After cain kills abel and settles in the land of nod, we read that cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore enoch. Despite the fact that we have regularly addressed this issue in numerous books, articles, and presentations, the issue of cains wife is still one of the most common questions we receive. We see in the bible in genesis 3 where adam and eve were cursed and sent out of the garden of eden. I read question 255, about intermarrying among adam and eves children and i did not see any proofs from the quran nor in the hadith. The bible does say that adam and eve had other children besides cain and abel genesis 5. Therefore marrying a close relation in the early years after creation would not have resulted in genetic dangers. The scrutiny of the story of cain and abel in the quran is significant not only because it displays the results of muhammads erroneous and unlimited plagiarism from the sources of judaism, but also because it explains how islamic tradition gave birth to new legends and stories that aimed to counter the original legends and fables of. According to politico, a spokesman for the cains church described gloria as a very private person who has remained active in the church since the.
Some traditional interpretations consider cain to be the originator of evil, violence, or greed. Skeptics have pointed out that the only viable solution to the problem of cains wife cain marrying his sister suffers from theological problems, since close relations were not allowed to marry according to jewish law. In order to answer this question of where cain got his wife, we first need to cover some background information concerning the meaning of the gospel. Of course, there was one earlier wife than cains wife, but that earlier wife s nature was different than an ordinary human wife s nature. October 27, 2014 richard ostling patheos explore the worlds faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality. Travis shaffer, pastor of greenvale baptist church in gray station tn. The reason why we ask more questions about cains wife than, about say, the wives of kenan, or jared, or methuselah is because cains wife was the first wife in the fallen world. No doubt it was one of these daughters that cain took for a wife. When he overcame his sorrow he cohabited and allah gave him a son, shith who was born a single child. Skeptics of the bible have used cains wife time and again to discredit the book of genesis as a true historical record. Thus, believers need to be able to account for cains wife and show clearly she was a descendant of adam and eve. The narrative never explicitly states cains motive for murdering his brother, nor gods reason for rejecting cains sacrifice, nor details on the identity of cains wife. And cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore enoch. Later in genesis 5 adam and eve had sons and daughters so he evidently married his sister.
Sadly, most christians have not given an adequate answer to this question. If human origins began with one couple, adam and eve, how did cain find a wife. The nature of the question, if you dont know, is that, according to the bible, when cain kabil killed abel abil, he is sent by god to the land of nod, where he finds a wife. Seth, in judaism, christianity, mandaeism, sethianism, and islam, was the third son of adam and eve and brother of cain and abel, their only other children. Does islam have an answer to the cains wife question. According to genesis, cain was the first human born and abel was the first to. The book of genesis tells us that adam and eve had two sons, cain and abel. Marriage of adams sons to his daughters at the beginning of creation. Adam was very shocked that he cried for five hundred years and did not touch his wife. Qabil and habil are believed by muslims to have been the first two sons of adam arabic.