There has always been discussions and speculation about other people existing on the Earth, outside of the Garden of Eden, at the same time that God created Adam and Eve. Then there has always been the question about where Cain got his wife. Did he take his sister to be his wife, or did she come from some other group of people outside of his family? We shall take a close look at the scriptures to see if any other possibilities exist besides the straight forward understanding that everyone has accepted, by accepting that Adam and Eve were the only people that God created in the beginning.
The most referenced book about the Creation is Genesis. There has been much controversy over the first two chapters. Some scholars propose two creations and some even propose that Adam was created on the eighth day. However, a closer study of the two chapters reveals a startling new revelation that also explains where Cain's wife really came from and how mankind came to exist prior to the arrival of Adam and Eve.
We must notice that the last event to take place on the Sixth Day was the creation of man. Please note that the word “man” was translated from the Hebrew word “aw-dawm” which could have just as well been translated to “mankind, human beings or people”, it does not necessarily mean that a “man” or a man named “Adam” was created at this point in time. Verses 24 -31 of Chapter 1 clearly state that mankind was created after the creation of the beasts of the field. God created mankind, both male and female and gave them dominion over all of the other creatures that had been created. Then God told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth with their offspring. It was God’s intent for these people to reproduce and have children, something He did not tell Adam and Eve to do while they were in the Garden of Eden.
God further told those who He created that the herbs that bear seeds and the fruit of the trees would be for food for them. Herbs that bear seeds for food would not need for the ground to be cultivated and planted year after year. Thus it was not necessary for these people to have knowledge and skills to be farmers.
Now in comparison to what the difference was between these created people and the life of Adam and Eve in the Garden was a little different. When God created Adam and Eve, He created then as immortal beings that would never die and intended for them to live in the Garden of Eden forever. God also did not intend for them to bear children since He never told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth with their offspring. Adam and Eve being immortal beings would never grow old and die, so there was never a reason for them to produce seed to preserve their bloodline after them. The bearing of children by Adam and Eve only took place after their fall and were put out of the Garden, and then it became necessary for their bloodline to be preserved through their offspring.
The first group of humans that God created were not immortal beings and they account for the evidence of people existing some thousands of years before Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden about the year of 4004BC. God exiled Adam and Eve out of the Garden to live on the Earth in a mortal existence, in other words, to die. They were the original ancestors of mankind through Noah and his descendants, and of the Jewish nation through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, down through the generations to Jesus who God predestined to atone for Adam’s sin of disbelief.
Now to get to Cain and who was to become his wife. It is possible that Cain took one of his sisters for a wife, but not probable. Of course the same stands true for Adam’s other living son Seth. But the scriptures clearly state that Adam and Eve only produced more sons and daughters after the birth of Seth who was born when Adam was 130 years old, 130 years after he left the Garden. If we accept the chronology as presented by the scriptures, Adam and Eve had no daughters available for Cain to take for wife. It then should be obvious that Cain took a wife from the peoples that existed on the Earth outside of the Garden of Eden.
Then the question might arise as to why God would first create some people on the Earth, then turn around and create Adam and Eve apart from them. Not being able to get into the mind of God, we can only speculate on why this could have happened.
It appears that the first people that God created and put on the Earth was during the sixth day of Creation after He had created the land animals, but the Creation of the man Adam didn’t occur until after the seventh day when God rested from His time of Creation. Why could this have happened? Didn’t the scripture state that when the sixth day of creation was ended that the Heavens, the Earth and all the host of them were finished? Yes that is true, but God must have seen a need for something in addition to all He had created. Let me ask you this, doesn’t God have a right to do whatever He pleases? Is God bound by the fact that everything was finished after the sixth day ended?
Genesis chapter two and verse six mentions that “there was not a man to till the ground”, then in verse seven God created Adam and put him in the Garden to do just that, to till the ground and provide the service that a Garden needs to flourish. Obviously the people of the first creation did not possess the knowledge and skill to do this kind of work, but Adam did and was commanded by God to dress and keep the Garden which required Adam to have knowledge about cultivating the ground.
It's well documented scientifically that early mankind were hunter/gatherers, not gardeners or farmers. This is a reference to them, not that there were no humans at all. If all mankind were descended from Adam it's unlikely that the knowledge of such a rudimentary skill as farming would be lost. If however, a separate group of humans, the ones that were told to Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, were not given the knowledge of farming, there would not be a man to till the ground. The hunter/gatherers that we know of scientifically because of the finding of human remains that came from a time over six thousand years ago and this other race of humans spoken of in the Bible are one and the same.
One other thing to look at is the incident about Cain after he had killed his brother Abel. When God had admonished Cain because of what he had done, Cain was fearful that someone would find him and take his life after he was driven out from under God’s protection.
Who was Cain going to be a fugitive from? Who else was there, outside of Eden, that Cain was afraid might kill him? Who was God protecting him from by giving him the mark? His descendants or the descendants of future siblings? Unlikely. Adam and Eve's future family would have respected Cain's banishment as God's punishment. Retribution wouldn't have entered their minds. As for Cain's descendants, had he not been protected by the mark, he could've simply not had children. No, he was afraid of someone else. It was the other humans that he was being protected from. Those who came forth from the creation of people outside of the Garden of Eden, who were dwelling in the land of Nod where he fled to.
Moving on to Chapter 6, as time passed and men began to multiply on the earth, daughters were born unto them. The sons of God took daughters of men as wives. The generations from Adam to Noah are the "sons of God" that married into mankind, those people who were created before Adam and Eve were.. Their offspring were the "mighty men of old," known throughout the earth.
Verse 3 of the same chapter informs us God set the years of man to be one hundred and twenty. The genealogies from Adam to Noah show the sons of God, the descendants of Adam, lived for several hundreds of years, far beyond the age of men. This tells us there was definitely a difference between the genetic makeup of the sons of God and these other people who were created on the sixth day of creation.
The generations of mankind did not evolve from the intermarrying of brothers and sisters of the children of Adam and Eve, as some propose. Incestuous relationships are an abomination to God and He did not intend for mankind to evolve from such relationships. The offspring of Adam and Eve and their future generations who were referred to as the “sons of God” married the daughters of mankind who were created on the Sixth Day.
Now let us just summarize what we have concluded according to what the scriptures have revealed to us. During the sixth day of creation God created a race or several races of people which consisted of males and females and instructed them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth with their offspring. This is something that God did not intend for Adam and Eve to do and didn’t instruct them to do. God did command these races of people to have dominion over all the animal creatures, but didn’t instruct them to farm the ground for their food.
After the days of creation ended and God rested, He created Adam and Eve after His day of rest and put them in the Garden of Eden to take care of it like a farmer would by tilling the ground and keeping it neat and clean. This was something God didn’t instruct the sixth day created people to do. Adam and Eve were created immortal beings that would never die, but live in the paradise of the Garden forever.
After Adam and Eve disobeyed God by not believing His word, He put them out of the Garden and removed their immortality so they would eventually die and made it possible for Eve to bear children as a normal woman would. God also told Adam that he would no more have the fruit trees provided for their food and Adam would have to farm the ground for their food. Thus, Adam had the knowledge and skill to farm the ground which the other races of people didn’t have.
Cain was banished from God’s face to roam the Earth which he did until he took a wife of the daughters of the men from the sixth day creation of people and in the land of Nod, with the help of its inhabitants built a city there and begat children. Seth and all of his seed also took wives of the sixth day creation people until their wicked lifestyles got so bad that God decided to destroy all of then instead of Noah and his family.
The majority of believers already accept that modern man descended from Noah and his families. Noah and his sons passed the genealogy of Adam and Eve to the present generations. Because of their longevity, the sons of God and their offspring of the women of mankind must have traveled all over the earth and became the "mighty men of renown." They were the heroes of ancient myths and legends, some worshiped them as gods, and some proclaimed to be gods or sons of gods. They knew of their ancestry, of those who once lived in Paradise. They had also inherited the ancient ancestral forbidden knowledge of good and evil, which both God and Satan proclaimed they possessed, and now Adam and Eve had become as one of them, knowing good and evil. This knowledge was not just the ability to discern right from wrong. It was the knowledge of all good and all evil. Astrology and astronomy, necromancy and the black arts, mathematics and architecture, all seemed to suddenly explode in the minds of mankind after 4000 B. C. and expand into new realms of intelligent creations and manifestations of power, both dark and light.
Although archeological evidence reveals mankind was around prior to 4004 B. C., he did not invent writing until after this period. There are numerous cultural legends throughout the world of a great deluge or even the creation of mankind, which are similar to events of Genesis and other stories of the Bible. It would appear evident these tales were generated by the sons of God as they spread upon the face of the earth and passed down the history of their beginning and previous generations.
Accepting the creation of Adam on the Eighth Day gives validity to the whole Creation epic as recorded in Genesis. There are no more discrepancies in the two chapters. Man has overlooked the truth for too long, or looked in the wrong places. When we can understand what the Creation was all about, then we can begin to understand what we are all about and better create our future. Our destiny is not in the stars, but within our minds. It is what we believe that will shape what is to come. We cannot remain lukewarm, believing in God and evolution. Whichever we choose to believe will determine whether there will be a life after this one. Even before Christianity, many cultures believed life continued. Evolution leaves no room for the spiritual. We will not "evolve" into spiritual beings. Alien life forms are not going to save or destroy humanity or life on earth, nor are we descendants of them or of their genetic engineering of themselves with earth apes.
We are intelligent beings and so much more than just some insignificant speck in space. We can proclaim ourselves as created beings of a divine nature, spawned from the heart and mind of a God beyond all gods, or we can belittle ourselves into a primate state of mind with no belief in anyone greater than ourselves.
Is what has been outlined in this article true? Well only God knows that and maybe we’ll find out after we cross over into that future life. Is it possible that is what happened? Yes, it is definitely possible. After all, this doesn’t have any affect on our salvation; it’s just a study of history and speculation about how it all came about.
One important aspect that we didn’t get into was that Noah, because he found favor with God was responsible for his whole family to be saved whether they were themselves righteous people or not. God has placed the man as the head of his house in a priestly role down through the ages and if the man finds favor with God in whatever God appoints him to do, can be instrumental in the saving of those in his family whether they are deserving of it or not if the man is honored just as he honors the God and Father of us all.
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