Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
There is no proof that dinosaurs walked the earth before humans were created. This is a fallacy that has been taught in schools by the secular system that rules the education system.
The Bible refers to dinosaurs as "behemoth" in the Old Testament. You can read about this in the book of Job 40:15-24
2007-01-08 18:41:46
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answer #1
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answered by Freedom 7
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Adam and Eve had many other children but this one story deserved telling as it helped to illustrate the way that some humans serve God out of love and others only want to do things their own way. We do not know if Abel had a wife before he was killed, but we do know that Cain went to another land to take a wife. That would indicate that his wife was probably a neice of his as the Bible says that all humans have Eve as their mother and Adam's sin passed to all humans (because he was their father).
As for the dinosaur thing, all living things were not created in one creative period (day) and we have no idea how long each "day" was.
2007-01-09 02:58:33
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answer #2
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answered by Sparkle1 6
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First, in reference to the dinosaur question, try this website. Kent Hovind is absolutely a genius in science and the Bible.
http://www.drdino.com/articles.php
As far as Cain and Abel' s wives are concerned, they would have had to have been their sisters. Understand, this is before genetic mutation, so inbreeding was not an issue. Genesis 5:1-5 tells us that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughter, also.
2 Corinthians 2:9-10 is plain to say that God will reveal His truth to you. Pray and seek Him, and also, ignore other sources that may be in opposition to God. That includes what I'm telling you. God is the final authority on everything, and is the bearer of the only absolute truth. 1 Corinthians 14:33 - "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." God is there, and He's got all the answers.
2007-01-08 23:56:18
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answer #3
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answered by startthisover 3
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First, when God created the heaven and earth he could have created it with age, that is to say he could have made things look older than they were. If this is true the earth could be much younger than it looks. He may have done this as a joke to drive science nuts.
The reason the dinosaurs died was because all their food came from large trees that were destroyed by the flood, the dinosaurs died because of lack of food.
Adam and Eve had sons and daughters of that I am sure. The reason Cain and Abel are talked about is because of the need to show that Adam and Eve's sin nature had been passed on to the next generation. The sin nature is passed down by man and not woman or Mary could not have been the mother of Jesus. Remember that Mary was the mother and the Spirit of God came upon her according to scripture. Don't let the fact upset you that the men married their daughters because God himself allowed it for that time period...Adam and Eve could not have been "fruitful and filled the earth" according to the charge God gave them. Man changed a lot since creation just look at the age of the men in the first book of the Bible. You may not understand it all but that is the way it will be because God's thoughts are not our thoughts because his thoughts are more than we can imagine
BTW it took God 6 days to create thee world and he rested on the 7th day.
The answers I gave you are very basic and it would take more time and effort to complete these thoughts.
2007-01-08 23:38:44
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answer #4
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answered by sirwilliam1st 2
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Not everything was created on the same day. 1000 years to the Lord is a day and a day 1000 years. So man probably wasn't around for dinosaurs. But Job does mention 2 creatures that sound like them.
At the time of Adam and Eve, incest wasn't a problem. People lived almost 1000 years, so the genetics were nearly perfect. So they would have inner-married. This wasn't against the law until the time of Moses, some 1000 or more years later.
2007-01-08 23:27:10
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answer #5
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answered by RB 7
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There are 3 heaven and earth ages, same heaven and earth but different ages.
II Pet.3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
To that earth age the world that then was, belongs all fossils and remains. Scientific estimates or guesses; universe or heavens 20 billion years old, earth 4.6 billion years old, moon 200 to 300 million years younger than earth, dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, Ice Age 2.5 million years ago.
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BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER PERISHED
Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
AND THE EARTH WAS
The word “was” (hayah) in Hebrew, was not distinguished by the Revisers, that is the verb “to be” from “to become”. The same Hebrew word “hayah” is translated “became” in Gen.2:7.
AND THE EARTH BECAME
WITHOUT FORM H8414 tohu (to'-hoo) From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
VOID H922 bohu (bo'-hoo) From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
AND THE EARTH BECAME DESOLATE AND EMPTY
Earth was not created that way but became desolate and empty due to Satan’s rebellion. A global overflowing of water, but not Noah’s deluge. Darkness was upon the (face) of the deep, in other words the whole earth.
Into this we can read; dinosaur extinction, destruction of Atlantis, breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.
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BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW
Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen.1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
About 63 A.D. Peter writes, the heavens and the earth which are now. The heaven and earth age we are in now, today.
BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE
RESERVED UNTO FIRE
AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN
PERDITION G684 apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) From a presumed derivative of G622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Some will perish eternally and not see the third heaven and earth age.
2007-01-08 23:30:05
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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they werent literal 24 hour days.dinosaurs did die before god created adam.adam and eve had many children cain took a sister as wife.
4:17—Where did Cain get his wife? Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.
2007-01-08 23:25:28
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answer #7
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answered by gary d 4
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The Earth was destroyed from the Great Flood of Noah, not an asteroid.
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2007-01-08 23:34:08
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answered by Bridget 3
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These are the exact inaccuracies that allow the bible to disprove itself. It's fine if you want to believe in God and all, but you can already see how a logical mind finds difficulty in swallowing the entire bible as the word of a perfect being.
I'm not saying to not believe what you like, I just think it's good that you look at everything with an objective point of view. Trust in what you know is absolute truth and live well.
2007-01-08 23:26:03
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answered by Anonymous
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The Bible does not specify the length of each of the creative periods. Yet all six of them have ended, it being said with respect to the sixth day (as in the case of each of the preceding five days): “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Ge 1:31) However, this statement is not made regarding the seventh day, on which God proceeded to rest, indicating that it continued. (Ge 2:1-3) Also, more than 4,000 years after the seventh day, or God’s rest day, commenced, Paul indicated that it was still in progress. At Hebrews 4:1-11 he referred to the earlier words of David (Ps 95:7, 8, 11) and to Genesis 2:2 and urged: “Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest.” By the apostle’s time, the seventh day had been continuing for thousands of years and had not yet ended. The Thousand Year Reign of Jesus Christ, who is Scripturally identified as “Lord of the sabbath” (Mt 12:8), is evidently part of the great sabbath, God’s rest day. (Re 20:1-6) This would indicate the passing of thousands of years from the commencement of God’s rest day to its end. The week of days set forth at Genesis 1:3 to 2:3, the last of which is a sabbath, seems to parallel the week into which the Israelites divided their time, observing a sabbath on the seventh day thereof, in keeping with the divine will. (Ex 20:8-11) And, since the seventh day has been continuing for thousands of years, it may reasonably be concluded that each of the six creative periods, or days, was at least thousands of years in length.
That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one “day.” Also indicative of this is Peter’s inspired observation that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thousands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself.
2007-01-08 23:24:16
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answered by papa G 6
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