Adstar · 56-60, M
Cains extended brothers and sisters. from Adam and Eve but also from Adam and Eve's other decendants.. Remember people lived for many hundreds of years in those times.. Adam would have still been alive when the 10th generation of His decendants had been born on earth..
Note the Bible does not say Cain and Able where the only children of Eve nor does it say that Eve only had Cain and Able as sons.. People read many things into the Bible.. things that the Bible never states..
The story of Cain and Able simply document the first murder carried out and established what sacrafice would be acceptable to God ( Blood Sacrafice )..
Note the Bible does not say Cain and Able where the only children of Eve nor does it say that Eve only had Cain and Able as sons.. People read many things into the Bible.. things that the Bible never states..
The story of Cain and Able simply document the first murder carried out and established what sacrafice would be acceptable to God ( Blood Sacrafice )..
peterlee · M
I think you should go on an Alpha Course. That will help you a lot.
A really good commentary on Genesis is that of Phil Moore, part of his 60 bite size insights series. That will open up the book a little to you.
Somehow , I think you are thinking that Genesis is a sort of Biblical Wikipedia.
My degree incidentally is in Theoretical Physics, I assume you think of the world in terms of Newtonian Physics. Not a Quantum one. The Book of Genesis was written in an even earlier one. Its revelations resonate as well today as they did when it was first written down. None of us are without sin. Meditate on the message behind it, and see how it fits in with God’s Grace and the efficacy of the Cross.
A really good commentary on Genesis is that of Phil Moore, part of his 60 bite size insights series. That will open up the book a little to you.
Somehow , I think you are thinking that Genesis is a sort of Biblical Wikipedia.
My degree incidentally is in Theoretical Physics, I assume you think of the world in terms of Newtonian Physics. Not a Quantum one. The Book of Genesis was written in an even earlier one. Its revelations resonate as well today as they did when it was first written down. None of us are without sin. Meditate on the message behind it, and see how it fits in with God’s Grace and the efficacy of the Cross.
Pfuzylogic · M
I know the Holy Bible very well.
I don’t qualify myself as a scholar but I am very comfortable with the Bible and believe ALL of it.
The Bible is not intended as a total history of creation. There is enough there to qualify the Big Bang” as vapid and just an imagination perpetuated by scientists. First Hubble then Hawking and now Penrose but it is a funny thing how data and evidence changes everything and the theory is currently lacking.
I diverged.
Eve is the mother of everyone.
She had daughters not recorded in the Bible.
The Bible is intended for salvation and not a history. The New Testament is awesome since it points to our Savior which is why we celebrate Christmas! after living a very long time; it would be possible.
I don’t qualify myself as a scholar but I am very comfortable with the Bible and believe ALL of it.
The Bible is not intended as a total history of creation. There is enough there to qualify the Big Bang” as vapid and just an imagination perpetuated by scientists. First Hubble then Hawking and now Penrose but it is a funny thing how data and evidence changes everything and the theory is currently lacking.
I diverged.
Eve is the mother of everyone.
She had daughters not recorded in the Bible.
The Bible is intended for salvation and not a history. The New Testament is awesome since it points to our Savior which is why we celebrate Christmas! after living a very long time; it would be possible.
Question 1:
Cain was worried that anyone might want to get revenge for Abel, his brother since Cain murdered him.
So to answer your question: anyone from anywhere that wanted justice for Abel and that knew this happened might want to take his life as he took his brother’s life. But God had compassion on Cain as far as not allowing anyone to kill him.
13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. 15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Cain was worried that anyone might want to get revenge for Abel, his brother since Cain murdered him.
So to answer your question: anyone from anywhere that wanted justice for Abel and that knew this happened might want to take his life as he took his brother’s life. But God had compassion on Cain as far as not allowing anyone to kill him.
13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. 15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
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PatientlyWaiting25 · 46-50, F
I have wondered about this too, it's my belief that God created other people at or shortly after the same time that Adam and Eve were created.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@PatientlyWaiting25 Or it could be that they simply committed incest. Cain married his sister. It is not the only time the Bible speaks of incest. Abram married Sari his half sister. Issac married his cousin. It is widely suspected that Canaan was the product of Noah's wife having drunken sex with her son Ham. Lot had sex with both his daughters and they had sons as a result of that sex.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
The Bible doesn't list every child Adam and Eve had. Were children born to them in the Garden? We don't know. The Bible doesn't say. What it does say is that Eve is the mother of all.
peterlee · M
@in10RjFox In the paradigm of Newtonian Physics that may seem a valid question.
But the current theory of the Universe is that it started with a point. There was an explosion and the space-time continuum expanded after that. This is known as The Big Bang. . The implication is that like space, time had a starting point. This is the view of the present paradigm of Quantum Electrodynamics and the General Theory of relativity. So in this view point, that is a non question.
But the current theory of the Universe is that it started with a point. There was an explosion and the space-time continuum expanded after that. This is known as The Big Bang. . The implication is that like space, time had a starting point. This is the view of the present paradigm of Quantum Electrodynamics and the General Theory of relativity. So in this view point, that is a non question.
@peterlee There are certain eternal philosophies that can never be resolved and shall remain unresolved forever. Any theory is just an assumption to create a concrete foundation (pls note my word concrete) to bury all arguments and interpretations of the past, so as to make the future generations to construct from that foundation and not dig the past again.
Big bang is one such stupid theory and assumption to make belive the new generation and it looks like you are part of that generation. But we all know that something has to be there to explode and any formation after is only a reformation.
So, GOD was invented by these group of people to create such a concrete layer and basement, to build further theories. And they were also taught not to question GOD. And that's when another group started creating fictional characters of gods and established god in such a way so the children grow with these beliefs which form as a concrete foundation in their mind, so they never question or interpret when they grow up. And thus we see many develop as fanatics.
Big bang is one such stupid theory and assumption to make belive the new generation and it looks like you are part of that generation. But we all know that something has to be there to explode and any formation after is only a reformation.
So, GOD was invented by these group of people to create such a concrete layer and basement, to build further theories. And they were also taught not to question GOD. And that's when another group started creating fictional characters of gods and established god in such a way so the children grow with these beliefs which form as a concrete foundation in their mind, so they never question or interpret when they grow up. And thus we see many develop as fanatics.