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Subject: who did cain marry? |
Bible Note: Tim: I agree with all you have written here. I know you are already clear on the subject. However, I address the following remarks to you so that I will not need to address them to someone who, having already made up their mind, conveniently chooses to ignore both Scripture and reason. In regard to the original question, may I add: It is error to say that since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, that God may not add or even change in one era what He had given in another. Also, the law did not exist before it was given. And it wasn't given until it was given, which was 100s of years after Adam and Eve and Cain and Mrs. Cain. Let everyone consider this: God had the authority to add or even change in one era what He had given in another. What God revealed as binding in one period may be rescinded in another, not by man but by God Himself. There are but few basic principles of Bible interpretation. What follows is one of those principles. "Recognize the progress of revelation. Remember that the Bible was not handed down all at once as a complete book but that it came from God through many different writers over a period of about 1,600 years. This means that in the progress of revealing His message to man, God may add or even change in one era what He had given in another. "The New Testament adds much that was not revealed in the Old. Furthermore, what God revealed as binding in one period may be rescinded in another (as the prohibition of eating pork, once binding on God's people, has been lifted today, 1 Tim 4:3). This is most important; otherwise, the Bible would contain apparently unresolvable contradictions (as Matt 10:5-7 compared with 28:18-20)" (pp. 1959-1960, Ryrie Study Bible, Moody, 1976, 1978). |