Sons of God: Where Did Cain Get His Wife?

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By Pastor Doug Batchelor

One of the most popular questions skeptics enjoy posing about the Bible is, “Where did Cain’s wife come from?”

But this is just an example of where you just need to keep reading to get the answer. Genesis 5:4 tells us that Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters. If you lived 930 years, like Adam, and if you were healthy, fertile, and reproductive for only 20 percent of your life, you would still have around 200 childbearing years. With God’s command to be fruitful and multiply, no doubt Adam’ and Eve’s progeny became quite numerous.

Considering the near perfect vitality and health experienced by the first generations … well, they probably had throngs of children. So Cain undoubtedly took one of his many sisters as his wife. At this point in Bible history, when man’s genetic vitality was at its peak, there was nothing forbidding the practice. Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:2). Isaac married his cousin. It was not until the time of Moses that marrying a sister was forbidden, likely because of the greater risk of genetic weakness and health complications with the offspring (Deuteronomy 27:22).

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7 Comments

Miguel

So how long did cane live before he met hes wife becuz when god send him alway was hes wife born or should I say hes sister and other thing was it possible for a woman in this case eve to be able to have so many children.

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Kampofu

All thanks to this

Anonymous

I'm not ready to say that God condoned incest marriage, even though when Lots two daughters got him drunk, and slept with him, and become pregnant, there was no punishment, but there two sons ancestors became the Moabites and the Ammonties, bitter enemies of Abrahams descendants.I still believe in the supernatural power of God, I think God could have did like he did with Adam, and took one of Cains ribs and made him a wife.

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naturallymine

I had that thought but no. Because that would have made Cain (a murderer )a more perfect wife a created being _ sinless and perfect than Eve the first woman. Also God would not create a damaged being feom his defiled body in my opinion just to match sinful cain state... Mmm if he really wanted to he could have sscratched Adam and Eve from the get go.. but lucifer would have had a field day with the thought of that idea alone.

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Anonymous

I see what you are saying about if God took one of Cains Ribs and made him a wife, that she would be without Sin, and if she become One with Cain through sexual intercourse She would be defiled because Cain was in a falling State, but if she came from Cain who came from Adam and Eve who were in the same falling State she to would have the same sinful falling nature. Look at this way Melchizedek had no Genealogy, did he take a wife?

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Johann

Melchizedech wasn't a name but a title that meant 'king of righteousness.'

Some scholars have posited that he was one of several avatars of Jesus (the Creator) in the old testament (were not referring to website avatars - the word comes from the sacred Sanskrit language, and it means 'descent,' as in the descent [to earth] of a deity into physical form).

Others have proposed that Mel was Seth the son of Noah. This makes sense because Seth was from the old generation of 800 to 900+ year life-spans. Also Seth landed (or his ship did) in a world devoid of life, except the life that existed on his ship. Seth was one of the fathers of the new world, and he outlived many new generations that had no concept of comprehension of the world that existed before the flood. Just think - is it possible that the prediluvian world was technologically advanced just as ours is? How could any of that be explained to the new generation? It would all be fairy tales to them. Remember that no part of the Bible was written before the flood. Just think of the developments that intelligent people would make in an 800 year working lifespan... Yes, the OT only talks about early world jobs like planting, building, and fighting, but this comes from a limited knowledge based on their own current world.

Most likely the highly advanced civilization no longer needed a god, so they were destroyed.

Checkout Plato's writings about the city of Atlantis, and how this matches up dimensionally with the Richat Structure (google earth it).

Of course, most people pooh-pooh it because no technology is found - but haven't you driven by an old car rusting in a field? This are only a few decades old. How much would be left in a could hundred years? No, no technology can overcome oxidation and entropy.

Anyway, I went on a bit of a tangent there, it all ties in.

I think old Mel was probably Seth from the Old (pre-flood) World.