You have to look closely, but Cain is not listed in the genealogy of Adam,
which means that Cain was not the genetic offspring of Adam. Seth was, and
Noah, Eber, Abraham, and Jacob are his descendants.
The Canaanites were Cain's descendants, not Seth's. The flood didn't affect
the Canaanites who were not in the area of the flood, only the descendants
of Seth. Modern jews claim to be descendants of the Canaanites, but there's
genealogical evidence that the Khazars from whom most of them are
descendants were never genetically linked even to the Canaanites. There is
also Ashkenaz, another son of Noah, who the jews claim to be descendants of,
which DNA evidence may soon clarify with certainty.
> There we were,
> around six thousand years ago, living in our little farming communities
> around the Caspian Sea
There's no way of knowing from the Holy Bible that this was 6,000 years ago.
By way of reference, at the rate the US population is growing (sans
immigration) it would take only 1,400 years to grow from 2 people to 6
billion people (the current population of the world).
John Knight
<bard at dmcom.net> wrote in message news:3D64FE61.16C at dmcom.net...
>raugust at ptd.net wrote:
> >
> > Ok, Bob, here goes.
> >
> > Josh McDowell was in college and dating a young lady. As a Christian,
she
> > challenged him to disprove the Holy Bible in all its aspects, historical
and
> > spiritual. Mr. McDowell tried in every way to disprove Holy text, using
> > historical records, maps, biological records, evolution, revolution, and
> > everything else on which he could lay hands.
> >
>>http://www.caw.org/articles/otherpeople.html>> A few excepts:
>> I innocently remark: "But none of that applies to us. We have no need
> for salvation because we don't have original sin. We are the Other
> People."
>> 16 Cain left the presence of Yahweh and settled in the land of Nod, east
> of Eden.
> We can assume that the phrase "left the presence of Yahweh" implies
> that Yahweh is a local deity, and not omnipresent. Now Eden, according
> to Gen. 2:14-15, was situated at the source of the Tigris and Euphrates
> rivers, apparently right where Lake Van is now, in Turkey. "East of
> Eden," therefore, would probably be along the shores of the Caspian Sea,
> right in the Indo-European heartland. Cain settled in there, among the
> people of Nod, and married one of the women of that country. Here, for
> the first time, is specifically mentioned the "other people" who are not
> of the lineage of Adam and Eve. I.e., the Pagans.
>> So let's look at this story from another viewpoint: There we were,
> around six thousand years ago, living in our little farming communities
> around the Caspian Sea, in the land of Nod, when this dude with a
> terrible scar comes stumbling in out of the sunset. He tells us this
> bizarre story, about how his mother and father had been created by some
> god named Jahweh, and put in charge of a beautiful garden somewhere out
> west, and how they had gotten thrown out for disobedience after eating
> some of the landlord's forbidden magic fruit of enlightenment. He tells
> us of murdering his brother, as the god of his parents would only accept
> blood sacrifice, and of receiving that scar as a mark so that all would
> know him as a fratricide.
>> Now it doesn't mention here where Seth's wife came from. Another woman
> from Nod, possibly, or maybe someone from another neolithic community
> downstream in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. But her folks also, cannot be
> of the lineage of Adam and Eve, and must also be counted among "the
> other people."
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