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Post by LANL on Sept 27, 2005 8:38:49 GMT -5
This may be in the wrong section (please move if in appropriate)........
But as I was reading the thread "God said it is not good that man should be alone?"
I wondered, in the beginning with Adam and Eve being the 1st married couple and they bore sons Cain and Abel and the sons took up wives....
So who did Cain and Abel marry?
Did they marry their sisters?
or Where there other people on Earth besides Adam?
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Post by GiantsDODie ns on Sept 27, 2005 9:25:06 GMT -5
yes they married their sisters.
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Post by Beck on Sept 27, 2005 9:50:46 GMT -5
This may be in the wrong section (please move if in appropriate)........ But as I was reading the thread "God said it is not good that man should be alone?" I wondered, in the beginning with Adam and Eve being the 1st married couple and they bore sons Cain and Abel and the sons took up wives.... So who did Cain and Abel marry? Did they marry their sisters? or Where there other people on Earth besides Adam? yeah scripture doesnt go into detail about the "other children or other people" . It leaves us to speculate. |
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Post by lanl ns on Sept 27, 2005 9:51:15 GMT -5
God created the foundations of family on the Earth through incest?
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Post by lanl ns on Sept 27, 2005 9:54:13 GMT -5
This may be in the wrong section (please move if in appropriate)........ But as I was reading the thread "God said it is not good that man should be alone?" I wondered, in the beginning with Adam and Eve being the 1st married couple and they bore sons Cain and Abel and the sons took up wives.... So who did Cain and Abel marry? Did they marry their sisters? or Where there other people on Earth besides Adam? yeah scripture doesnt go into detail about the "other children or other people" . It leaves us to speculate. So who was God talking to in Gen 1 when he said be fruitful and multiply? What did that male and female multiply? Do we speculate or do we not read with proper "Reading Comprehensive" skills? **** This is not about the destruction of the Pre Adamic Race either ***** |
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Post by lanl ns on Sept 27, 2005 10:08:44 GMT -5
I find it interesting that the only time daughters were mentioned in the genealogy of Adam was after Seth was born:
Genesis 5
1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
There is no mentioning of daughters being born to Adam or Eve but only until Seth was born....
I maybe wrong..........just asking that's all
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 27, 2005 10:10:23 GMT -5
you may be wrong about what?
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Post by lanl ns on Sept 27, 2005 10:16:11 GMT -5
I maybe wrong about a daughter (s) being born to Adam and Eve........
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Post by Beck on Sept 27, 2005 10:19:24 GMT -5
I maybe wrong about a daughter (s) being born to Adam and Eve........ well maybe they had relations with eve...who knows...  |
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Post by Nikkol on Sept 27, 2005 10:28:16 GMT -5
Let's remember that when dealing with geneology, esp. in the OT, everything is based on the man. Therefore, it isn't surprising that women weren't mentioned beforehand.
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Sept 27, 2005 10:34:45 GMT -5
I maybe wrong about a daughter (s) being born to Adam and Eve........ well maybe they had relations with eve...who knows... sigh....he just cannot enjoy a good thread! |
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Post by Beck on Sept 27, 2005 10:41:01 GMT -5
Let's remember that when dealing with geneology, esp. in the OT, everything is based on the man. Therefore, it isn't surprising that women weren't mentioned beforehand. Could you post the geneology? that never crossed my mind. |
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Post by MsKayLander on Sept 27, 2005 10:54:20 GMT -5
Some food for thought....
Many people immediately reject the conclusion that Adam and Eve's sons and daughters married each other by appealing to the law against brother-sister intermarriage. Some say that you cannot marry your relation. Actually, if you don't marry your relation, you don't marry a human! A wife is related to her husband even before they marry because all people are descendants of Adam and Eve -- all are of "one blood." The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18-20). Provided marriage was one man to one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 and 2), there was no disobedience to God's law originally when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.
Remember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.
Adam and Eve did not have accumulated genetic mistakes. When the first two people were created, they were physically perfect. Everything God made was "very good" (Genesis 1:31), so their genes were perfect -- no mistakes! But, when sin entered the world (because of Adam -- Genesis 3:6, Romans 5:12), God cursed the world so that the perfect creation then began to degenerate, that is, suffer death and decay (Romans 8:22). Over thousands of years, this degeneration has produced all sorts of genetic mistakes in living things.
Cain was in the first generation of children ever born. He (as well as his brothers and sisters) would have have received virtually no imperfect genes from Adam or Eve, since the effects of sin and the Curse would have been minimal to start with (it takes time for these copying errors to accumulate). In that situation, brother and sister could have married with God's approval, without any potential to produce deformed offspring.
By the time of Moses (a few thousand years later), degenerative mistakes would have built up in the human race to such an extent that it was necessary for God to forbid brother-sister (and close relative) marriage (Leviticus 18-20).[12] (Also, there were plenty of people on the earth by then, and there was no reason for close relations to marry.)
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Post by lanl ns on Sept 27, 2005 11:30:19 GMT -5
In genealogy their is a mentioning of a daughter; Genesis 4 chapter does mention the sister of Tubal Cain which was the grandson of Cain.
Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah. What I find interesting is the the scripture gives her distinct direct relationship as SISTER and not as wife / wives, or wife material as she is called SISTER.......
When we go on to read the Bible clearly state: Lamech took two wives....... not that Lamech marries his two sisters, etc.......
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Post by GiantsDODie on Sept 28, 2005 7:44:22 GMT -5
People.. Its really simple. God started the entire human race with two people. Adam And Eve. He did not create other women for Cain. Adam and Eve had more sons and daughters. Cain married one of his sisters.
There was no incest until God made included incest as a sin in the law with Moses.
Now as abhorrent as that might be to us in this day, that is the way it got started.
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