Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: awmurray@eos.ncsu.edu (ALAN WAYNE MURRAY) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: no title given Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:46:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , emory!dragon!cms@gatech.edu writes: > [In a discussion of the plausibility of early accounts in Gen, > Alan Murray mentioned the fact that Cain would have had to > marry his sister. --clh] > > For what it's worth, I remember from my Sunday School class that Cain > obtained a wife in the same way that Adam did -- from his rib. God > caused a deep sleep to come up on Cain, removed his rib, and created > Cain's wife, who dwelt with him in the land of Nod. This is a > tradition of the Church and seems to me to be the most plausible > explanation. > > -- > Sincerely, > Cindy I have been told that I have "read into" the Bible, and made a bad assumption that God did not make more people. Now, would someone please explain why the type of argument presented here is any less guilty of "reading into" the Bible? In my case, I assume that since The Bible does not mention other people that there were none. This is no more a 'bad assumption' than the one presented here wherin one must ADD text to make an assumption. --alan [Recall that Cindy is speaking from a tradition that considers church tradition as a source of revelation on the same footing as the Bible. I suspect those you are referring to were not. --clh]