because they had one father:
Genesis 1:27
So God created man (singular) in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (plural).
Were there examples of this?
Abraham & Sarah
Isaac married his cousin
Jacob also married his relatives Leah/Rachael
Moses’ father married his aunt etc.....
There was no law against incest until THE LAW was given in Leviticus 18.
So can we move on to weightier matters????
Someone sent me me this question so I decided to include it under this right up:
Q: Who are the people Cain went to live with in the land of Nod?
We need to always read the bible for ourselves, the people never mention he went to live with the people of Nod:
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. - Genesis 4:16 (KJV)
Cain went to land to live and begin his family, just like every grown will when he leaves his parents. And he started a family there possibly with his sister he took from home.
There are few things we don’t take into consideration surrounding this issue.
1. When we read the bible we usually assume that events happened the next day or next week. Unless otherwise stated, we should not assume such.
2. Still on assumptions, some false doctrines are also created from assumptions that are totally inconsistent with the word of God. And we hand these doctrines down without questioning them and researching on them.
3. Adam lived for almost a millennium. Statistics shows that in 1,000 years a family can grow from 50 viable couples to 2.33 x 10 raised to power 45. That is a large number - it is in millions.
I used a population calculator online and calculated population of 20 people over a 1,000 years period ( I used year 1000 to year 2000), and the result was 3,000,000 people (I admit the population growth for the time of Adam might be lower but this gives an idea of the population growth)
Within the first 500 years, Adam will have a town or towns with several villages.
And it is the nature of the MALE to seek independence, so they will move out to conquer lands and be their own man.
3. Theologians believe that Adam and Eve had daughters even before Cain. They say this based on Genesis 4:1 (KJV)
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
It appears as if she was grateful that finally she has a baby boy after several female children.
With these few points of mine I hope this age long myth is solved so we can move on.
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See you at the next one!
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