| Alistair 2008-01-29, 6:56 pm |
| On 25 Jan, 18:27, "Judson McClendon" <ju...@sunvaley0.com> wrote:
> "Alistair" <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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d one. Duh![color=darkred]
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> Not if she was already there, or went there later. The Bible does not
> record the timeframe, only the sequence of the birth of the sons.
> These people lived almost a thousand years;
Only according to the bible. I presume that a mystical intervention by
the cosmic supreme being magically re-instated the lengths of the
telomeres in biblical generations otherwise they would have been dead
within 200 years tops.
> what difference if Cain's
> wife was born 50 or 100 years after him?
A lot if you do not believe the ages recorded in the bible.
> Many people marry with
> 10 or 15 year difference in age, equivalent to more than 150 years
> difference in those days. The Bible says Adam and Eve had other
> sons and daughters, it doesn't say how many, or how many their
> children had, or their grandchildren. Cain's wife could have been his
> neice, or grand neice. Lack of detail does not imply a contradiction.
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> (Genesis 4:15)
> =A0 And the Lord said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance
> =A0 shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord set a mark on Cain,
> =A0 lest anyone finding him should kill him.
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I stand corrected on that. It was my belief that the biblical cain was
marked for death.
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