Why does Cain (Adam's son) and his offspring (sons and daughters) not merit (deserve, own, have) a place in the great genealogy?
2006-10-12 11:26:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Because the geneology of all of Adam's children/descendants, except for those of his son Seth, were wiped out during Noah's flood. Noah was from Seth's line, so his is the only one that survives today. We are all descendants of Seth.
2006-10-12 11:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by Chris C 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Look in Genesis chapter 4 and 5 and you will see Cain is not in Adam's genealogy. Cain is not a descendant of Adam. Look at verse 1 John 3:12 an you will see who his father is.
2006-10-12 14:14:14 · answer #2 · answered by peewee5001 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve had others sons and daughters other than Cain and Able. They were probably too many to list. Remember that people before the flood used to live close to 1000 years, so probably Adam and Eve had at least a couple of hundred kids!
2006-10-12 11:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ Karen ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cain was NOT Adam`s son at all …
However, Cain & Abel were twins
They both shared the same mother - Eve - but had two different fathers (genes) –
God in Adam and Satan in the Beast (Serpent)
Cain was the son of Satan via the Serpent (beast) and his children are still with us today
Abel (murdered) - Seth was the son of God via Adam and his offspring is also still with us today.
Cain was the fruits of an adulterous act, and because of the curse placed on that (the fall), God had called enmity between the serpent`s seed and His own Seed.
Jealousy caused Cain to slay his brother Abel.
We see that same nature of Cain (Satan) all around us everyday in the form of Wars, Murders, adultery etc.
Satan is the father of all darkness and filth and confusion and troubles ... and his children will reflect just that …
God is Purity and Righteousness and peace and His children will be by nature, part of it…
Both son`s went their different ways, married their sisters (there were no other people) and started to multiply.
Against God`s law of separation, the two different species started to intermarry (the sons of God – Seth`s children - looked upon the daughters of men – Cain`s children – and took for themselves wives…).
At the tower of Babel, God finally separated all people by confusing them with different languages ….
Cain`s offspring will return where they came from - Hell
and so will the offspring of God also return back to their origin = Heaven
The two different spirits - God and Satan - will see to that ...
Where do you fit in .... ever ask yourself ???
2006-10-15 19:38:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think partly because he murdered his own brother as well as because he did not understand that to please god, he must give the best of everything he had as sacrifice. Abel always brought god the choicest sacrifices and the best of everything he had, but Cain just brought god whatever, and that was why god favored Abel over Cain. After Cain murdered Abel, he was cast out and cursed to live for all eternity. Any who killed him would be punished with ten times the death. He was cursed, so the Canaanites would not have been accepted as gods chosen or even to procreate and marry into the chosen bloodline.
2006-10-12 11:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by jennybeanses 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the beginning up theory, you could wisely assume that it became in the homicide of his brother, Gen.4:11-12. yet besides the undeniable fact that, the different characters in the family members tree had their very own flaws as properly. Dr. Barnhouse spoke of that it became in the offering that Cain introduced forward. It became no longer in basic terms rejected - Gen.4:5 (a lesser of an offering), besides the undeniable fact that it became additionally a cursed one (Gen.3:17). Failure to renowned a blood sacrifce can even have indicated Cain's loss of repentance for his strikes.
2016-12-26 17:46:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He killed his own brother. The Great Geneology proceeds from Seth; Adam and Eve's other son.
2006-10-12 11:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by Babs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I may be an Atheist, but just because I don't believe in a god, doesn't mean I think religion is boring. I think of religions as 'adult fairy tales'.
I can't remember WHERE I read it, but supposedly, Adam's first wife was Lilith. She left him because he would not treat her as an equal and god banished her from eden. Cain later left eden and had MANY 'children' with Lilith. She gave birth to many nightmarish beasts, i.e. the behemoth, the leviathan, etc.
2006-10-13 02:58:53 · answer #8 · answered by MigukInUJB 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a murderer and back then that sort of stuff was frowned on, unlike today where barking idiots like Charles Manson and Scott Peterson and those stupid Menendez brothers get all kinds of love mail and marriage proposals from sad little women. Back in Bible times, people like that were excluded from the goods, as it should be.
2006-10-12 11:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
b/c Cain killed Able cuz Able wasn't able to live. He had committed an ultimate sin and was not forgiven his offspring were followed by his mistake.
2006-10-13 03:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by funkymunky04020 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋