Cain's Wife (Genesis 4)

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by n david

I just don't see any evidence of this in the Bible. If what you claim is true, it's incredible that God and the Bible are silent about the first creation after the first chapter. It's also odd that God would base the entire narrative and story of redemption around the second creation and not the first. The woman is named Eve because she is the mother of all living. But you say she's not.

Sin came by Adam and Eve's disobedience through eating the fruit, yet you're claiming there was a prior creation. This first creation was not in the garden, which causes more questions and puts more doubt in scripture.

I just cannot agree with a two creation account and believe it is the same account written in two different ways. The first a synopsis of each day; the second a detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve.

Hmm. I find it incredible the Bible would describe the same event twice in such a way that the two accounts cannot be reconciled due to the very different order of events. I dont however think it is incredible that Bible doesn't detail histories that aren't really germane to the story of the Bible, which is about God and His Messiah. I mean, why isn't the history of China or Polynesia detailed in the Bible? Well, probably because the Bible isn't a story about everything that happened to everyone everywhere at all times? But is about God creating everything and then it narrows the story to Adam, down to Noah, down to Shem, down to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the nation of Israel (notice the ten tribes pretty much drop out of the narrative once they are deported, the story narrows down to Judah), and then the Messiah, who was the end goal and focal point of the whole thing.

Eve is the mother of all living. But you don't take that literally, you restrict it to "all living descendants of Adam". She is not the mother of cats, dogs, or cattle, after all. In other words, we both understand it the same way, the difference is I can clearly see there are people mentioned in Scripture NOT descended from Adam.

As for whether any of those other people are still around, or whether they all eventually intermarried into Adam's posterity, or were wiped out at some point, is a different subject.

Sin came by Adam's disobedience, but what does that have to do with other people not descended from him? I don't see any kind of logical connection between the two ideas.