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1 | Did Cain marry one of his sisters? | Eph 5:25 | tessie | 165581 | ||
The direct question, as you call it, is nearly always a bogus question, meant to infer that the Bible has unanswerable loopholes. I'm surprised if you haven't seen that in your dealings with the many non-believers. In addition, the answer would make no real difference to anyone in the end, the only outcome being that either he married his sister, which thing many find quite shocking and distasteful, or he married someone else's sister (relative) and in that case, Adam and Eve would not have been the only humans on earth, would they? In other words, the question is almost always meant to entangle the answerer in a morass of supposition and thereby avoid the question which would be far more healthy for the asker, which being, what is your status with God? |
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2 | Did Cain marry one of his sisters? | Eph 5:25 | tessie | 165408 | ||
It is your opinion that it was a legitimate question and mine that it is one that is unanswerable and often used to distract from the status of the questioner's stand before the Lord, as in "Answer me this" followed either by a well-rehearsed answer of their own devising, or by the often unspoken "and I'll consider that you know something I don't and might just listen to the other things you have to say about God and my relationship to Him." The first verse of Ps 131 doesn't mention pride at all, so to say it refers to it is again an opinion of interpretation. To me, it simply and clearly speaks of the fact that there are mysteries God has not chosen to share with us and it is really pointless to exercise ourselves in "great matters" or "high things"(which in my opinion are things that are not explained by Scripture or the Holy Spirit). Having said all that, however, I'd like to reiterate that I meant no offense, that I spoke out of what I believe to be a legitimate urging by the Spirit. I apologize to the writer if any offense was taken. Yet, I would still encourage him/her to question the reason for the question. |
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