if cain is only the 4th person on earth - who is he so afraid of, how does he go to the neighboring town of Nod and find a wife, I'm starting to think that a literal translation of the creation story is defective and maybe there is some meaning that we are missing. any thoughts?
2007-10-15 12:58:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. We have no idea as to how much time passed between Cain's birth and when this occurred. People lived to be 800 to 900 years old then so Cain could have had many, many brothers, sisters, and nieces and nephews by the time this happened.
2007-10-15 13:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
*** w77 12/a million pp. 707-708 Cain and His spouse *** ALL Bible readers are acquainted with the very shown fact that Cain become the 1st guy to be born in the worldwide. He become the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, whom God had created at present.—Gen. 4:a million. God informed Eve, despite the fact that, that she would carry approximately little ones.—Gen. 3:sixteen. Abel become the 2nd boy born. (Gen. 4:2) The Scriptures are very short and condensed in this early account, yet they grant all that we ought to comprehend. (Gen. 4:3, 4) We be conscious additionally that as quickly as Seth, the third named son, become born, his mom Eve considered him as a alternative for Abel. (Gen. 4:25) Adam become one hundred thirty years previous on the time of Seth’s delivery. which means there would desire to nicely have been numerous different little ones of Adam by ability of that element, which contain daughters. The Bible’s silence as to the names of Adam’s daughters provides no concern, because of the fact the delivery of daughters become not often suggested and that they have got been in uncomplicated terms sometimes named interior the genealogical lists. however the Bible does fairly let us know, in its precis of Adam’s life, that “he became father to little little ones.”—Gen. 5:4, 5. there have been no different races of humankind—no relatives of people predating guy, or having a separate beginning, as some have conjectured in attempting to respond to the question with regard to the beginning of Cain’s spouse. The fact of Adam and the call Eve itself avert this. For the Bible says: “After this [after God’s passing of sentence] Adam noted as his spouse’s call Eve [meaning “residing”], because of the fact she had to become the mummy of all and sundry residing.”—Gen. 3:20. The inevitable end is, then, that Cain married one in each of his sister
2016-12-29 12:05:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve likely had hundreds of childrens who had children of their own. After all, Adam lived to be 930 yrs old.
2007-10-15 13:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God told cain he would a fugitive and men would want to kill him for the sin he comitted,sin,s do not go unpaid.
2007-10-15 13:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe he should have been a pair of ragged claws...
I've always wondered that myself. Maybe Cain was the father of all who suffer from paranoia.
2007-10-15 13:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no one knows if Cain was the 4th person. he left with his wife (his sister). there were many borthers and sister's before him.
2007-10-15 13:00:52 · answer #6 · answered by Ms. Lady 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feel bad for Eve's vagina...hundreds of children? I don't think that's possible, even if she did lived to be 1000.
2007-10-15 13:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by Daisy Indigo 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋