[net.religion] The offspring of Adam

cng@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (11/15/83)

With reference to Kenneth Almquist's followup to my followup:

My original comment:
	The Bible teaches that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters
	besides Cain and Abel.  Seth was one of the other childern.

Kenneth's comment:
	The Bible does *not* make reference to any daughters of Adam and Eve.
	It is true that the Bible states that Adam and Eve had three sons rather
	than two, but this hardly detracts from the point of the original 
	article.

	I don't understand why Tom is so eager to have the wives of Cain and
	Seth be born of Adam and Eve anyway since that would make the marriages
	incestuous.

My response:
	If you will look at Genesis 5:4, reference is made to other sons
	and daughters of Adam.  Although Eve is not explicitly mentioned, I 
	think we can conclude that they were a result of the union between
	Adam and Eve.

	It's not "eagerness" so much as wanting to remain faithful to God's
	word.  If people are going to go around telling us what's in the
	Bible, they better KNOW what's in the Bible.


	Tom Albrecht
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wombat@uicsl.UUCP (11/21/83)

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uicsl!wombat    Nov 20 16:41:00 1983

Well, if you want to "remain faithful to God's word" I guess that
that makes incest "natural" between twins B-)
Wombat

ka@hou3c.UUCP (12/06/83)

To quickly recap the previous discussion:
    Somebody asked where Cain's wife came from if the only children
    of Adam and Eve were Cain and Abel.  Tom Albrecht wrote that there
    Adam and Eve had other children besides Cain and Abel.  I claimed
    that Adam and Eve didn't have any daughters, and Tom directed me
    Genesis 5:4.

I must confess my error.  I reread chapter 4 before submitting my article
but overlooked chapter 5.  However, the daughters mentioned in chapter 5
do not appear to have been born yet at the time Cain gets married.  Cain
has a child in 4:17 and Seth is born to Adam and Eve in 4:25.  It seems
pretty clear that the former event occurred first.  In chapter 5, Adam
first has Seth and then has other sons and daughters.  Thus I infer that
Seth was married before any of these other sons and daughters were born.
					Kenneth Almquist