2006-11-19 10:50:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't mean to question it. I just want to understand it.
2006-11-19 10:56:06 · update #1
She came from the next valley, I think it was called the Valley of Vosgo.
Don't make the mistake of thinking Adam and Eve and their kids were the only ones around. When God was making Adam and Eve, he was over in the next valley making Mick and Irma and their kids, and not long after he was in another area making Jess and Bess and their kids.
The Bible only talks about Adam and Eve cause they are the ones whence proceeded the line that involved Abraham and his ilk.
Abraham had wives and concubines and lived to a ripe old age. Then came Isaac who was rather large and half blind, and recognized people by feeling their faces.
Anything else you want to know?
2006-11-19 10:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
although i have not studied it for myself . ( shame on me ) , the final idea in talking to Pastors is that Adam stands for adult adult males, and Eve stands for females people . The backyard condition talks about Adam ( a guy ) and Eve ( a lady ) , singular . not because there have been not others . in case you study on you'll see Cain, after he killed Abel went to the land of Nod and positioned a spouse there . Cain also pronounced that ' any body that sees the mark on him might want to recognize he killed someone ' . So it mentions others . Incest is a sin to God, so why might want to He set up incest ? besides the undeniable fact that, in previous testomony cases, it replaced into okay to marry your first Cousin . Edit : Stotlerd , Gen. 4:a million And Adam knew Eve his spouse and he or she conceived and bare Cain .
2016-11-29 07:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's either Adamic (which would mean his sister or niece and so on) or non-Adamic (the people in the first chapter of the book of Genesis).
The way Genesis stated it, it seems to be that he found a woman when he wander around Earth. Since he was expelled from his own community, the woman seems to be non-Adamic.
2006-11-19 11:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had three sons named in the Bible: Cain, Abel, and Seth.
The Bible (early chapters of Genesis) also says that Adam had "sons and daughters") before he died.
And the Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus said that Adam and Eve had 33 sons and 23 daughters.
So Cain's wife was a daughter of Adam and Eve.
No, it was not considered incest AT THAT PERIOD OF TIME. Later, when God declared it was incest, then it was incest.
2006-11-19 11:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had three named sons... Cain Abel and Seth... Genesis also says they had 'other sons and daughters'
they had OTHER sons and daughters In Genesis 5:4 a statement sums up the life of Adam and Eve—‘And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.’
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/cains_wife.asp
2006-11-19 10:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cain's wife was his sister.Mankind was, at first, only two people, Adam and Eve. They had three children whose names we know: Cain, Abel, and Seth. But in Genesis 5:4 we read,
"And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. "
We're not told how many children Adam and Eve had altogether, but they certainly had plenty of time to raise a very large family.
Adam and Eve were created perfect in every way. Their children would also, no doubt, be born physically and genetically perfect. Therefore, Cain's wife could be one of his sisters with no problems. Likewise, many of Adam and Eve's children would have inter-married with no problems. "None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. " (Leviticus 18:6).
God does not condone near-relative marriages. Had God's command to Israel been given to Adam and Eve, and they and their children all obeyed it, mankind would have quickly died out. God, therefore, had to temporarily allow intra-family marriages to increase his earthly family. By the time of the flood severe genetic weaknesses had likely set in, making close-kin marriages impractical, so after the flood God reduced the life span of mankind to seventy years. This would prevent another population explosion of the pre-flood magnitude. (Mathematicians have calculated a billion people may have died in the flood.)
One might wonder why genetic weaknesses set in. It's obvious Cain didn't care about God's law, else he would not have murdered his brother (Genesis 4:8; Exodus 20:13). If he disobeyed God in this matter, he likely disobeyed God in matters of diet (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14), and ate whatever pleased him.
2006-11-19 11:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From one of the monkeys, or the hybrid between monkeys and angels?? LOL!!
Seriously, according to Genesis Chap 5 Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters. So, obviously Cain got his wife from one of his sisters or nephews. At, that time humans were still "near the perfected" state, so incest did not have adverse genetic effects.
2006-11-19 10:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
adam and eve had alot of children not mentioned ,they also lived over 900 yrs old,poligamey was legal back then.
2006-11-19 11:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve had two sons later she had a son named Seth she had many other children and back then you would marry your family
2006-11-19 10:54:37 · answer #9 · answered by Luke 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered that question also. I'll be waiting anxiously for the answers to come pouring in.
2006-11-19 10:52:24 · answer #10 · answered by Brooke 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋