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The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve had many children, not just two [Cain and Abel]. ‘The days of Adam after his fathering Seth [another son] came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.’ (Gen. 5:4) With that information, from where would you say that Cain got his wife? Yes, he must have married one of his sisters or nieces. Today this might be dangerous for any children born to such closely related parents. But near the beginning of human history, when mankind was so much closer to perfection, it was not a problem.

2006-08-06 07:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Frax 4 · 0 0

Often, apparent inconsistencies can be resolved if we just look at the context. Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?

Where did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?

Yes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.

Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.


The solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces.

At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.

It is probable that, while yet alive, Abel had sisters; the record mentions the birth of daughters to his parents, but their names are not recorded. (Ge 5:1-4)

Cain went into banishment in “the land of Fugitiveness to the east of Eden,” taking with him his wife, an anonymous daughter of Adam and Eve. (Ge 4:16, 17; compare 5:4, also the much later example of Abraham’s marriage to his half sister Sarah, Ge 20:12.)

2006-08-06 09:14:59 · answer #2 · answered by BJ 7 · 0 0

Adam was age 130 in the year Seth was born to be in the genealogy of Jesus.
Cain killed Abel the same year, a quarter of a million people coul have come to be, as
with 70 people went into Egypt and 215 years later they were half a million. So the wife of cain was a relative, but most like a stranger.

2006-08-06 07:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by jeni 7 · 0 0

Genesis says that Adam and Eve were the only two people in the Garden of Eden, not the only two living souls on the planet.

2006-08-06 07:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

Someone from the 6th day creation!

Most xhristians do not read nor understand.

Gen1 tell you of the 6th day creation of man (adam)
Gen2 tells you of the 7th day and on the 8th (2000 years [at least]) "THE Adam" is created.

2006-08-06 07:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0 0

Adam and Eve have been long till now the regulation and have been different from us in many techniques. they did not have the regulation to tell them what sin grew to become into the bible teachs that with out regulation there is not any sin. regardless of if with out regulation there grew to become into no enhance to grow to be extra like God. So on the same time as Adam and Eve ate of the tree of Knowlege of sturdy and evil it grew to become into there first transgression against God as that grew to become into disobedience to God all of this grew to become into an occasion of the regulation that grew to become into to return. Now understand that even inspite of the incontrovertible fact that the transgression grew to become right into a undesirable factor it had a powerful result as they did aqure knowlege and later could aquire the regulation and could be much less like the animals and extra like God. Now additionally understand that Adam and the human beings of that day lived nicely over 9 hundred years for this reason the weded little ones grandchildren and super grand little ones etc must be extremely distant kin. none the less the place there is not any regulation there grew to become into no sin and those human beings weren't comparable to you and that i. Now God gave guy the regulation not because of fact guy ought to stay as much because it yet to instruct him that he ought to not. The bible teachs all have sinned and fallen wanting the honor of God and the wages of sin is dying. yet God understanding this provided a fashion for his human beings by ability of coming to the worldwide as a guy and overcoming sin and dieing as an atonement for all who huge-unfold it. each and each of those steps have been a progression of guy. the guy befor the regulation the guy below the regulation and the guy who lives below grace. the subsequent progression of guy would be while he's granted a clean perfected physique. God is the same immediately the former day and tommorow yet mans realtionship wiht god variations and guy himself variations.

2016-11-04 00:20:55 · answer #6 · answered by fleitman 4 · 0 0

Cane didn't marry as gay marriage wasn;t allowed then.

He just shagged his brother Abel !

2006-08-06 07:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew H 3 · 0 0

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2006-08-06 07:28:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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