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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
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Your question is based on a major false assumption. In the biblical fairytale, only Jews are considered men and humans. Everyone else is considered an animal, a beast, a dog, a snake, a donkey, a swine. So, Adam and Eve were the first to get involved with the biblical God and are regarded as the "parents" of the Jews.
If you read the fairytale you will see that other people existed at that time and had their own towns.
Refer to Genesis 4:14-17 (CEB) = "14 Now that you’ve driven me away from the fertile land and I am hidden from your presence, I’m about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”
15 The Lord said to him, “It won’t happen;[a] anyone who kills Cain will be paid back seven times.” The Lord put a sign on Cain so that no one who found him would assault him. 16 Cain left the Lord’s presence, and he settled down in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Cain’s descendants
17 Cain knew his wife intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch."
So, as you can see, there were other people but they were not related to Adam & Eve. Cain married a stranger. That was later considered sinful.
BTW, there is also a story in the Bible about the king of Tyre living in the Garden of Eden but he got kicked out because he collaborated with the enemy. And, in Genesis, it says that the Garden of Eden was surrounded by other countries.
If Adam and Eve are the first humans, and they had two sons Cain as Abel, where did Cains wife come from?
Your question is based on a major false assumption. In the biblical fairytale, only Jews are considered men and humans. Everyone else is considered an animal, a beast, a dog, a snake, a donkey, a swine. So, Adam and Eve were the first to get involved with the biblical God and are regarded as the "parents" of the Jews.
If you read the fairytale you will see that other people existed at that time and had their own towns.
Refer to Genesis 4:14-17 (CEB) = "14 Now that you’ve driven me away from the fertile land and I am hidden from your presence, I’m about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”
15 The Lord said to him, “It won’t happen;[a] anyone who kills Cain will be paid back seven times.” The Lord put a sign on Cain so that no one who found him would assault him. 16 Cain left the Lord’s presence, and he settled down in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Cain’s descendants
17 Cain knew his wife intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch."
So, as you can see, there were other people but they were not related to Adam & Eve. Cain married a stranger. That was later considered sinful.
BTW, there is also a story in the Bible about the king of Tyre living in the Garden of Eden but he got kicked out because he collaborated with the enemy. And, in Genesis, it says that the Garden of Eden was surrounded by other countries.
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@Diotrephes Modern day Iraq then.
I’m not very good at Babylonian myths of about 1500bc and their integration into Judaism in about 550bc during the exile.
I think the writers of Genesis are asking, simple questions like why are we here? Why is this world in such a mess?
We could ask the same questions today, under the backdrop of irreversible global warming and mankind’s greed.
I’m not very good at Babylonian myths of about 1500bc and their integration into Judaism in about 550bc during the exile.
I think the writers of Genesis are asking, simple questions like why are we here? Why is this world in such a mess?
We could ask the same questions today, under the backdrop of irreversible global warming and mankind’s greed.