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1 | ... | 1 Cor 15:45 | EdB | 61916 | ||
Elice Fox Elice the text you appended is absolutely right. You have found yourself in a middle of a little joking around. At times some of the old hands of the forum get frisky and append things that are inside jokes. This happens to be one. This forum has been open about a year and half and without fail about once very 2 weeks someone comes in and asks the question where did Cain get his wife. We have had all kinds of answers from aliens to demoniac races created before Adam. Time and time again we admonish new users to use the search feature before asking a question to see it the subject their interested in may have already been discussed. If so, possibly their question is answered or they themselves may have a line of thought not yet explored. However without fail we still get this questions and at times the forum is monopolized by people supplying answers. I truth all we really know is what the Bible tells us and from that we would have to conclude Cain’s wife had to be a descendant of Adam and Eve therefore a relative of Cain. Thanks for your input and thanks for joining the forum. EdB |
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2 | ... | 1 Cor 15:45 | CDBJ | 61919 | ||
Hi EdB, you know if people would look at this question of Cain and who he married from a numerical stand point I think it is pretty obvious that he married one of his own relatives. I had 5 kids with my wife by the time I was 32 years old. Now we have Adam, who lived to be if my memory serves me right, for 930 years and with the most perfect woman in the world. Hear we have two of the most perfect people that have ever been husband and wife; I am sure that they had more children then they could count even if they both took off their sandals. I wasn’t even commanded to populate the Earth and look what I started in only 18 years of marriage! If one would start compounding the little feet running around in just the first lets say 500 years it would blow your mind. This is a good one for some of the mathematicians out there. CDBJ |
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3 | ... | 1 Cor 15:45 | EdB | 61923 | ||
CDBJ Actually it has been mathed out. Taking a very conservative number for the number of children in each family and a rather old age of marriage the numbers come out round 500 thousand people that could have been living when Cain took a wife. Taking a more realistic approach the numbers come out to be around 1.5 million or 750 thousand women from which Cain could choose a wife. Taking a liberal approach the numbers could be as high a couple of million living by the time Cain took a wife. I looked for my original material and I can’t lay hold of it but I copied this from Answers To Tough Questions Genesis 5:4 tells us that Adam had sons and daughters. At first, sons and daughters of Adam and Eve had to marry each other to populate the earth. Cain probably married a sister or niece or grand niece. Assuming the accuracy of the Genesis account, and considering the length of lives recorded (around 900 years, on the average), a very sizeable population could have developed very rapidly. Using conservative guesses as to the size of families and average age, there easily could have been several million people living at the time of the death of Cain. Moreover, the Scriptures nowhere indicate at what points in the life of Cain he murdered his brother, married his wife, or built his city. Even a few hundred years might have passed before all of the events took place, allowing for a sizable population with which to build a city. McDowell, J. (1993). Answers to tough questions. Originally published: San Bernardino, Calif. : Here's Life Publishers, c1980. Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers. EdB |
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4 | ... | 1 Cor 15:45 | Morant61 | 61941 | ||
Greetings EdB! Excellent observations and comments by friend! Keep up the good work! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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5 | ... | 1 Cor 15:45 | EdB | 61964 | ||
Tim Thanks Tim, there was a lot of hard work involved especially finding out her name was Elisabeth (z's weren't invented yet). Thanks again EdB |
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