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841 | Who were the people in the land of Nod? | Gen 4:16 | Hank | 76049 | ||
This is a spin-off of the ages old question about who Cain's wife was. The only deduction one can logically make, given the rather scant information in Genesis, is that the people who dwelt upon the earth in Cain's time and who dwell upon it in our time are all descendents of the two people whom God created, Adam and Eve. --Hank | ||||||
842 | Did God create wives for Cain and Abel? | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 5562 | ||
Please go to Search at the top left of the home page, type in "Cain" and you will be able to read a large number of entries on this subject. --Hank | ||||||
843 | Where did Cains wife come from | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 6878 | ||
Edge, since you are new to the Study Bible Forum you may not be familiar with the Search feature found on the top left of the home page. Please type in "Cain" and you will be shown a number of postings that relate to your question. The short answer is that the Scriptures never tell us specifically who Cain married. We can infer that she was a descendent of Adam and Eve and thus a relative of Cain, possibly sister or niece. A warm welcome to the forum. --Hank | ||||||
844 | Where did Cains wife come from? | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 32616 | ||
Where did Cain's wife come from? Was she his sister? The Biblical answer: THERE IS NONE GIVEN! All anyone on this forum or off it knows about Cain's wife is given in the first 14 words of Genesis 4:17: "Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch..." Anything said beyond that is, you may be abundantly assured, purely speculation. --Hank | ||||||
845 | wheredid cain's wife comefromGenesis4:17 | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 80708 | ||
Please read your scriptural reference again, i.e., Gen. 4:17. Then you will know as much about the origin of Cain's wife as anyone on the face of the earth! [This question has been posed on this forum umpteen times. Please use Search, but I assure you, you won't learn anything more than what Gen. 4:17 says on the subject.] --Hank | ||||||
846 | offspring of Adam and Eve | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 107039 | ||
Nowhere does Scripture offer even a hint that God created any other human beings besides Adam and Eve. The entire human race has its origin in Adam and Eve who reproducted "after their kind" and so did their progeny. I thought Aniset gave you a sensible answer to your other question, so I won't attempt to garnish it any further. --Hank | ||||||
847 | Where did Cain's wife come from? | Gen 4:17 | Hank | 180925 | ||
Dear User - Your question ranks first in the FAQ category! Please use search and type in Cain. A brief answer to your question is that the opening chapters of Genesis make it clear that God created Adam and Eve who became the progenitors of all mankind. I like your user screen name. --Hank | ||||||
848 | offspring of Adam and Eve | Gen 5:4 | Hank | 66952 | ||
The opening chapters of Genesis reveal this: that God created Adam, and from a rib of Adam, formed Eve. He told them to be fruitful and multiply; in other words, have babies. They did. We don't know whether Eve gave birth to three sons (as you assume) or thirty, or even more. Neither do we know how many daughters there were in the first family. We do know that Adam lived to be 930 years old (Gen.5:5), and that he "begat sons and daughters" (Gen.5:4). Proscription of incest came much later in time. Whereas the Bible produces no evidence whatever that God created any human beings but Adam and Eve, and whereas He commanded them to multiply and fill the earth, we therefore have no reason not to draw the inference that the descendents of Adam married one another and produced families. There is not other viable explanation available of how the human race was able to reproduce itself "after its kind." Given the extremely long life span of Adam, it is mathematically possible that there were literally thousands of his descendents walking the earth by the time he died. Your question, by the way, is a variant of "Who was Cain's wife?" -- a question that has been asked on the forum many times and answered in various ways, some of them sensibly and others less so. The fact is, whether we're disposed to accept it or not, that the Bible does not always provide line-and-rule, detailed answers to all our questions. Even if it did, it's unlikely that we are equipped to understand them fully. For example, the Bible in Gen. 1:1 says this: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The traditional Jewish and Christian belief has always been that this verse declares that God created these heavens and this earth "ex nihilo" -- a Latin term meaning "from nothing." Look in the opening verses of Gensis at how many times the phrase "and God said" is used. God, by His might and power, literally spoke things into being. But are you, am I, is anyone prepared to write a thesis setting forth a clear explanation of just how God was able to do this? Scientists and philosophers in their ignorant bewilderment have postulated all sorts of theories, but none of these has ever been proved nor, for that matter, has made much sense. I like the explanation a little girl gave of the "big bang" theory. Said she, "God spoke and bang! there it was!" ..... I'll close with a final observation about the Genesis account of creation and the beginnings of mankind. I see nothing wrong with pondering on the logistics of how the human race began to reproduce, so long as we don't dwell on that and miss the more important account of the fall of man, the genesis of sin, and the plan of redemption that God in His love established even then, even in the long, long ago. Perhaps I'm not disposed to be intellectually curious enough to delve into the question of Cain's wife with full-blown gusto. But I have been possessed with a bump of curiosity sufficiently large enough to lead me to seek God's answer to what I've long considered man's most important question: How can I restore and maintain a right relationship with God? Another way of saying this is, "How can I be saved?" And the Bible gives us a great deal more information on that than it does about Cain's wife! --Hank | ||||||
849 | adam and eve's kids- how many daughters? | Gen 5:4 | Hank | 86808 | ||
Scripture merely says that Adam "had other sons and daughters" after Seth. (See Genesis 5:4). --Hank | ||||||
850 | From Adam and Eve to millions of people | Gen 5:4 | Hank | 119036 | ||
BJKB: These tetra-initial screen names are getting hard to keep track of! Perhaps you'll meet your "cousin" CDBJ, a fine, upstanding fellow with a keen sense of humor who is a valued, long-time contributor to this Forum. And to this Forum I extend you a warm welcome. Had Adam and Eve had no progency but the two boys, Cain and Abel, we wouldn't be around to worry about about how the world ended up with a few billion people. Adam and Eve eventually kicked the bucket, Cain did Abel in, leaving only Cain who died sooner or later, and then all that would be left would be the title for an Agatha Christie mystery, "And Then There Were None." But as Emmaus points out, such was not the case, for the Bible says that Adam had other sons and daughters who got things going, including providing through Adam and Eve's offspring somewhere down the line a wife for Cain. I just thought it time to mention Cain's wife, since the question of who she was has not been asked on the Forum in over a week :-) --Hank | ||||||
851 | Cains Wife | Gen 5:4 | Hank | 160104 | ||
Adam's life spanned 930 years (Gen. 5:5), "and he had sons and daughters" (Gen. 5:4). So by no means were Adam, Eve, and Cain the only persons on earth at the time that Cain acquired a wife. --Hank | ||||||
852 | Were Noah's sons triplets or born sepera | Gen 5:32 | Hank | 178901 | ||
rckeel - Thanks for your question. Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, were not triplets. Japheth was the oldest (Gen. 10:21) and Ham the youngest (Gen. 9:22-24). --Hank | ||||||
853 | THE FLOOD-FACT OR MYTH? | Gen 6:1 | Hank | 114182 | ||
happy happy faith - Before we go any further with your specific question, let's talk about the subject of your seminar, which you say is "Biblical Myths." Please tell us on what grounds you base your assumption that the Bible does in fact contain any myths at all, if that is what you are arguing. Do you believe the Bible is the inerrant revelation of God to man, that it is in fact the inspired word of the living God? If you do, why would you be doing a seminar on biblical myths? Those who truly believe the Bible would not be leading a seminar on biblical myths, I should surmise. True Bible believers would be hard pressed to find in the account of Noah's flood ANY "pressing problems for debate" as you characterize it. I won't attempt to answer your question until you have cleared the decks and stated your beliefs and premises about the accuracy and authenticity of God's word, the Bible. Is it thoroughly reliable or is it a book of mythology? Answer please. --Hank | ||||||
854 | What is referred to as "sons of God"? | Gen 6:2 | Hank | 146405 | ||
alan ::: Your question has been asked more than a dozen times on the Forum, so perhaps it will suffice to instruct you how to access these questions and responses. You will see at the top of your screen adjacent to "Home" the words "Questions/Notes on Verse:" In the box type Gen. 6:2 and click "Go." This will take you, when you scroll down, to more than a dozen entries of this question. Clicking on each of them will open the thread for that question and you will be enabled to view various responses. Continuing in turn through the list will open additional threads and more responses. --Hank | ||||||
855 | why did they live past 120 years? | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 83055 | ||
The strongest probability is that the 120 years did not refer to human lifespan but to the span of time until the Flood. God gave man this time, a grace period in a sense, in which to respond to the clear warning that God's Spirit would not always be patient. This view is corroborated by 1 Peter 3:20. .... You ask, "Does what God said just not mean anything?" It means everything to me, friend. What about you? Take a lesson from this passage. What God said about the Flood didn't mean anything to the people in Noah's time and look what happened to them. If Noah and his family had also thought that what God said didn't mean anything, you wouldn't be here today asking, "Does what God said just not mean anything?" Think about it. --Hank | ||||||
856 | How many yrs was promised to us to live? | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 116598 | ||
A warm hello, escottl: According to Genesis 5:29, Methuselah lived 969 years, making him the oldest person recorded in Scripture. I am not aware of any mention in Scripture of God's decreasing the lifespan to three score, or 60, years; but biblical records suggest that antediluvian folks had longer lifespans than the descendents of Noah's family afterward. Job 14:1 says that "Man, who is born of woman, is short-lived and full of turmoil." But no specfic number of years is mentioned. The Fifth Commandment says, "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you." (Exodus 20:12). Again, no mention of any specific number of days. Genesis 6:3 says, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." But the context leans solidly toward the exegesis that the passage is saying that God would give man 120 years before the judgment of the Flood would fall, and therefore it is highly unlikely that this passage has anything whatever to do with human lifespan. --Hank | ||||||
857 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 133419 | ||
You ask why is the life expectancy of Americans low. Compared to what? The mortality tables list 77.2 years as the average life expectancy for persons living in the United States. By comparison, it is 37.8 in Zimbabwe. There are no mortality tables as such in the Bible, although life spans tended to be remarkably long (by present-day standards) in Old Testament times, especially from creation to Noah's flood. The Bible does not guarantee a given number of years for a person's life on earth. It does, however, promise eternal life to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. See John 3:16. --Hank | ||||||
858 | Who are the "Sons of God" in Gensis 6? | Gen 6:4 | Hank | 71407 | ||
Marianes: To avoid excessive duplication, please research the entries on this topic by using Search. Type in Nephilim or sons of God. --Hank | ||||||
859 | What or who are the Nephilim? | Gen 6:4 | Hank | 182065 | ||
Alexis - Welcome and thanks for your question. There are scores of entries in our archives on the subject of the Nephilim. Please use the search box and type in the key word, which is Nephilim. Additionally, you may find the article at the following link helpful: http://www.gotquestions.org/Nephilim.html --Hank | ||||||
860 | Did Adam have other kids beside Cain Abe | Gen 6:4 | Hank | 209211 | ||
Livingword :: Welcome and thanks for your question. ..... As regarding your first question, Scripture does not say how much time elapsed before Adam and Eve bore Cain and Abel. Scripture does make it clear that Cain and Abel were not the only two children of Adam and Eve (see Genesis 5:4). Finally, the answer to your last question, "where did the rest of the other people come from?" is this: God created only two people, Adam and Eve (see Genesis 2:7-25). All other human beings who have ever lived and all those who are living today are descendents of the one man (Adam) and the one woman (Eve) whom God created. --Hank | ||||||
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