Gen 4:16 Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Beetow said:

Debates relative to Cain's wife are as common as covid masks all 'round the sphere
of Christian forums; but what I'd like to know is: Whence did the guys below
get theirs?

• Gen 4:18-19 . . . Enoch was the father of Irad. Irad was the father of Mehujael.
Mehujael was the father of Methushael. Methushael was the father of Lamech--
Lamech married two women.

That's a total of at least five women about whom I know extremely little.
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When was the first time man urinated? The Bible is silent on that issue. Are we to infer from silence that Adam never urinated?

The Bible is silent as to whether Adam and Eve birthed children between the births of Abel and Seth. To infer that Adam and Eve had no children between the births of Abel and Seth simply because the Bible is silent suggests one thing: Adam and Eve birthed a baby girl after Seth that grew old enough for her to become Cain's wife. It is the only scripturally sound explanation. To suggest that a pre-Adamic race existed from whom Cain got his wife corrupts the word of God completely.

Cain's wife is NOT the topic of this thread; rather, the wives of Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech.

From whence did those men find their women?

Thank You.
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JerryfromMass said:

It is the only scripturally sound explanation. To suggest that a pre-Adamic race existed from whom Cain got his wife corrupts the word of God completely.

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Does not. Makes perfect sense.

Beetow said:

Cain's wife is NOT the topic of this thread; rather, the wives of Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech.
From whence did those men find their women?
Thank You.

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Gen 4:16 Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Gen 4:17 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Gen 4:18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
Gen 4:19 And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Gen 4:20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
Gen 4:21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
Gen 4:22 Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Gen 4:23 Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
Gen 4:24 If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.”

These women were all from the land of Nod, east of Eden (most likely what would become Sumeria or Sumer).

Beetow said:

Cain's wife is NOT the topic of this thread; rather, the wives of Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech.

From whence did those men find their women?

Thank You.
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If you believe that silence in the Bible is proof of something not having taken place, you obviously feel free adding your own unreasonable hypothesis, like adding a pre-Adamic race to the mix, or an alien race descended, or in whichever unreasonable direction you care to go.

The fact that specific women are not given a prominent role in genealogies, as evidenced by the genealogy in Genesis, and the geneaologies of Mary and Joseph (except for Eve, Rahab, Ruth, Tamar, Uriah'wife, Mary), and that women generally are not mentioned in geneaoligies, only means there are women we don't know much or anything about, i.e., Cain's wife and the wives of Enoch, Irac, etc. The fact God's word says HE created Adam and then Eve from Adam, and says nothing of creating another man or pre-Adamic race of men separate and apart from Adam and Eve, indicates that all the wives of all the men in Genesis came from one bloodline, namely: the bloodline of Adam and Eve.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the blood-line created by God in Adam and Eve was not yet the corrupted line it is today, but rather it was the closest to pure that it ever was. People were living longer than 900 years and producing babies. The weathering process (the solar effects on humans) and the atmospheric conditions generally were not like we know today.

Therefore, it is only reasonable to conclude that Adam and Eve had lots of baby girls that grew into women/wives for their brothers and their nephews, and their cousins, etc. And when those brothers, nephews, cousins, etc, took their blood relatives as wives, they too produced baby girls who would grow up to become women/wives for men in their own bloodlines.

It's error to infer a pre-Adamic race when scripture clearly says that God created two to be fruitful and multiply, Adam and Eve.

JerryfromMass said:

It's error to infer a pre-Adamic race when scripture clearly says that God created two to be fruitful and multiply, Adam and Eve.

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But scripture does not teach that.
God created human beings in his image - male and female - in Genesis 1
Then God rested
After God rested God formed Adam (and Eve) and set them apart in a garden
The narrative of events in Genesis 2 is different to that of chapter 1
Adam and Eve is a genealogical creation to establish the coming of our God and Saviour.

Downunder said:

After God rested God formed Adam (and Eve) and set them apart in a garden

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God created Adam and Eve on the 6th day, and then, after God created all that HE created, HE rested. You've got your sequence of out of order.

JerryfromMass said:

God created Adam and Eve on the 6th day, and then, after God created all that HE created, HE rested. You've got your sequence of out of order.

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Read and learn
on the 6th period of time God created male and female and told them to be fruitful and to multiply
on the 7th period of time God rested from all his works
then God formed Adam from the dust - he was not created as in Genesis 1 - different Hebrew words are used
also read Genesis 2 for the sequence of creation events are different to Genesis 1
and also no daughters or other sons were born to Eve before Seth.

JerryfromMass said:

God created Adam and Eve on the 6th day, and then, after God created all that HE created, HE rested. You've got your sequence of out of order.

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I suppose you are going to preach evolution as the means by which all the many diverse types of people today came about - everybody evolved from the 8 survivors of the Flood.
so in 4,000 years 8 people become a multitude of racial types on every continent??
I think not.

Downunder said:

I suppose you are going to preach evolution as the means by which all the many diverse types of people today came about - everybody evolved from the 8 survivors of the Flood.
so in 4,000 years 8 people become a multitude of racial types on every continent??
I think not.

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Yes, the flood destroyed everyone save Noah, Noah's wife and Noah's sons and their wives, from whom the entire world was repopulated. How long ago exactly? I don't know, and the Bible doesn't say.

Downunder said:

Read and learn
on the 6th period of time God created male and female and told them to be fruitful and to multiply
on the 7th period of time God rested from all his works
then God formed Adam from the dust - he was not created as in Genesis 1 - different Hebrew words are used
also read Genesis 2 for the sequence of creation events are different to Genesis 1
and also no daughters or other sons were born to Eve before Seth.

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It's YOM, and YOM means day. YOM does not mean a period of time other than a DAY.

God created man and woman as told in Genesis 1. Then we are told how HE created man and woman in Genesis 2.

LEARN TO READ: IT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LEARNING WHAT IS WRITTEN.

May I suggest that incest wasn't a bad thing way back when.

Abraham and Sarah were married contrary to Lev 18:9 and Lev 20:17 yet their
union's progeny produced some of the most important men who ever lived, e.g.
Isaac, Jacob, David, and ultimately Jesus.

The thing is: incest wasn't officially banned till the covenant that Moses' people
agreed upon with God. That covenant wasn't codified till after the days of Enoch,
Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech.

Well; according to Deut 5:2-4 and Gal 3:17, the covenant isn't retroactive. So then
prior to the Flood, and quite a few years after it, people were at liberty to marry
and produce children with whomsoever they desired; even their nearest of kin, viz:
Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech likely hooked up with their cousins.

NOTE: All human life today descends from Noah and his three sons (Gen 9:18-19).
That being the case, then the children of Noah's three sons had to intermarry with
each other, i.e. cousins with cousins.
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Beetow said:

May I suggest that incest wasn't a bad thing way back when.

Abraham and Sarah were married contrary to Lev 18:9 and Lev 20:17 yet their
union's progeny produced some of the most important men who ever lived, e.g.
Isaac, Jacob, David, and ultimately Jesus.

The thing is: incest wasn't officially banned till the covenant that Moses' people
agreed upon with God. That covenant wasn't codified till after the days of Enoch,
Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech.

Well; according to Deut 5:2-4 and Gal 3:17, the covenant isn't retroactive. So then
prior to the Flood, and quite a few years after it, people were at liberty to marry
and produce children with whomsoever they desired; even their nearest of kin, viz:
Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, and Lamech likely hooked up with their cousins.

NOTE: All human life today descends from Noah and his three sons (Gen 9:18-19).
That being the case, then the children of Noah's three sons had to intermarry with
each other, i.e. cousins with cousins.
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Amen brother. In the vast majority of cases of incest, close kin produce genetically deformed or malformed offspring, many of whom die at a very young age. But, interestingly, ever so infrequently a perfectly healthy and intelligent baby is born. Very rare. However, even today (since very recent anyway) most of the royal weddings in Europe have been of 3rd or 4th or 5th cousins twice removed. Not all, but most. Keeping it in the family, as it were.

PROBLEM you cannot get all the diverse peoples of the six populated continents from just Noah and his family.
Where does God preach human evolution in scripture?

LEARN TO READ: IT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LEARNING WHAT IS WRITTEN.

Downunder said:

PROBLEM you cannot get all the diverse peoples of the six populated continents from just Noah and his family.
Where does God preach human evolution in scripture?

LEARN TO READ: IT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO LEARNING WHAT IS WRITTEN.

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God's word is crystal clear and is all I need to know that Noah and his three sons were the only humans that remained on the earth after the flood. Therefore, the only reasonable inference to draw is that the earth was repopulated by the family of Noah. Only a heretic would require a different set of circumstances to fit into their heretical outcome.

So, I see you require a different set of circumstances to fit into your outcome. How unfortunate for you.

JerryfromMass said:

God's word is crystal clear and is all I need to know that Noah and his three sons were the only humans that remained on the earth after the flood. Therefore, the only reasonable inference to draw is that the earth was repopulated by the family of Noah. Only a heretic would require a different set of circumstances to fit into their heretical outcome.
So, I see you require a different set of circumstances to fit into your outcome. How unfortunate for you.

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See you are stumped because because you know that human evolution is not Biblical.
Instead of being thoughtful about the problem of how do we get all the different people of the world from just 8 people in some 4,000 years - you just blog an ad hominem attack and slander the faith of the other debater.
Answer the question - where in scripture does God teach of human evolution?
How do you get from 8 Semites to all the various human races/types in the world today in 4,000 years??
Give me the scriptures on this please.

Downunder said:

See you are stumped because because you know that human evolution is not Biblical.
Instead of being thoughtful about the problem of how do we get all the different people of the world from just 8 people in some 4,000 years - you just blog an ad hominem attack and slander the faith of the other debater.
Answer the question - where in scripture does God teach of human evolution?
How do you get from 8 Semites to all the various human races/types in the world today in 4,000 years??
Give me the scriptures on this please.

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Do the math yourself. Keep in mind they lived tp be 600-900 years old.

JerryfromMass said:

all I need to know that Noah and his three sons were the only humans that remained on the earth after the flood.

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Really!! If this were so then there would be no children born after the flood.
There were also four women on the Ark as well. They are included in the Biblical narrative as well.