Originally posted by searching4truth
both Cain and Able were born with a twin sister and each married the other brothers twin (which it says in the text). In Christianity, it isn't particularly discussed

Exactly correct.
Its not covered in Genesis, but it is in Jewish tradition, and Pseudopigraphal texts. Cain and Able where each born with a twin sister, and Adam wanted the siblings to marry the others twin, not their own. Cain however found his twin sister more attractive then Ables, and this was the start of the problems between the two brothers. After Cain killed his brother, he took his twin sister, and fled the land as God demanded. Ables sister ended up being the wife of Seth some years later, despite her being much older then Seth.


From the Pseudopigraphal Books of Eden:

5 And God looked at His maid-servant Eve, and delivered her, and she gave birth to her first-born son, and with him a daughter. 6 The Adam rejoiced at Eve's deliverance, and also over the children she had borne him. And Adam ministered to Eve in the cave, until the end of eight days; when they named the son Cain, and the daughter Luluwa. 7 The meaning of Cain is "hater," because he hated his sister in their mother's womb; before they came out of it. Therefore Adam named him Cain. 8 But Luluwa means "beautiful," because she was more beautiful than her mother.
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1 When the children were weaned, Eve again conceived, and when her pregnancy came to term, she gave birth to another son and daughter. They named the son Abel and the daughter Aklia.
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10 But as to the hard-hearted Cain, Satan came to him by night, showed himself and said to him, "Since Adam and Eve love your brother Abel so much more than they love you, they wish to join him in marriage to your beautiful sister because they love him. However, they wish to join you in marriage to his ugly sister, because they hate you. 11 Now before they do that, I am telling you that you should kill your brother. That way your sister will be left for you, and his sister will be cast away." 12 And Satan departed from him. But the devil remained behind in Cain's heart, and frequently aspired to kill his brother.

I have read through this thread and cant help but notice that there are so many versions and discrepancies in the bible its ludacrous how people still DONT ask these questions in this day and age for the FEAR of being not a sheep. Hope that made sense

I mean how can one honestly believe this "christianity" thing when everyone just makes up there own versions of what happened so that they can easliy wrap their mind around around the all the frikkin contradictions?

If cain and the rest were inbreeding the whole time we would all look like deformed blobs! lol

Let me attempt again to put some brakes on your bent conversation.

Why do you keep bringing up Christianity when what you're discussing are Hebrew stories and traditions?

I suspect you have it in for Christians and are using any ammo you can find.

Please, please. If you want to discuss this, keep it on track and unbiased.

Originally posted by qwiksilva
I have read through this thread and cant help but notice that there are so many versions and discrepancies in the bible its ludacrous how people still DONT ask these questions in this day and age for the FEAR of being not a sheep.

Actually, considering the thousands of years between the writing of various books, and the thousands of miles between the authors, the Bible is exceptionally consistent. There are some discrepancies, but they are on details, the main plotline (important facts) remains consistently the same to this day. Even the Deuterocanonical, and Pseudopigraphal books (books which are not considered equal to the scripture, but good to read) remain surprisingly consistant with the Bible itself.

Genesis 5:
" This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters:"
The daughters names were ommited from the text. They did indeed intermarry and that is not the only biblical account of this. Abraham and Sarah were brother and sister also. His relation Lot had children with his daughters. In fact this practice of marrying brother and sister was not stopped until Moses was given the Law on MT Sinia.
I suggest that if you are going to ask these type of questions you do your research first. Sounds more plausable than space aliens

There is no conspiracy whatsoever. Cain married one of his sisters, just as all of his other siblings did. In Genesis 5:4 we read a statement that sums up the life of Adam and Eve: “After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.”

Marrying ones close relation was not forbidden by God until the time of the exodus. This was 2900 years after the creation account. (Abraham married his half sister, but again, this predated the law by 400 years)

This law was enacted by God in order to avoid the mutatons that would be produced in the offspring as a result of 2900 years of mutation in the genetic code, which came as a result of Adam/Eve's sin. (Look into the 2nd law of thermodynamics or entropy, we are de-evolving contrary to what we are being told)

If Adam/Eve were the perfect original pair of humans, their offspring would be next to perfect as well (slight mutation after the fall). Therefore their childrens offspring amongst each other, would be w/o major deformities too. 2900 years later, God chose that the gene pool was so corrupted at this time that it was no longer acceptable to marry close relations.

As for the claim of "all the different versions". There is only 1 version, and that is the one found in the Hebrew Masoretic text. All others were simply written long after the fact, by unknown persons. They were ommited from the canon for obvious reasons. All of the accepted canon books are harmonized, the square peg apocropha were never considered to be scripture. Im sure a 1000 years from now, ignorant humans will be debating why Dan Brown's "Davinci code" was left out of the Bible!

Cain married one of his sisters.

It WAS inbreeding. I can't believe you all didn't know this. I learned this when I was in my teens.