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Originally Posted by Aquila
Why would Cain's decendents be called the "sons of God", seeing they would have been wicked? This is why most assume it has to be the line of righteous Seth.
If these are not fallen angelic beings who are the angels mentioned in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6, and what sin was so terrible it warranted binding them until the Day of Judgment...while allowing Satan and the rest of his fallen angels to roam free until this very day? |
One reason is because when you read what little there is to read about them, they fit the description of (men of renown).
Another reason or point to make is that everyone is quick to point out that Cain was wicked(you even automatically label all his descendants as being wicked, yet the bible mentions no other wickedness until his descendant "Lamech". Other than that it just tells us what masters of every craft they were.), and because of this how can he or his lineage be "the sons of GOD". Yet this is the same GOD who created angels- WHO FELL, Lucifer - WHO FELL, was perfect in all his ways until HE FELL.
The serpent tells Eve, that they would be as gods, knowing both good & evil.
The tree was not a tree of knowledge, but a tree of knowledge of good & evil and was not a physical tree that was planted in the garden, no more than the tree of life was. Adam was told he could eat of every tree that was OF THE GARDEN. If you read in Genesis, it tells us about the trees that were OF THE GARDEN, and then tells us that the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil were also in the garden. JESUS says "I am the VINE and ye are the branches". We read things like "fruits of the spirit" are told we are to bear fruit. The first response from GOD to Adam was "WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED" then "Have you eaten from the tree".
GOD put HIS attributes in a spiritual being(for GOD was not flesh, these bodies are to contact this earth with,not HIM "HE saw that there was no man to till the soil"), took that spiritual being(Adam) and placed it in an earthly body, divided the attributes of that spiritual being, created a second body from part of the first and placed half those attributes in that second body. When GOD said Adam, HE was speaking to both halves, just as we are each one member of a MANY MEMBERED BODY(spiritual) OF CHRIST.
Whoever it was that first said "we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience knew what he or she was talking about.
"who told you that you were naked", naked isn't "having no clothes on" naked is convincing them that they were the body, and not the spiritual being inside clothed in flesh. Prior to that Adam first looked and saw through the flesh body at the spiritual being inside and said "she is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh" he recognized himself. AND CALLED HER WOMAN. It wasn't until afterwards when they believed they were the body that he called her Eve. But you will not find GOD ever addressing her by that name.
I believe the reason for the short lineage list for Cain is because it ends at the flood. That is except for descendants who had mixed with the descendants of man (which would be Seth's children).
When we read the descendants of Adam, the lineage starts with Seth. Why not Cain?