You needn't go all the way to the New Testament to find puzzles. Eve is identified as the mother of all mankind and bore Cain and Able (population earth 4 and rising). Cain killed Able (Oops, now 3), he was banished and left for the land of Nod whereupon he married and produced children. What?
My question: Cain's wife was apparently from Nod? Where did the people of Nod come from? Where was Nod in relation to the garden? Is Nod ever mentioned again in any part of the known Bible? Did Adam and Eve vacation in the land of Nod and procreate like bunnies, before Cain and Able took it to the mat? "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it" doesn't seem to fit the timeline...
Regards,
GtG
If the people of Nod are NOT descended from Adam and Eve, then presumably there are descendents of theirs who are not descended from Adam and Eve — if you even believe that that story is anything more than a story. Unless Cain’s wife was the only female in Nod, which I would think is VERY unlikely.
Now, if that is so, that blows a big fat hole in the doctrine of Original Sin, doesn’t it?