Answers about Cain

In John 8:44 who was Jesus talking to when he said, “You belong to your father the devil”?

Jesus is talking to a group of Jews including some Pharisees (John 8:13) and possibly other Jewish leaders (John 8:22 NET). He had said to them “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. [...]

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Was Cain the seed of the serpent in Genesis 3:15?

Genesis 3:15 is what God said to the snake in Eden: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” That is, there would be enmity between snakes and humans from then on. Humans would try to [...]

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Who are the six demons Cain, Nero, Judas, Legion, Belial and Lucifer?

These six “demons” are from the film “The exorcism of Emily Rose”. Although all the names are found in the Bible, the idea that they are six demons is not biblical. Cain was the son of Adam and Eve. He killed his brother Abel and was consequently punished. (Genesis 4:1-24). Nero was emperor of Rome [...]

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How do you account for human remains that are dated to be at least 50,000 years old?

The difficulty here is that the date of Adam can be calculated from genealogical information in the Bible to be approximately 6000 years ago, or possibly a little longer. So human remains that are much older than that cannot have been descendants of Adam. There are three major views that attempt to account for this [...]

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Cain is not mentioned in the genealogy of Adam – Why?

The genealogy of Cain is given briefly in Genesis 4:17-24. However, this was not the line that led from Adam to Noah, and all other lines of descendants were destroyed in the flood – including Cain’s descendants. The genealogy of Adam goes through his son Seth to Noah (Genesis 5:3-32) and this is the part [...]

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Did God create other people besides Adam and Eve?

The description of the creation of human beings in Genesis implies that Adam and Eve were the only ones that God created. Adam couldn’t find a suitable helper (Genesis 2:20 — suggesting there were no other human beings around) and Eve is described as “the mother of all the living” (Genesis 3:20). Similarly, in the [...]

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Why wasn’t God pleased with Cain’s offering?

This question is about the events in Genesis 4, especially v3-5: {3} In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, {4} and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his [...]

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Who did Cain marry?

In Genesis chapter 2 we are told that God created one man (Adam) and one woman (Eve).  Adam is reported as having sons and daughters in Genesis 5:4.  Cain must have married one of these or another close relative descended from Adam.  By the time Adam died, he not only had children and grand-children, but [...]

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