If Adam and Eve came first and then Cain and Abel, where did Cain's wife come from?

Question

I'd say it would have to be his sister!

Answer 1

Read the events that lead to adam and eve induging... Decide for yourselves whose fault was it!


If Adam and eve did not exist... there would not have been any human beings! The first of the species of human beings the revered Adam and Eve were the first to surface on Mother Earth as human beings. Their direct ancestors being the ape family!

Now Adam and Eve came onto this Earth. They had both to act as a family. Both were son and daughter of God. That made them brother and sister. How come they could have fathered children?

In the initial stages of development of human life... nothing existed which we could have called as society or community. It was a raw savage world. As per the theory of Charles Darwin, "it was the time for survival of the fittest". It was the time to do and die.

Words like ethics and morality did not exist for even words did not exist during those times. The Lipi (written form of communication) was developed at a much later stage in time.

Even a brother and sister relationship did not exist at that time. There were only two human beings who had surfaced on Mother Earth. They had to copulate and produce children. They did not do it intentionally. They never knew anything about it.

It was that it happened. They did it and something was born. At that moment of time they would have been extremely surprised not knowing what to do about it. Eventually they would have realized it was one of them.

They reared that child and with passage of time another child was born. This time it was a female child. As this small family progressed further... this male and female child copulated at the appropriate time. And the whole family started to grow.

Now there were two families. With passage of time many more families came into existence. Until this point of time there was nothing like morality and ethics that played any role. For the sake of their survival and progeny these families kept on multiplying.

This was the only way to keep intruders at bay. They had to protect themselves from the wild beings roaming Mother Earth.

Ever since the Revelations of God came into existence... the human being who had invoked these words of God realized that the system had to be ordered at some stage. And some system of morality and ethics came into being.

As of today... the copulation by the children of Adam and Eve was a sin but at that time it was not a sin for the relationship of brother and sister never existed in those times.

The development of relationships in human life came at a very later the stage. It was only possible when the community would have developed into a massive strength. Population somewhere in thousands would have prompted the wise and the elders of those times to separate out into distinct families.

We need to understand that whatever is truth today may not hold tomorrow. In a scientific developing world the values whether they are ethical, moral or otherwise keep changing.

We also need to understand that during the times of Mahabharata... the battle was fought using swords, horses and elephants. But now the warfare consists of atomic bombs, missiles and chemical warfare. More on adam and eve here- http://www.godrealized.com/dharma_definition.html

Answer 2

I've read the story many times, and it doesn't say there weren't any other people. It just says that God made those two, and put them in a garden, and then kicked them out into the world we live in. It also says that all of their descendents (except for Noah and his little family) died out. We are from Noah. Noah traced his paternal lineage back 10 generations, to the garden, but that leaves about a trillion other possible ancestors. You do the math. Our DNA contains much more than Adam and Eves, much much more. Their children, Cain and Seth, bred into Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens have been here for a long time. A lot longer than this bloodline. Also, that bloodline has been lost for over 2,000 years. It's gone. End of story. oh yeah, I almost forgot; If we all descended from Adam/Eve, why aren't their still Adam/Eves?

Answer 3

Adam and Eve had many other children besides the three named in scripture (Cain, Abel and Seth). The Jewish historian Josephus (who lived at the same time as Jesus) records the tradition that Adam and Eve had over 600 children in their 930 years together.

As there was only one family in existence at the time, they would have had to have married sisters. Intermarriage within a family was a common practice throughout much of the Old Testament time. Abraham's wife Sarah appears to have been a half-sister or step-sister. Issac was married to a first cousin, etc.

The genetic consequences of such marriages were not understood at the time. And it was not until the Commandments was given to Moses (about 500 years after Abraham) that the first laws were given against such marriages. So they occured often out of necessity and ignorance. Once God revealed that such marriaged were wrong, the Jews abandoned the custom of interfamily marriage.

Answer 4

I'd say you're right. Its so strange that people can't seem to grasp the concept that Adam and Eve had daughters at the time. The Bible doesn't give specifics as to a date that Cain killed Abel. They could have had many sisters by that time.

Answer 5

Cain knew Eve.

Answer 6

MANKIND ADAM
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Most have read when Cain talked with Abel and in the field killed him.
Gen.4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
God then cursed and drove Cain out, and Cain said.
Gen.4:14 Behold, 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.
WHO IS CAIN WORRIED ABOUT?
Gen.4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
WHERE DID CAIN FIND A WIFE?
The answer is in the Hebrew text of (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).
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MANKIND
Gen.1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The word “man” (Gen.1:26) in the Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ), with no article means “MANKIND”, transliterated is (adam).
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ADAM
Gen.2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The word “man” (Gen.2:7) in the Hebrew text looks like this ( את־האדם ), with article and particle means “THIS SAME MAN ADAM”, transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).
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On the sixth day God created or made MANKIND.
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On the eighth day God formed THIS SAME MAN ADAM.
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Answer 7

Anytime I really sit down & study the bible I find discremencies. I guess I think too much. I don't know. I've always wondered about things like this question myself. Seems there must have been a lot of inbreeding to me.

Answer 8

That has been a question for those of the logic and intelligence group for centuries. To have asked that at some different times could have gotten you boiled in oil. The faithful fanatics say that it is one of god's miracles - I learned that in my catholic school days - but no one has answered that question well yet.

Answer 9

From among the daughters of the sons of man

Answer 10

Don’t forget the sheep around the corner!

Of course you are perfectly right to ask this rational question.
Unfortunately the Bible has very little to do with ratio!