Sep 23, 2026 08:37 PM
1st theory: Since the births of female offspring aren't recorded, Cain simply married a sister. Like House Targaryen, incest might explain why there is so much insanity among humans. A second possibility was ventured by the young lad in the film The Savage Is Loose: That Cain might have stolen his mother Eve from his father, in the course of fleeing to the "land of Nod". But that's anticipating a certain Greek play and a Freudian complex well before their time.
2nd theory: Other human-like beings existed before Adam, and Cain took one of them as wife.
3rd theory: In Hebrew, "Adam" also supposedly refers to mankind in general (plural). But in its "ledger" detours Genesis also states that Adam lived 930 years. So that negates the rival option that "Adam" only refers to humans in general rather than also a single individual.
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant. Seems like a pretty simple statement, right? Well, actually, no, because there's something off about this sentence. One word that triggers one of the most divisive debates in human history.
And these three doors lead to three different answers to our dilemma. At this point in the story, the Bible has named exactly four people: Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, who is dead. So, we really now only have three named people, which poses the question, who did Cain marry?
The first time I actually stopped on that verse, I sat there for a good minute, because it gets even stranger. Look at this. When God confronts Cain over Abel's murder, Cain doesn't panic about punishment. He panics about people. "Whoever finds me will kill me," he said. Whoever? Who exactly is out there looking for you, Cain? And then a few verses later, Cain goes off and builds a city. A city for who? Here's what I find fascinating about all of this.
[...] Marcus is presented with three doors, three realities we will adventure through together. Three doors that answer the exact same question very differently...
[...] When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. Names, ages, sons, deaths. This is not the language of poetry. That's the language of a ledger, bookkeeping. And ledgers make a claim just by their format. This happened to these people in this order. The writer of Genesis 5 is not just giving you a fun character exposition. He's giving you a historical record. But, here's the part I love about the Bible's genealogies.
It's exactly what many people point to as the reason why they don't even bother reading the Bible. They think it's just a story stuffed with name after name. To that, we say, "Exactly." Made-up stories don't read like tax records. Nobody writing a fairy tale stops the action to march through Seth, then Enosh, then Cainan, then Mahalalel, then Jared, and so on, and so on. Other than maybe George R.R. Martin. You write like that when you're keeping real records of real people...
The Humans BEFORE Adam and Eve were SCARY ... https://youtu.be/L87ooPlt2cg
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/L87ooPlt2cg
2nd theory: Other human-like beings existed before Adam, and Cain took one of them as wife.
3rd theory: In Hebrew, "Adam" also supposedly refers to mankind in general (plural). But in its "ledger" detours Genesis also states that Adam lived 930 years. So that negates the rival option that "Adam" only refers to humans in general rather than also a single individual.
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VIDEO EXCERPTS: Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant. Seems like a pretty simple statement, right? Well, actually, no, because there's something off about this sentence. One word that triggers one of the most divisive debates in human history.
And these three doors lead to three different answers to our dilemma. At this point in the story, the Bible has named exactly four people: Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, who is dead. So, we really now only have three named people, which poses the question, who did Cain marry?
The first time I actually stopped on that verse, I sat there for a good minute, because it gets even stranger. Look at this. When God confronts Cain over Abel's murder, Cain doesn't panic about punishment. He panics about people. "Whoever finds me will kill me," he said. Whoever? Who exactly is out there looking for you, Cain? And then a few verses later, Cain goes off and builds a city. A city for who? Here's what I find fascinating about all of this.
[...] Marcus is presented with three doors, three realities we will adventure through together. Three doors that answer the exact same question very differently...
[...] When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. Names, ages, sons, deaths. This is not the language of poetry. That's the language of a ledger, bookkeeping. And ledgers make a claim just by their format. This happened to these people in this order. The writer of Genesis 5 is not just giving you a fun character exposition. He's giving you a historical record. But, here's the part I love about the Bible's genealogies.
It's exactly what many people point to as the reason why they don't even bother reading the Bible. They think it's just a story stuffed with name after name. To that, we say, "Exactly." Made-up stories don't read like tax records. Nobody writing a fairy tale stops the action to march through Seth, then Enosh, then Cainan, then Mahalalel, then Jared, and so on, and so on. Other than maybe George R.R. Martin. You write like that when you're keeping real records of real people...
The Humans BEFORE Adam and Eve were SCARY ... https://youtu.be/L87ooPlt2cg
