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NASB | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
Subject: Did Cain marry one of his sisters? |
Bible Note: Hi Magellan, I apologise for seeming disrespectful, but the truth is, the Bible makes no mention of any humans being in the world except Adam, Eve, and their descendants. If you wish to speculate on others being there, ok, sure, but one speculation is as good as the next. Although, thinking about it, the Little People would probibly produce something opposite of the Nephilim, so that may not be the best example. "And there were shrunken people on the earth in those days..." - Not! What Hebrew text or translation can you cite that actually and explicitly states there were no other children born to Adam and Eve prior to Seth? I would suggest to you that particularly in Hebrew writings, the order of events is not always clearly protrayed in the order of writing. More commonly, the more important events are given first, even when other events which are recorded later actually happened earlier. But nonetheless, I look for specific statements in Scripture. If it's a matter of filling in the blanks, well, we could fill them in in different ways. So I just don't find your argument compelling, and it goes against the idea that mankind was corrupted by one man's, Adam's, sin. How did Adam pass his sin to all men if there were others who were not his descendants? There is a direct Biblical Explanation for where all people came from. God created Adam, from Adam made Eve, and told them to fill the world with people. But I think Acts 17:26 is the most clear in saying that all of mankind came from a common physical source, from Adam. Love in Christ, Mark |