Cain's Wife (Genesis 4)

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Originally Posted by Esaias

Well, it's evening somewhere... lol

Mankind was created on the sixth day, but Adam was created after the first Sabbath. The creation accounts in ch 1 and ch2 of Genesis are different, presenting a clearly different and contrary account in each chapter, and therefore cannot be reconciled as two descriptions of the same event, nor is either account clearly symbolic or mythological. Therefore, they each describe a different series of events.

Cain was worried about strangers killing him because he was a nomad. He married and had a son and built a city. Building a city implies other people. His mark implies other people. The two creation accounts imply other people. Therefore, I conclude there were other people.

The primary objection people have is either theological, or philosophical. The theological objection is based on the erroneous belief that sin is a substance inhering in physical human nature, inherited by natural procreation. To avoid the obvious conclusion that Jesus was a born sinner, either Immaculate Conception or Divine Flesh is invoked, both of which are errors. The objection claims that anyone not descended from Adam would be born free of sin and not needing salvation. The objection wholly disappears when the voluntary nature of sin is accepted, as per the Bible, and the gnostic-catholic doctrine of an inherited sin nature is rejected.

The philosophical argument is based on Enlightenment humanistic egalitarianism, and is thus of no concern to me.

How do the following scriptures fit into your viewpoint?

Gen 2:5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

This implies to me that there was no mankind before Adam.

Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

This implies to me that ALL things (which would include Adam) were created before the sabbath.