by KAYTEE 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Problem with the account of Cain.
Does anyone know the age of Cain when he killed Abel. I have heard the figure of 35/40 years mentioned.
The reason I ask this is, when he killed Abel he fled to the land of fugitiveness – who were the people living there? Now according to the Glorious Brothers these were the offspring of Adam and Eve. Bearing in mind that Cain was the first born. How could a group of people develop so quickly to populate the land and to be considered a threat to Cain?
KT
How could there be Fugitives?
This should have been the title of the above post, but I forgot to add it. I have tried to edit the post but keep on getting error messages
Any ideas anyone?
KT
Folks in the know will know to click on the threaded view! Maybe your best option is to just start a new thread with the title in.
As for the question, I thought the the rest of the population was explained away by those wicked fallen angels coming to earth - maybe they could populate quicker than regular humans?!
Good Day to you KayTEE!
This question occurs regularly, like here,
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081103151534AAB51XR
I think that at that time they had just discovered how good sex was, went at it like rabbits, so big population increase.
fokyc
That's wicked Simon, you fixed that problem of a posting without a subject!
But only on JWN
fokyc
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Come on guys help Kaytee out with his question
fokyc
Even if Eve had a child a year, her first born being Cain, by the time he was 40 there would be 40 kids, unless she had sestuplets along the way. Her poor v-jay jay. Even if half her children were woman and had their babies and their babies had babies, they wouldn't have grown into that big of population. Plus if they were clannish they would have built up around each other, safety in numbers.
Ag it's just too much! Adam & Eve are just figurative parental roles that signify something else - much more logical.
One likely reason is that the story of Caïn did not originally belong with the creation narratives, but was later moved to this place (which created a number of logical problems, also: Cain's wife, who might find Cain and kill him, etc.). The basic story has nothing to do with the beginnings of mankind, but with the origin of one particular semi-nomadic people, i.e. the Kenites (which might as well be transliterated Caïnites). Such stories (ethnical etiologies) are frequent in Genesis (cf. Jacob/Israel, Esau/Edom, Lot/Moab-Ammon)
Since females didn't figure for much in the Biblical narratives, how many daughters did Eve bear between Cain and Abel?
Sylvia
I only saw 2 in the "my book of bible stories" They looked brat-ish too.
