willieH: Hi dusty...

Paul, Cain was not born of Adam. When Cain was born, Eve said she had gotten a man from the Lord.
More of your
WILLFUL REFUSAL to believe what the
WORD, ...
SAYS...
Gen 4:1 ...and ...ADAM... knew EVE his wife and SHE CONCIEVED, and BARE CAIN...Plainly stated... Adam & Eve, "mated" ("knew" each other) and PROCREATION (concieved) resulted...
It boggles my mind that you can INSERT into this Scripture, an alternative LIE which says ADAM was not the father of CAIN... when
Gen 4:1 plainly states that he was...

Not "rocket science" there, dusty... Plain & simple, but just outside of your concocted
fictional agenda...
In your observation, you are assuming that Cain was the
FIRSTBORN of Adam
AND EVE... Scripture does NOT note CAIN to be their FIRSTBORN...
In the LAW of
YHVH the FIRSTBORN
MALES, who OPEN the WOMB, are HOLY (set apart) unto the LORD...
(Luke 2:23 / Num 3:13 / Ex 22:29) This is so written because
JESUS CHRIST was FIRSTBORN... and all males which do the same (open the womb) are known to be PARTICULAR in this way as is HE...
FIRSTBORN Males to open the Female womb are RARE, and are APPOINTED to HOLINESS... (set apart in the purpose of
YHVH)
That said dusty, ...Cain was hardly HOLY unto the LORD... so I must deduce that even though CAIN was Eve's first
male child, ...he was
NOT, her FIRST child, neither did he
OPEN her womb...
Though I note this as only a SPECULATION, ...I believe EVE's "exclamation" about CAIN, is so stated because many DAUGHTERS had already been born to HER (as a mother) prior to Cain... This was her way of saying ..."finally... its a BOY!"
For She said:
"I" (not
WE), have gotten a
MAN (male child) from
YHVH...
She did not include Adam in this statement (though it is plainly noted that He was the Father -
Gen 4:1)...
Adam probably sired many sons with his daughters prior to the birth of CAIN... So when EVE finally concieved a MALE, her words bore: "
I have gotten a man from
YHVH..."
Who knows, maybe Eve had born SEVERAL, maybe even 100 Girls prior to Cain! No one can say... as NO notation of the FEMALES born to them is mentioned at all! ...but we KNOW that some, even MANY females must have been born... otherwise,
where did Cain's "wife" come from? As well as those dwelling in the "land of NOD"?
It is easy to explain the "Nod" population... Just as we men of today, leave the nest, and CLEVE unto our wives... so did they way back "in the day"!

If they (Adam & Eve) had 100 daughters, and THIS ONE was (finally) MALE... of course there would be EXCITEMENT...

And given the OT mannerisms which showed men as having
many WIVES and even,
additional CONCUBINES... Adam more than likely, mated with his daughters as well as Eve... for NO LAW was in place to deter or even suggest such behaviors were inappropriate...

It is certainly possible and in all likelihood PROBABLE, that MANY MALES had been born to the
daughters of Adam & Eve, and some were possibly
sired by Adam, ...but EVE's FIRST
MALE child, was CAIN...
It is assumed that CAIN and ABEL were the 3rd and 4th humans to exist... which is really AS MUCH an
assumption, as NOT...

There is no notation of daughters being born, but then again, '57 Chevy's aren't mentioned in the Scriptures either, even though they came into existence...

The notation of CAIN and ABEL was pertinent due to the crime committed by CAIN against ABEL... but who knows WHEN this took place? CAIN may have been 100 years even 200 years old! It is my observation that A LOT could happen in "100 or 200 years"...
And for that matter, TIME was not moving at the rate of speed we observe today... Heck, an hour back then might be equivalent to a YEAR now! No one can really say...
Men of today, including ourselves, look back at the historical notations in the Bible, and deduce by its noted CHRONOLOGY, that only 6000 "years" have occured... but what is NOT taken in consideration by most, is the RATE at which TIME moves... We look from our present observation of TIME, and then deduce it was ALWAYS moving at the rate it is today...
I say, ...NO WAY!

TIME is best when SAVORED... SLOWLY... but today... no one has TIME for anything. Let alone, to CARE about those less fortunate then themselves... As "Christianity" preaches
HELL or like you dusty... ANNHILATION... they sit comfortably in their pews (conveniently including themselves in the "safety" of SALVATION), or before their computers, without concern that the DIRE message they propose to believe, is by them, SINGLY inhibited by their LACK of FERVENT activity!
She did not say this about Abel. Cain and Able were nonidenticle twins with different fathers and different natures, or spirits.
What a COMPLETELY ...NON-BIBLICAL
speculation is this! There is no notation that these 2 were TWINS...

...please, me-bratha!

The BIBLICAL sire of each of these 2 was ADAM... you just refuse to agree with what is WRITTEN...
This is very tough for people who disregard the other books not cannonized by the catholic church. No problem for those who are grounded in the many, including the Targums of Palistine.
Methinks you live in your own little "personal" fairy tale...
There is a reason these books were not "cannonized"... it was because it is part of the PURPOSE of GOD to SEPARATE His WORD from writings of MAN...
There are MANY MANY "Biblical-like" writings that have survived time, ...but GOD is in CONTROL of HIS WORD... and has SEPARATED it from Man's false writings...
Had peripheral books such as those in the "APOCRAPHA" actually been inspired, they would have been INCLUDED in the WORD... To say otherwise, is to indicate that GOD does not address His concern as to what IS considered His
WORD, and what IS NOT... leaving this PARAMOUNT decision up to US...

Just as GOD moved men to NOTE His WORD, He also moved men to SEPARATE it from peripheral human writings...
The evidences of these writings under SPIRITUAL scrutiny, reveal the VENGENT person of MAN... and fail to bear the LOVE and FORGIVENESS of
LOVE which
IS GOD...
GOD created all things dusty... RIGHTLY without consent or consultation with
US... ALL things are worked AFTER the COUNSEL of HIS WILL... including what WAS and what WAS NOT included in the "canon"
You are presently enslaved by these peripheral writings (the
targums of Palestine) of ancient history, which blind you to the TRUTH which actually IS in the WORD of GOD, denying such things plainly written IN IT, as ADAM being the sire of CAIN...
You blatantly state OPPOSING words to what is written and then endorse and recommend, peripheral writings to us...

maybe (hopefully) one day you shall
see this...
