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Cain's wife is one those “other children, one of his sisters likely. Some of those sons and daughters of Gen. 5:4 born earlier.

Please point to the verse that states this; in fact, Genesis 5:4 states (KJV):

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters

Clearly the Bible lays out the chronology of the other sons and daughters as AFTER Adam had Seth, which happens AFTER Cain is married.

The Bible is unequivocal on this matter; there were NO other people on the earth at the time Cain slew Abel other than Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel.

Exactly which one of Cain's female relatives became his wife isn't stated or how old he was when he took a wife and fled east. but since he did take a wife there were females, his relatives, alive at the time.

No, there weren't if you go by a strict reading of the Bible! See, you're allowing your own inferences to override the literal texts and words of the Bible. Biblically, the other relatives WERE NOT BORN until after Cain fathered Enoch. Period. Point to ANY other births prior to that, or to any verse stating that Adam had other children before (not after) Seth was born. You can't.

So you make a conclusion that it must have been true and this is an irrelevant detail to concern yourself with since it's the only thing that could have worked. Never mind the Bible doesn't mention it.

Yet you denigrate those who do the same for the Creation story. That maybe the importance of the Creation story is not in the methodology of the Creation as written but in the meaning of the Creation? That the Bible - just like with Cain's wife - does not record every event historically, but contains them for the fundamental philosophical and theological truths that God loves us!

Point to any verse showing Cain died. There simply is no record of his death as there was of major characters mentioned.

Therefore by your supposed strict reading, Cain and his family are STILL living East of Eden in Land of Fugitiveness where he build a city all by himself.
According to your “strict reading”.

The Genesis account was treated by Christ, Peter, and Paul as historical events not philosophical fables.

Myself, I take evolution as a metaphorical fable designed to denigrate the Genesis account.

According to John 3:16 it was the giving of His son that evidenced God's love for mankind. Not fables, myths, etc. Afterall Genesis starts out “in the beginning” not “once upon a time”.