| Jun 23, 2006 @ 6:54 PM |
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jubilee_sparks
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okay Adam and Eve were the only two people on earth according to the bible, then they had only 2 kids, and one was killed, cain killed abel. so where the blue hell did cains wife come from?
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:14 PM |
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bevrice
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Well, honey, all we can do is speculate. Adam and Eve had more daughters and sons.
If God made a mate for Adam, I feel sure he was able to do the same for all of them.
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:16 PM |
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jubilee_sparks
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you gotta admit it was a good question though
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:19 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Yes, actually they had many children.
Cain was sent out to the land of Nod and found a wife.
Hm, it doesn't say how long that took him either. Or does it?
He probably did marry a family member.
jubilee, if you want there is a thread some where here about this. It will give you alot of info about this.
Hey, welcome ok? Please don't let us scare you out of here.
No question is dumb.
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:48 PM |
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jubilee_sparks
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well ive never really gone along with the Chrisatian way and my spelling blows
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:52 PM |
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sealacamp
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Really now no one knows what happened at that time. The bible, like God/Jesus just has to be taken on faith. The story taken literally in english indicates that there was one man and one woman to begin with, in english. But in hebrew Adam means " The man" in hebrew. As in the statement from Genesis 2:19 " He brought them to Adam (the man) to see what he would call them...
Eve in english is usually rendered some persons name. But in hebrew it means "to give life" So was there really one man and one woman? Were they really named Adam and Eve? Personally I don't know the real answer to that. And further more it is not an important issue. What is important is that God created life from the words of His mouth. I believe that and the details are really unimportant as far as I am concerned. So did one person commit the sin that began the down fall or was it mankind in general? Again I don't know the real answer to that, no one really does. What is importnat is that people fall short of the glory of God and Jeus came to recitfy that situation. Imparting to us what was lost long ago, eternal life. One day God will reveal everything to us until then we either believe in Him or we don't. The rest really is not that important.
After all, God is not the God of the Jews only, is he? Isn't he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is. There is only one God, and there is only one way of being accepted by him. He makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
And that is what I find to be most important.
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 7:54 PM |
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tahoma
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Yes, actually they had many children.
Cain was sent out to the land of Nod and found a wife.
Hm, it doesn't say how long that took him either. Or does it?
He probably did marry a family member
Okay... now I'm totally confused and having never read the bible perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Cain was Adam and Eve's son? And he was sent to the land of Nod to find a wife? Wouldn't that then be his sister? And how did she get to the land of Nod?
Complete confusion
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 8:11 PM |
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jubilee_sparks
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in other words, we are all the product of incest in the long run.
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 8:27 PM |
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kattsmeow
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[QUOTE]From the thread Cain's wife. This is Atone:
CAIN'S WIFE?
Atone74
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This question is often sometimes thought to be among the "hard questions" pertaining to the Bible. Because the Bible does not always address certain questions or issues in black and white, many fault the Bible as being incomplete, inconsequential, or full of mistakes. However, the Bible almost always answers itself somewhere within its pages. The answer to this question really is quite simple, and the obvious answer can be inferred from the text of the Bible in Genesis, Chapters 4-5.
First, let's lay some groundwork. In those days of human history, humans lived to be very old. Most lived between 500 and 1000 years old. Adam lived 930 years and Eve probably lived about the same amount of time. Because they lived as long as they did, they had many other children aside from Cain, Abel and Seth. After all, God had commanded them to "be fruitful and increase in number..." (Genesis 1:28). The Bible even tells us plainly in Genesis 5:4: "(Adam) had other sons and daughters." These other children would have settled in various parts of that region. As there was no one else for them to marry, they had to marry each other to propagate the human race. This intermarriage would have been permissible by God back then since there were no other people on earth.
Now back to the original question: Who was Cain's wife? In Genesis 4:14, after Cain murders Abel, he says to God "whoever finds me will kill me." Obviously, by that time, there were already many other people living on the earth. After he murdered Abel, Cain left and went to live in the land of Nod, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). It appears that it was there that he married a wife--who may have been either a sister or another relative.
There is an unsubstantiated theory that God may have "planted" other people on the earth during this time, for the purpose of populating the earth. Because the Bible makes it clear that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, and are the "seed of Adam" this theory cannot be true. The early books in the Old Testament make a point to trace lineages of whole peoples and races from certain people who were of Adam's bloodline. Furthermore, the Bible is clear that we are all born with Adam's sinful nature that Christ died to redeem us from. (Please refer to Romans 5:12,17 and 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 9:05 PM |
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jubilee_sparks
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ok that was way over my head
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 9:09 PM |
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tahoma
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I agree sparks... which is why I usually avoid these threads... way too heavy for conversation.
You'll rarely see me in the politics forums as well...
Thanks for the explaination Katt... well informed
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 9:16 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Tahoma:Okay... now I'm totally confused and having never read the bible perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Well then,,,,pick one and and start reading my friend. 
Adam and Eve had 2 sons.
Cain and Abel.
Cain killed Abel because Abel because he (Abel) gave only the best to God.
Cain gave the least he could.
So, being that he didn't like that, Cain did the first murder in the Bible.
Cain was 'marked" and sent out into the land of Nod.
Ok, look in Genesis chapter4, verses 1-25 NIV Bible is good for first time readers
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| Jun 23, 2006 @ 10:36 PM |
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Classy_Blonde
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...continued. 
It is while he was in Nod, he married. It's assumed he met his wife in Nod, but we don't know for certain. If Adam and Eve were the beginnings of mankind, Cain married a sister, or a cousin.
Yes, you are right...it was incestual, but there was no disease back then, and over breeding had not yet become a problem.
When it became an issue was when Cain's offspring began defiling God's chosen. 
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| Jun 26, 2006 @ 7:41 PM |
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jamminjerry
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it is rather simple. mankind was created on the 6th day. on the 8th day God created Adam and Eve, the "children of God." as i said, it is very simple, just read the last part of chapt 1 genesis and then continue reading in chapeter 2. any knowledgeable english scholar will tell you that a chapter basically concludes an " idea, a point, a specific, yada yada etc". one begins a "new" chapter by continuing and not necessarily rehashing (unless the author specifies". and so, chapr 2 of Gen is day 8. :o)
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| Jun 28, 2006 @ 8:32 PM |
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nuclearvanilla
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I applaud your post, seals. I will never understand the literal acceptance of any religion when the stories are, IMHO, obviously symbolic and meant to explain abstract ideas. If certain text can be taken as fact, then Jesus himself was a symbolism afficionado, so why can't we be?
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| Jun 30, 2006 @ 10:12 PM |
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jamminjerry
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IT SEEMS THE "SIMANS" HAVE NO REBUTTAL TO MY "THEORY" lol
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| Jun 30, 2006 @ 11:41 PM |
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SunBabe
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Simple "SIMAN" says what theory? 
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| Jul 1, 2006 @ 2:14 AM |
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kattsmeow
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I think he has a lisp... 
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| Jul 2, 2006 @ 8:40 AM |
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doc65270
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well jubilee its like this the bible gives us rules to live by. some agree and some don't.but the bible don't teach anything that is wrong on how to live your life. not to mention that there is a lot of good stories in the bible that is interesting to read. i have read the same story several times and enjoy it evey time i read it. what i did a few years back was i got a niv of the bible it is in more modern day language and sometimes easier to understand what its saying. i would read out of the king james version and if it was something hard to understan i would use the niv bible then i would understand it better. but for the most part the king james bible is easy to understand. get yourself a bible and start going to church i think you might start liking it. doc
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| Jul 4, 2006 @ 1:27 PM |
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Novaguy180
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[ Cain was sent out to the land of Nod and found a wife.
Hm, it doesn't say how long that took him either. Or does it?
He probably did marry a family member.
Ha! Ha! Inbreeds.
No wonder he looks like the guy playing the banjo in the movie Deference.
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