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Old 03-09-2011, 07:34 AM
 
Location: Oregon
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An interesting problem.

The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve were the original parents of the whole human race.

If you recall, their first born son, Cain, killed his brother Abel.

Following this he was expelled from the family and traveled east. He eventually married and founded a city which he called Enoch after his first born son.

Question: Where did he find a wife? Were there multiple first parents?
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Old 03-09-2011, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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That's the great thing about myths. You can just make stuff up and it doesn't have to make sense. Then you can use the myth to subjugate/dehumanize other people that aren't the same color as you and still feel moral about it.
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Old 03-09-2011, 09:06 AM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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I remember the first time I heard this ~ 40+ years ago.
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Old 03-09-2011, 09:09 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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Where did Cain find a wife?



There was another god doin' some creating a few counties over, Cain payed them a visit.
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Old 03-09-2011, 10:44 AM
 
Location: Reno, NV
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Incest, perhaps?
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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I remember the first time I heard this ~ 40+ years ago.
QUESTION:

Did you ever get an answer? Or not?
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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Incest, perhaps?
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Not likely. Recall Cain was exiled from his family and went to another land.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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An interesting problem.

The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve were the original parents of the whole human race.

If you recall, their first born son, Cain, killed his brother Abel.

Following this he was expelled from the family and traveled east. He eventually married and founded a city which he called Enoch after his first born son.

Question: Where did he find a wife? Were there multiple first parents?

Detail details............Like I have always said, the writers really needed a proofreader, although look at their readers at the time. Sad people are STILL glossing over the details.
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Old 03-09-2011, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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QUESTION:

Did you ever get an answer? Or not?
ANSWER:

Oh, I got answers. There are many apologetic ministeries that have written articles on this subject for years. Satisfactory answers? Not many, and none of any substance from YEC sources. Most have been centered around early man not having produced enough generations necessary to develope mutations, so as not to chance expressions of recessive genes or some such bio-babble, to warrant a ban of incest. Also seen some pretty interesting hermeneutical gymnastics though. Such as A&E not referring to the first humans but rather the first of the Hebrew people.

http://www.icr.org/article/cains-wif...y-does-matter/

http://www.reasons.org/human-origins...ng-wife-cain-0

http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/res...el=placeinhist

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Old 03-09-2011, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Are you loosing much sleep over this??? or simply trying to pick a fight?
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