Forgive me in advance if this seems dumb, but me and a few friends having a discussion last night came across the following questions and being new christians I would like to ask here so perhaps I can help them and myself understand.
If the only people created were Adam and Eve, who did Cain marry?
if there were other people around, who made them?
if there were other people not from Adam and Eve were they without sin, they did not eat from the tree?
if there were other people how could they inheret original sin and pass it on not being of Adam or Eve?
does this mean the details of Genesis are incomplete, are parts missing?
Thank you for your time, itās dumb I know but this is confusing to me.
If the only people created were Adam and Eve, who did Cain marry? If Adam and Eve had one child every two years, in 100 years there would be 50 children. One would assume that they started with a greater amount of genetic variability than we see today.
if there were other people around, who made them? No others. Sin inherited from Adam and Eve.
if there were other people not from Adam and Eve were they without sin, they did not eat from the tree? No others.
if there were other people how could they inheret original sin and pass it on not being of Adam or Eve? No others.
does this mean the details of Genesis are incomplete, are parts missing? There is much more we would all like to know, but what we have is sufficient to show us our fallen state and need for a Savior.
Note the biblical inguntion against marrying a close relative did not happen untill Moses.
Abraham married his half sister.
May I suggest that you start following either Answersingenesis or Creation.com
What ever you nay think about young earth organisatiobs you have to recognise that they are committed to the Authority and absolute Accuracy of the bible.
As we have pointed out, there was nothing āsickā about it, because laws against brother-sister intermarriage were not introduced until the time of Moses. Before then, there were few genetic defects (mutations) that today make it inadvisable for close relatives to marry. For example, Abraham was able, both biologically and morally, to marry his half-sister Sarah (and their descendants are the Jewish/Hebrew people ā see Y-chromosomes confirm Genesis teaching about Abraham), which would not be the case today.
I will definitely check those links out, and I have zero issue with the scientific, 7 of Gods days could be trillions of our years, God is beyond our reckoning of space and time.
as far as the intermarriage that is the only logical conclusion if there were no other people.
thank you for your time and response
I would hope not (regarding mutations), and I am sure being so close to the first gene pool of āmade in his imageā. there was no bad dna to cause any issues
thanks for the input
Donāt be afraid to ask these questionsātheyāre not dumb at all! I think others have pretty much covered it, but you may find this article helpful on the question of who did Cain marry:
Obviously, he married his sister. Godās Word only mentions Cain and Abel instead of other children Adam and Eve had, because they are the heads of the two genealogies in chapters 4 and 5, the āgoodā one from Seth (replacing Abel) and the ābadā one from Cain, that mixed in marriages to pollute the whole human race except for Noahās family (chapter 6).
2 through 4. There were no other people around until Adam and Eve had many children.
5. The Bibleās history is not modern history, though it is historically correct. It is compressed, ancient history that presents only the details that show truths that we can learn from. After all, prophets (Israelās preachers) wrote the Old Testament, while apostles (the churchās preachers) and those who knew them wrote the New Testament. I hope this post helps you and your friends.
Thank you, and I am sure it will, we have discussions and debates every night while we excercise and pass time yet, being the oldest of the four of us and having more experience, they ask me things I have no idea about, I am 33, one is 20, another 24 and the last 31, we are all trying our best to expand our walk with Christ
yet, being the oldest of the four of us and having more experience, they ask me things I have no idea about, I am 33, one is 20, another 24 and the last 31, we are all trying our best to expand our walk with Christ