or, stated more correctly, from whence are we?
in the bible, cain murders his bro, eventually grows up, goes away, and gets married… but to whom? did god create some other people, unmentioned in the bible, or did cain marry an unmentioned sister? anybody know?
There are a few theories. (Regarding Genesis myth, of course, not actual biology.)
One is that God created ither people, who’s names were simply not mentioned. Another is that Adam and Eve had several children, including girls, who also went unnamed. Not such a remote possibility, as the Bible rarely names female lineages.
Cain also is afraid that he will persecuted by other people for killing Abel. But what other people? I have to say though, that your question is a century or so late to be totally original. Mark Twain published a novella called Letters from the Earth, which primarily ridicules certain points of the Bible and Christianity in general. Come to think of it, even Mark Twain probably wasn’t the first. Yet there continue to be Christians to this day. Imagine that! 
By the way, you misspelled avocado.
wow, i reckon you’re the nicest person i done met on this here internet. an’ smart as a whip, to boot. thanky fer pointin’ out the error of my ways.
I came from California.
Oh? What? That wasn’t what you meant?
Sorry. Never mind!
If you need some guideance try this site. Or you could always read a textbook on evolution and put any silly christian ideas out of your head.
Yea, all that “love thy neighbor” stuff is just so silly. :rolleyes:
Maybe they ‘married’ female monkeys.
So both Darwin and the bible are actually correct…
From the King James Version
Genesis 1:24-31
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Then from Genesis 2:1-9, 18, 21-23
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.*
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18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
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From Gen 1:26-27, it seems apparent that God made humans on the sixth day. Then in Gen 2:7, He made Adam. So it seems to me that Adam and Eve were kind of an experiment, to see how humans would do if they didn’t have to strive to live. With only 1 temptation, A&E failed. Once they were banished from the Garden, they had to work like all the other humans, like the ones that Cain was afraid of.
Abiogenesis.
Yer pal,
Satan
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This topic was recently discussed in the thread Cain: I now pronounce you man and… Huh?
