Scriptual Questions. Please no hostility! I do rate all!!

Adam and Eve were perfect and had no genetic abnormalities and original sin took time to develop these, therefore until the time of Moses when the law against incest was passed, one could marry one's half sister or half brother and before that one's own family member. Adam and Eve had other children, and Cain married his sister. Girls were usually not mentioned as they were not considered important enough. When the Flood came, all but eight people were wiped out, making the chance of genetic abnormalities easier to develop, so it was only a few generations later that the closest one could marry was a first cousin.

I have a new discussion for you, Are you smarter than a 6000 B.C.E man?

Is it possible that the person who wrote Bible was unaware of the existence of civilisations? Bible speaks about christianity & Hinduism, as per their literature is considered one of the oldest religions. Is it not possible that a liasion happened.. I know its weird proposition but thats how research takes a shape!! I think as somebody said, God must have created other humans as well however they may not have been given importance in the biblical literature. Anyways, I think these were interesting questions & the answers are equally intriguing.

I LOVE this discussion and I love all the responses. But all of the responses and the discussion itself can only lead to one single conclusion. NO ONE KNOWS. It's subjective, like everything else in the bible; open to interpretation. We have to think outside the box which is hard for some people. Personally, I have always believed that the earth was populated by incest. But, since Eve was not in fact, the first woman, it is possible that Cain hooked up with Lilith and produced the other branch of the family tree. But then the sisters and brothers would have had to copulate in order to further branch out.

There are multiple interpretations among many more interpretations on this. One obvious one is possible inbreeding, which may or may not have had any dire consequences for offspring and the descended progeny (of course this could still be left to interpretation, maybe man is limited not just due to the events of expulsion but also the inbreeding). Another interpretation is that more of man was created by God in the interim, not being mentioned clearly in said texts. Other humans may have been around during the time (and one could get into Adam, Eve and Cain compared to other "nameless humans, perhaps ones that were created or evolved through process - again, open to interpretation and analysis). There is also the interpretation that the bible shouldn't be taken word for word literally but as a layout or general guide. Conflicting accounts and statements can be found in religious text but this is also based on who is interpreting the scripts. Also note that mortals (imperfect people) wrote religious texts people live by, analyze, interpret, or reject today. The writers and initial interpreters could have easily gotten the stories wrong and forgot certain parts as it passed through generations. One could use an oral to text basic or extended argument as a comparison/example. I do not have answers here, only theories and interpretation, same as other responders here.

He married his sister. End of discussion. :)

There are so many people who missed to read Genesis 5:4 which states that Adam and Eve begot other sons and daughters and there was no prohibition yet in the marriage between relatives as the then commandments and the other more than 600 commandments of God came after a very long period of time after the lives of Adam, Eve, Cain, etc. and in fact it came long after the great flood in the time of Noah the tenth generation where all people were killed except of course the family of Noah in the ark. Therefore, the wife of Cain came from his own family, the descendants of Adam and Eve.

Expand your mind and imagine. I am not a scripture expert though I graduated from an exclusive girl school founded by nuns - Holy Spirit Academy. Your question was, who is Cain's wife" Do not take the contents of the Bible literally. For its purpose is basicall an introduction how God created the world, that a supernatural being made us. The scripture made mention only Adam and Eve, however, I don't think they were the only one who were then living. One must think that Adam represents man and Eve as woman. Basically, the writer of the Bible is symbolic and possibility is God created many Adams and Eves, but the focus was pointed into only one Adam and one Eve. If the writer would tackle the lives of other Adams and Eves, there will be confusion and the real message in the scripture will be forgotten. Like a story, there has to be only one subject to avoid confusion, from that subject, expand it and make some twists out of it and at the end, there will only be one conclusion. Who is Cain's wife when he had only a brother Abel" You had mentioned that God made Cain a mark so that no one would kill him is an implication that there are other human beings on earth at those times. But the focus of Genesis is where the root of Jesus came from.

That's a question I've been wondering about on and off since forever. Taking into consideration that incest was considered improper, we have to assume that there was others as well. But I cannot remember any clear evidence from the Bible to support this.

Hi meeandnotyou, Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve weren't the only people on the face of this earth. They were the ones who had received 'the breath of life' or rather, the ones whom God saw as His. We know that people have existed on this earth generations before the writings of the history in the Bible. We know through examination that man, in some form or another has roamed the face of the earth for billions of years. The age of the Bible and those times only goes back a small percentage of those years. (There is an explaination for that too). When God created Adam, He didn't create just one. He created "Them". The same as Eve. He called 'them' Eve. Symbolically, those whom recognized the existence of God and who He was. Cain married a woman from 'the east of Eden'. That says itself that other people existed. They just didn't live in Eden, where God had 'jurisdiction', so to speak. Adam and Eve were the first people that received 'the breath of God' and who were Holy. It's plain that other towns and cities as well as other people existed. They just didn't believe in 'God'. While that doesn't really answer the questions about who these people were, it kinda gives you an idea of what the Bible really says. It's all right there, but you have to take what you know as fact, which is a bit of science and add it to what the Bible says, continuing to go back and forth between scripture to see what it means. The dictionary helps too. For instance, Lucifer, the devil.....did you know that he (Lucifer) was God's most beloved angel. He was the most beautiful angel God made. But because when God made man, (He made the angels before He made man), God told the angels they were to minister unto man, Lucifer rebelled against God and told God there was no way he was going to bow down to man. Man should bow to him. God told Lucifer that because he would not obey Him, he was to cast from heaven to be where he could be King of the earth. Along with Lucifer, 1/3 of the angels in heaven, those who followed and worshipped Lucifer for his strength and beauty, would be cast out of heaven with him. Those 'bad' angels are among us, trying to keep us from the truth and will of God, and trying to lead us into damnation. It's all in the Bible. It's hard to see for many reasons. #1, If we aren't looking for it we will miss it. We can read a scripture a thousand times and get something different from it each time, depending on where we are at the time we read it. #2, Lucifer doesn't want us to understand it at all, therefore he confuses the Word and confuses our minds when we try to understand what the Word of God says. If you go back and read from beginning to end, verse for verse, over and over again, and look for key words, you will understand what I'm saying. You will see the words 'them' and other words that will take you on a whole new quest for understanding. Be prepared though. I'm sure you will end up with a thousand more questions as good as the ones you asked here.

There are a couple of things here, that must be considered if this is to be a relevant discussion. Remember that the bible was written thousands of years ago by men who never attended school. These Mythical Stories were handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years before they were finally written down on a clay tablet. Some say, Well, yes!, but, this is God's word so its got to be true. Well Ok, if that's correct, why has God never given us an update? Am I wrong to expect an updated version? (Sure the Christian Church updates the bible every few years but those guys diddle little boys too) I'm talking GOD'S Word here. Is this to much to expect from the Guy who created us Humans in his own Likeness and Image? So My Point is, Lets get some Facts Straight, before we get too involved with the Nitty-Gritty. Seems to me this discussion is like banging your Head against the wall.Feels so good when you Stop!

If you read your really ancient history, you will find that the story of Adam and Eve did not originate with the writers of the Bible. Rather it was an ancient pagan story probably of Babylonian origion or maybe even earlier. Its not a christian story. It is part of the Torah which is a historical record of a people struggling with their transition from paganism to Monotheism. It is very unlikely that when mankind evolved into the first true "human" that there was just one man and one woman, an Adam and an Eve. There were most likely many "first humans". So Cain did not marry his sister. You cannot have it both ways. Either you believe in evolution and the world is millions of years old and mankind took awhile to evolve to what he is today and at some point G'd said ok your done and the soul was allowed to take shape within to differentiate us from the other animals. Or, the world is only a few thousand years old as the Bible seems to say and there was only Adam and Eve and Cain married his sister. Unfortunately, science has more than proved otherwise so all the ostriches need to take their heads out of the sand and accept the Bible for what it is: a history of the Jews growing from paganism to Monotheism.

for the first question............................... they were not the only one's created by God,Adam and Eve were only the first creation but there was more.they were all thrown out of the garden of Eden after Eve ate the forbidden fruit.and those people were the one's Cain was worried. for the second question............................. same answer as the first one.the books that linked to confirmation of that was not yet found until now.that is the reason it makes it look that there is only Adam and Eve were the only creation that God made. as you may see there is a lot of books that were still not found to complete the whole bible's story.but nevertheless,the real purpose of the bible is still intact up to this day and it is the salvation of human soul and the proof that there is really a God.

Man...Please. Bible is not a historical book, although there are many historical traces. Be blessed...

I know this can be confusing that God only mentions Adam and eve and their family in the begining but he did make more people he just didn't mention it. Also Adam and eve did have more kids. I read some where in the old testament that Cain married his sister in the begining. Back then there was no law against marring family. Like at Jacob he married in the family line. It was many years later that people stopped marring their family members.