God and science answers begin!

Well everyone, last Sunday was fun for me. I love talking theology and science at the same time. I hope it was informative. We received about four times as many questions as could be answered in one night, so Jordan and I are going to try and tackle these questions on our blogs over the coming weeks. Please keep checking back until your question is answered.

Here is the link to Jordan’s blog – www.faithfulreason.wordpress.com.

My first question is this – After Cain is sent away, who is his wife if only Adam, Eve, and Abel existed?

First of all – JOIN A SMALL GROUP! Sorry for the shameless plug, but this topic was addressed in every small group last week and I love to see people in small groups, so please get in one so you can get answers to questions like this. But I will still give the short answer here.

Adam, Eve, and Abel were not the only people on earth. The Bible discusses these few people, but the Bible rarely gives the entire story surrounding many issues because this is not the Bible’s purpose. It is widely believed that Adam and Eve had had many children, grandchildren, and maybe even great grandchildren by the time Cain killed Abel and was sent into exile. Cain most certainly married one of his sisters, which sounds bad now but would not have been an issue in his time. The reason – because genetic defect is why marriage of close relatives today is so vile. In Cain’s day their genetics were still too pure to be an issue. Now lets get this strait, God himself bans incest in the Scripture. But the vile nature of incest was a later development that Cain did not have to worry about, and God did not ban it until later. To populate the earth, sibling marriage was necessary.