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Subject: Cain and Seth's wives descended from who

Bible Note: Scott,
Without conceding the point you are attempting to make, allow me also to take another approach on the question you raised about some commentataries dealing with the Cain and his wife because of the issue of incest. That was what prompted my initial response. You handled the question, which I believe the bible does not raise, by proposing polygenism. You said:

"Now that we know that man was created a living creature and there were more then just one man and one woman created lets look at Cain and his wife...."

Do we know that there was more than one man and woman created? No! In fact Genesis states clearly that Eve was "the mother of all the living." ( Gen 3:20) Meaning that all are decended from her. The bible also states that Adam and Eve "had others sons and daughters." Gen 5:4) The bible state that Cain took a woman as his wife. (Gen 4:17) The implication based on direct scriptural statements is not that other pairs were created with Adam and Eve, but rather that Cain took to wife another female decendent of Adam and Eve. That could have been a sister or a neice or even a further degree od consanguinity depended on when Cain married and when the other children of Adam and Eve were born. If a neice or further removed relation the union was not prohibited by Lv 18:6-18. Hence no incest as defined by the Law presented in Exodus or Leviticus.

And consider the fact that Adam and Eve while in the garden did not obey the command to "be fruitfull and multiply," but obeyed that command only after they were expelled from the garden.
Kind of turns the stupid notion that original sin was somehow related to sex between a man and his wife on it's head doesn't it? More likely the other way around it would seem. The sin may have been the refusal to be fruitful and mutiply. Trying to have the garden all to themselves like selfish children. But I am not advocating that theory. It is just an interesting tangental thought to ponder.

My main point is one Adam and one New Adam!

Romans 5:15-17
15: But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
16: And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification.
17: If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 15:45-49
45: Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46: But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47: The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48: As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
49: Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

One Adam, one New Adam, Jesus Christ!

Emmaus

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