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Should We Blame Cain? - Page 2

At this point in the Bible story, supposedly there are only two other people on the face of this new earth. Neither Adam nor Eve would be referred to by Cain, or God, as "WHOEVER," indicating there were other people on the earth. Cain was not afraid his mother or father would kill him. He was afraid SOMEONE ELSE would kill him.

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mousetrails, you're right. Actually, the Bible does not mention that neither Cain or Abel were the first children that Adam and Eve had, so it's quiet possible that they had other children prior to them, making perfectly sense the verse you just quoted.

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But Cain and Able are the first children mentioned. I do my best not to "read" anything into the Bible, so I have to go with them as being the first children. When Adam was 130 years old he begat Seth. He lived 800 years after Seth and had other sons and daughters. He was 930 years old when he died. So in my mind the question remains. Who was God referring to when he said, "whoever?"

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Mousetrails said:

I read that you said you do your best not to "read" into the Bible but here is another situation to think about. This is what the Lord told Cain:

The Lord does not specify here a time set of the punishment to Cain. He just said he will be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth. Maybe his punishment was to be a vagabond forever making his punishment "too great to bear" and if that's the case, it would make sense when the Lord said "whoever" making reference to all the people who will be born after he set such punishment. This is just something to think about although I still thinking that Adam and Eve probably had other children prior to Cain and Abel.

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It's interesting to me that the God that created heaven, earth, light, vegetation, beast, and fowl, could not create a human being in His own image that would obey Him. Although God ordered it, Cain wasn't a vagabond and wanderer the rest of Hi life.

Edited: mousetrails on 31st Mar, 2006 - 10:40pm