whered they come from?

[oldhermit]

God stated He created Adam and Eve after the 7th day. God made man on the 6th day also. And It is more possible that he went to the land, named by people already, and took a wife from people living there in that area...Open up your bible and read it yourself.

This is not what it says. It only says that he went to the land of Nod and that it was there that his wife conceived. It does not say that he found a wife in Nod. The implication of the text is that he was already married when he went to Nod.

"Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch."

The fact is, Adam and Eve could have had dozens of children. We know from Genesis 5:4 that "the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters." Since we are not told in what order these other children were born, it is possible that they could have had daughters even before Cain and Able were born. This is not the only time we find marriage between siblings. Remember, Abraham married his half sister and this was about 2000 years after the time of Cain and Able. Since Gen. 3:20 calls Eve the "mother of all living," we know that all human life issued from her.

 

[oldhermit]

Well it said he went to the land of nod. And thats up east .from where they were.

Cain was cursed, and in no way shape or form would some one marked by God at that time be sleeping with his sisters or anyone from a family whom he murdered their brother..

Also, Cain is not listen in Adams Genealogy . so you can even make the claim that he was not even Adam's son. because he is Not in his genealogy .

God stated He created Adam and Eve after the 7th day. God made man on the 6th day also. And It is more possible that he went to the land, named by people already, and took a wife from people living there in that area...

Open up your bible and read it yourself.

Perhaps you should take your own advise. You are making way too many assumptions.

 

[homwardbound]

I know this position might sound weak, because it has pretty much ran it's course with non-believers, that they naturally would counter with the argument that it is "mindless" or "naive".

But I think it's a good argument that we can use to ourselves as believers...

Here's the opinion:

"If it was important, God would have told us."

Or, maybe He does with the Holy Spirit to some people.
I can't make that claim for myself, I have no decided theory where they came from.

But I entertain all possibilities, that He
Might have created them later and seperately and it just didn't get recorded.
Or "Adam" might refer to the first falling single man of an already multiplied "Adam" of mankind.
Or that they married their sisters out of an initial necessity, which later was designated as taboo.
Or who knows.

For me, it's some unknown seed I found laying around, planted, just letting nature take care of it's germination, with no idea whether or when it will ever sprout or what it will grow into, grass, a bush, a tree, etc.

I can say this with confidence though, all names in the bible have meanings that are crucial to understanding the story, and in this case, we are not even given her name, so it "doesn't matter" but would be "awesome to know"

I see the only true importance was to follow the lineage all the way to Christ, being our savior. That is what I am shown.