Cain was banished to the land of Nod by God after he killed Abel.  How is this possible biblically?
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weird huh.\n\nconsider this too.  arn't we all really decendants of Noah?  after the flood he saved the animals and only his family.\n\npretty suspsicious.
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Israel is a very small piece of land. God promised this to Abraham, Isaac, and (Jacob later called Israel). God said I will bless them that bless you and I will curse them that curse you. If God was not on Israel's side it would be owned by the Palestinians by now.
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I am not aware of any passage stating that God dealt with Elisha about this incident.\nAs far as I can tell, Elisha cursed them in the Name of the Lord, and God is the one who sent the bears. There is no indication that Elisha called the bears down upon them, merely that He spoke a curse (removal of God's protection and blessing), and God is the one who decided how the curse would be fulfilled.\n\nIn my study of this passage, I have concluded that the "children" refered to here are (by other uses of the same Hebrew word) probably young men, and the phrase "Go up, thou baldy" means that they rejected Elisha's ministry as being from God. I read this as an Old Testament parallel of what Jesus refered to as the unpardonable sin in  Matthew 12:31-32.
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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The Covenant with Adam and Eve:\n\nAnd the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Gen 2:14-24 KJV) \n\nThe Covenant with Noah:\nAnd the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the
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MANKIND ADAM\n\nWe all have read about Cain and Abel (Gen.4:8-17)\nHow Cain slew Abel, and God cursed Cain and drove him out.\nThen Cain said (Gen.4:14) “that every one that findeth me shall slay me”\nWho is Cain worried about?\nThen in (Gen.4:17) And Cain knew his wife\nWhere did Cain find a wife?\n\nThe answer is in the Hebrew text (Gen.1:26 and Gen.2:7).\n\nGen.1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, \nafter our likeness: ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( אדם ) \nwith no article means “MANKIND”\nThe word “man” (Gen.1:26) transliterated is (adam).\n\nGen.2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, ….\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) \nin Hebrew text looks like this ( את־האדם ) \nwith article and particle means “THIS SAME MAN ADAM”.\nThe word “man” (Gen.2:7) transliterated is (eth-Ha adham).\n\n\nSo on the sixth day God created or made MANKIND.\n\nOn the eighth day God formed THIS SAME MAN ADAM.
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Cain.\n\nKilled Abel when there were only four people.
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well, there ya go.  what kind of parent would put the crayon drawing made by one of their children up on the frig but not the drawing made by the other?  wouldn't the obvious effect of such favoritism be sibling rivalry?   that Bible god seemed to get some kind of twisted enjoyment out of setting his pet humans against each other.   \n\npoor Cain.  he wasn't Abel.
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Cain and Able were according the Genesis, the sons of Adam and Eve.  \nWith these two you can answer what is the oldest profession with Shepherd and farmer. Each of them offered an offering to God of their labor.  For reasons that are not listed in the Bible, Able, the shepherd had an acceptable offering While Cain's was rejected.  In anger Cain killed Abel. Cain slew Able and was banished.  \n\nThe Biblical family tree of Adam/Eve records a third son, Seth.
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Adam lived 930 years (Gen 5:5)\n\nThey did not meet any people after the expulsion.  If you are refering to Cain "knowing" his wife after he was sent away.  "know" is a euphemism used in the Bible for having sex.  He already had a wife and probably children when he left.  His wife being one of his sisters or cousins.  \n\nFor more clarification visit this site.\n\nhttp://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/cains_wife.asp
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yes there were. remember cain even married his own sister and God gave him a sign on the forehead so he won't be hurt by other people living far from their home. Read Genesis 1-2.
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Ah, that is very astute, and it raises another interesting question doesn't it. \n\nIf Adam and Eve sinned why are we held responsible for an act they committed?  Hardly seems fair, but interestingly this very theme is seen elsewhere in the Bible.\n\nNoah gets drunk and falls asleep.  His son Ham sees his nakedness, but Noah curses Canaan.\n\nDavid commits adultery and murder, but God causes his son to become ill and die.\n\nBTW not atheist.
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I believe that Cain married from the lineage of Adam and Eve from those children Adam begat prior to Cain being cast out (Gen.4:16, Gen.5:3 below).\n\nAdam “begat sons and daughters” (Gen.5:4 below).  Genesis 5:4’s end statement says that that is what Adam did; he begat sons and daughters.\n\nI believe Adam begat sons and daughters from the births of Cain and Abel throughout the one hundred thirty years prior to the birth of Seth (Gen.4:25 below).\n\n\nGen.4:16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.\n\nGen.4:25 And Adam knew his wife again (Gen.5:3 below); and she bare a son, and called his name Seth (Gen.5:3 below): For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.\n\nGen.5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth (Gen.4:25 above):\n\nGen.5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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The land of Nod was originally talked about in a deleted book of the Bible (deleted by the Catholics, I believe), which also contained the story of the first woman, Lilith...\n\nMost Christians have no idea this book exists, and further illustrates my point that if the Christians would simply do a little research on their own faith, they would realize first off how little they have been told of it.\n\nAnd once they realize that, and begin further inquiry, they'll realize WHY they haven't been told.  Welcome to atheism, folks.  Glad you could join us.
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Does it matter? Only the descendants of Seth survived the flood.\nBut to answer your question - He married one of his many unnamed sisters. - The Bible says that he had children in Nod - the Bible does NOT say that he met his wife there.\nThe Bible clearly states that Eve (Cain's mother) is the mother of ALL living, and that Adam and Eve had many children (unnamed sons and daughters) over a period of 800 years (Adam lived for 930 years).
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It doesn't actually say either of these.  These are interpretations made popular by people such as Hal Lindsay in the 1970s. (although you have it slightly wrong, it's 3.5 years of peace and 3.5 years of all hell breaking loose).\n\nThe second part about not giving the land away isn't found anywhere in the Bible.  Biblically, god gave the land away because the Israelites were unfaithfull.  The New Israel of the Bible is a worldwide theocracy, not a resurrection of po dunk middle east Israel.
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Quite...otherwise where did Kane and Abel come from...one of the many contradictions in the Bible...