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| Where did Cain find a wife? |
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| Written by David Gaddy | |||
| Wednesday, 31 December 1969 23:59 | |||
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This is an age old question that has taunted those who stand for the truth of creation. Evolutionist and atheists love to throw this question out to confuse and discredit those of us who bel...
This is an age old question that has taunted those who stand for the truth of creation.
Evolutionist and atheists love to throw this question out to confuse and discredit
those of us who believe in creation. In fact, a well known account of this took
place in 1923 when a defense lawyer named Clarence Darrow insisted that the prosecuting
attorney William Jennings Bryan take the stand in defense of the Bible. Darrow
asked Bryan on the stand, "Where did Cain find a wife?". Bryan was stumped and
could not answer the question which made the religious world appear foolish in
their belief of the Bible.
The interesting thing is that the answer to this question can be had without much Bible study. Ask yourself this, how many children did Adam and Eve have? The Bible only mentions 3 by name; Cain, Abel, and Seth. However let's remember that Adam and Eve were commanded to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth" (Genesis 1:28). If you were given this commandment by God and you lived for hundreds of years (he was 130 when he had Seth) then naturally you would bear many children. If we also take into consideration that there was only two people to start with, then their children would have to marry each other in order for the procreation to continue. This is where many stop and say, but interfamily marriages would produce deformed or malformed offspring. But we can find that this didn't use to be the case. Malformations and deformaties are a result of corrupted DNA patterns. Everyones DNA patterns are different and have unique corruptions. So that when we have children, those corruptions are combined to create more corruptions in our childrens DNA. When two people have the same type of corruption in their DNA as siblings do and they procreate, then a malformation is the result. There are two reasonings to prove why Adam and Eve's children did not have this problem.
Another argument against this would be that, marrying your sibling was considered sinful. Therefore God would not have allowed it. To answer this look to the history of God's law(s). God forbade interfamily relationships under the Law of Moses because intermarrying was no longer required to populate the Earth. However it had to be done in the time of Adam and Eve as well as the time of Noah and his family of eight for they were also told to replenish the earth. Now we can conclude that Adam and Eve had many children and thus allowing them to replenish the Earth. They were also physically as well as morally allowed to marry their siblings and have children with them. Thus the answer to this age old question. All William Jennings Bryan had to say on the stand was, "Mr. Darrow, it's simple, Cain married his sister."
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