r3 wrote:
Gen 4: 1 says no such thing. All it says is that Adam ''knew'' (yada) Eve and in most Bible translations there is a fullspot after.
Genesis 4:1 has:
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.
Being that "yada" - "knew" is often used for "had sex with", and since it says in the same verse that Eve then became pregnant, it's hard to justify denying that Adam was Cain's father.
Note that in Jude 1: 14 Cain is not listed as a descendant of Adam.
Here's Jude 1:14-
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him......
So Seth, Noah, and everyone else aren't descendants of Adam, since they aren't mentioned in Jude 1:14, which only mentions Enoch? Come on! Even Enoch's father, Jared, isn't mentioned in Jude 1:14. So you are saying Enoch's father isn't descended from Adam, but Enoch is?
Here's John 3:12-
I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
I think you mean 1st John 3:12, which only points out that Cain is a murderer (duh.) and doesn't say anything about his paternity.
I'd be hard pressed to find a more clear example of someone making up some idea and reading it into their chosen Bible.
The serpent seed doctrine is found throughout the entire Bible.
Please show me a verse that clearly states that Cain resulted from Eve having sex with an animal.
Hence Noah and his house were only of pure stock and were saved. Genesis calls him of ''perfect generations''.His linage was not mixed with the Cainites.
Here is Gen 6:9-
This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
Again, no reference to Noah's geneology. I see a pattern here. The Bible scholars translated the NIV as their learning best leads them to do, and you come along, and decide that you know better, and "re translate" (actually, "reword") the text yourself to mean what you want it to mean to support your racism.
Cains descendants were evil while the Sethites never were.
So in your racist form of Chrisianity, depending on who your parents were, you'll be evil and punished forever in hell, or inescapably good and destined for heaven? Do you consider God to be a just God? Do you consider punishment by heredity to be just?
So eskimos descend from Gauls and the Sumerians? Basic history prooves we all have different ancestors.
By "most people", I mean to exclude indigenous populations. All of us with European ancestors are descended as I described. Just do the math - you have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 gg grandparents, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, and so on. Simple math shows that going back just 500 years gives about a million ancestors, and the numbers get really huge after that. There is tons of overlap, but also, because people move around, you soon include most everyone in Europe, the middle east, and so on.
Looking in the other direction, you see the same thing. That's why we are all descended from king david, who had over a half dozen wives and dozens of children. All those kids married non-David line people, and all their kids were of course descended from David, doubling the number. That process would grow the number of david descendants to hundreds in less than a century (by 900 BC), and to the whole population of Jerusalem by 700 BC, and start to include much of the surrounding cities too. By 600 BC, most Jews were descendants of David. That's when the diaspora happend (~ 600 BC), sending those descendants of David out across the mediterranean. Some in Gaul, Italy, Greece, and so on. By 100 BC that means that most of the population around the mediterranean was descended from david, so within a few centuries people in Germany and other nothern countries would be too, and by 800 AD, practically everyone in Europe. So of course we all have David as an ancestor. You can do the math yourself.
And note how your take on the Bible is influenced by your modern socio-political views. Instead of reading the scripture you twist it to fit your politics or views on society.
Oh no! I've failed to make my Christianity racist enough! I'm doomed for sure for that one!
On another note - the Picts descended mostly from local stock, according to historians, and did not arrive as a mass migration from israel.
Caledonians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
-Papias, who is starting to think that he has better uses for his time.