Ministers I have heard never gave an answer to that question and was irritated that it was asked because they don't have an answer going by the theologies that were passed down throughout the centuries, except one and I feel his theology is flawed. He taught God created other humans besides Adam and Eve. 20 minutes into each of the videos he begins to explain.
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Now pastor Murray is a good teacher but his theology is concerning the creation of a few male and females is flawed because Genesis 3:20 tells us Eve is the Mother of all living, so how could she be the mother of all living if God created other people.
I am an old Earth believer, I believe the Earth is as old as science indicate if not older.... I believe Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of Life and had a form of immortality before they sinned as indicated in Genesis 3:22..... I believe before Adam and Eve sinned they had many, many, many children. And those children had children and so on and migrated to other areas of the lands..... I believe it was the fruit of the Tree of Life that healed any damage that would have been done from what is now considered inbreeding..... I believe the Bible from Cain and Abel is written about what happened after Adam and Eve sinned throughout the generations and prophesied what will happen in generations to come until the return of the Lord.... I believe it has been just over 6 to 10,000 years since the sin of Adam and Eve and not the age of the Earth.
But either way there were people here who God told not to kill Cain and Cain feared those people, so either Eve is not the mother of all living or Cain and Abel were not her first born.
And God did put a curse on Eve when he told her she would have pain and sorrow in her giving birth from that time forward Genesis 3:16.
To each their own way of belief but those who believe in the 6000 year creation could not explain where those people come from, considering Cain and Abel were the first two and the only two mentioned until the birth of Seth and from Seth lineage down to Methuselah.
Cain's wife was a relative, as all of mankind is related, in fact every Creed, nationality, race if you so choose are all brothers and sisters even if you look at it scientifically. Men's shortcomings, greed, need for power and control, differences of thought, and mutation cause separations. In my belief Cains wife lived in the Land of Nod. And the Land of Nod had a name, did it have a name, who gave it that name. Lands were often named after the founder of occupied area.
