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Cain is Gettin' Hitched
So I read an article the other day
right, and it brought to my attention something I did not know. Did you know it’s
a great debate where Cain, brother and killer of Able, got his wife? Did you
know that Atheist use it to take potshots at the Bible? I didn’t, but now I
do, and I wanted to let you know what this article taught me… So let’s go back
to Genesis!
Genesis 4:17 ‘Cain lay with his wife...’
Woah, woah, woah, Wife?! Where did she come from? Did God make wives for Adam’s sons? Well that is one of the theories, maybe God made other people! That is simple problem solved…but wait…
Acts
17:26 says, “From one man (Adam) He made all nations…”
'No one is to approach any
close relative to have sexual relations...’v6
So is God contradicting Himself? Does
this mean we all have genetic mutations? Well actually yes and no! We all do
have genetic mutations. According to the article I read, which I will post the
link at the bottom, we all have over 100 different mutations in us. Another
article I saw put the number at about 60 mutations on average. Well, we are not
here to debate how many mutations we have, but let it be known that we are all MUTANTS!
Sorry, you can’t teleport or read minds; at best you’ll have a different color
eyes then your parents, and at worse you aren't able to read this blog. But to
save time we will assume we can all read. Moving on… You see when we were conceived, God gave us two copies of our genes, one from our Dad, and one from our Mom, so
if one of these genes are mutated the other parents genes can step in and saved
the day! Yay Mom!
Now if both parents genes are mutated we run into problems, but what are the odds of that happening…Well probably
pretty high if they got their genes from the same place, such as having the
same parents, such a being brother and sister. The problem reveals itself! So
how were Cain’s children able to turn out normal; how were any of us able to
turn out normal if all this family marrying was going on in the beginning?
Let us assume everyone here believes
that the Bible story of creation is true. I am going to run on this assumption,
if you don’t…well humor me. But God created Adam and Eve perfect, flawless,
squeaky clean. This means no genetic mutations, imagine superman, without
flying…or lasers, not saying it didn’t happen, but it wasn’t in the Bible so we
can only hope. Now it would take many, many, many generation to cause a serious
genetic problem, in fact even in Abraham’s time it was still fairly common.
Abraham himself was married to his half –sister; don’t believe me, look it up,
Genesis 20. So this is how genetically Cain was able to get away with marrying
his close relative.
There is still the law, right? I mean, it’s
hardly fair, they are breaking a law, but if they don’t break the law they are
not doing what God told them, which is populate the earth, but God put the law
in place. It hurt just thinking about it. Stop, God didn’t put the law into place
until hundreds of years after Abraham, and well over a thousand years after
Cain. I will use the example given to me, because I feel it is very good. You
have a shepherd watching his sheep. They are in the plains and he can see for
miles, no dangerous animals, nothing that the sheep can hurt themselves with, a
pretty safe environment. Will the shepherd bother with building a fence? No of
course not, but what if they move close to a cliff? Or a pack of wolves move
into the area? Will he build a fence? Most likely! If there isn’t anything to worry about God
doesn’t put the law into place, but now a thousand years later the Jewish people
are wandering in the desert, they are tight knit group, they don’t take lots of
outsiders in for new genetic material, there needs to be some kind of
protections of something they can’t even begin to understand. Remember, God
places the law into effect; God isn’t subservient to the law!
Can I tell you without a doubt, ‘Cain
married his sister’? Nope, wasn’t there. This is my belief, but without a time
machine we can only look at the information we have and this seems like the
most logical conclusion.
~David Dye
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I read that, you can too.
"Genetic Material (pardon the pun) has been approved by Shannon Hart, Biology Major of
the United States Air Force Academy"
"Genetic Material (pardon the pun) has been approved by Shannon Hart, Biology Major of
the United States Air Force Academy"
