Cain left the area and went 'East' into the land of 'Nod' and found a wife there. Now in Genesis 4:14 Cain says .."Behold, Thou (the Lord) has driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that *EVERY ONE* that findeth me shall slay me." Now there had to be people already in the land of Nod not of the Adam and Eve for Cain to have found a wife.
“Many skeptics have claimed that for Cain to find a wife, there must have been other “races” of people on the earth who were not descendants of Adam and Eve. To many people, this question is a stumbling block to accepting the creation account of Genesis and its record of only one man and woman at the beginning of history. Defenders of the gospel must be able to show that all human beings are descendants of one man and one woman (Adam and Eve) because only descendants of Adam and Eve can be saved. Thus, believers need to be able to account for Cain’s wife and show clearly she was a descendant of Adam and Eve. In order to answer this question of where Cain got his wife, we first need to cover some background information concerning the meaning of the gospel.
Genesis 1:26 says this the sixth day was the first creation of 'man'/'woman' in flesh.... God said His creation was gooood. It is NOT a mutation or fluke or deterioration of the DNA to see the many peoples of the globe. God says that ALLLL souls belong to him and that means alllll of us no matter what race we come in this flesh age.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/who-was-cains-wife Adam lived 930 years and no doubt had many many children. In the beginning, the Dna was pure, and the offspring of close relatives were not subject to DNA degredation like we are today which would result in degraded offspring- the taboo against marrying cloe relatives was not in place when the DNA was pure
This is an ugly accusation against the Heavenly father that his children's skin colors are result of DNA degradations.
Right. Everyone knows that they are the result of DNA improvements -- that is, improvements (adaptations) to better cope with new local environments or changing environments.
[[This is an ugly accusation against the Heavenly father that his children’s skin colors are result of DNA degradations.]]
Ugly ‘accusation’? How do you figure? We brought the curse of sin upon us willingly- EVERYONE is biologically degraded due to mutations- A Mutation causing skin color changes is no more derrogatory than a degredation that causes any other change in a species- it doesn’t mena one race is superior or inferior, so I’m not sure why you think this would be an ‘ugly accusation’ toward God?
[[Now there had to be people already in the land of Nod not of the Adam and Eve for Cain to have found a wife.]]
Yup- and htese people had spread out from their birthplace to inhabit another area and establish a comunity there- it in no way means that there were ‘other people’ created- it simply means that the offspring of Adam moved along to other places and Cain went to another comunity and m arried his kin-
[[God said His creation was gooood. It is NOT a mutation or fluke or deterioration of the DNA to see the many peoples of the globe. God says that ALLLL souls belong to him and that means alllll of us no matter what race we come in this flesh age.]]
First- you seem to be trying to make a race issue out of nothing- Yes- we are ALL God’s workmanship - every color, every person- ALL are from the original which was indeeed VERY good BEFORE the fall which introduced problems that Adam and Eve did NOT have to face had they not caused the curse to come upon mankind
Secondly- the DNA mutations only came AFTER the fall and mutations have NOTHING to do with a person’s race in regards to making one inferior or another superior- we are ALL susceptible to degredation and the result of degredation- no man has escaped the problems of the curse- so NO man can claim superiority- we are ALL less ‘perfect’ than Adam and Eve were before the fall, and infact, Adam and Eve may have been people of color, so that would mean- if anything- that we who are white are lesser than the original creations.
Well would you call death an upgrade? Anyway DNA is a chemical and this is the definition of degrade.
1. to lower in dignity or estimation; bring into contempt: He felt they were degrading him by making him report to the supervisor. 2. to lower in character or quality; debase. 3. to reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, esp. as a punishment: degraded from director to assistant director. 4. to reduce in amount, strength, intensity, etc. 5. Physical Geography. to wear down by erosion, as hills. Compare aggrade. 6. Chemistry. to break down (a compound, esp. an organic hydrocarbon). –verb (used without object) 7. to become degraded; weaken or worsen; deteriorate. 8. Chemistry. (esp. of an organic hydrocarbon compound) to break down or decompose.
Note definitions 6 and 8. If you wish to complain about the use of degraded to describe the offspring, have at it. Remember though, Cain murdered his brother.