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Subject: Random?? Comments
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 09:48:11 EST
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Micha Berger!  Love it.  Foreskins indeed.  

Cain's wife and all those other guys not mentioned in Genesis:

           I can't figure out if those who ask where Cain's wife came from are
merely stupid or only unsophisticated and educated beyond their IQ.

           I KNOW they don't read other things with the same standards they
claim must be used when reading the Bible!  Just because the writer doesn't
give her history doesn't mean there's a problem.  Some Christians do the same
thing when reading Genesis by seeing only Cain and Able and Adam and Eve becasuethat's all the writer mentions.  You know, Adam's first children, or only
children were Cain and Able.  NO ONE, WHEN TELLING A STORY, FILLS IN ALL THE
DETAILS!!!!  We'd be here all night!  

           Look, what sense does the limiting of the results of Adam and Eve's
sin by greatly increasing her fertility, now they have to WORK the land to 
survive, if they had no children prior to the 'fall'????  Eve would turn to
Adam and say, "What's he TALKING about???"  I think it highly likely from
reading the account in Genesis that a whole raft of people followed Eve in
eating the forbidden fruit, whatever it actually was (King James says apple
only because they don't know - for a good analogy for this 'test' see the
book by C.S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet and the temptation pictured
there on a new virgin planet, but I digress)  and so I picture a crowd of
people being 'cast out' of Eden.  Do you really think that Adam and Eve
who would seem to already HAVE the great COSMIC ORGANISM and it's relation-
ship we all rummage for would not have children?????  Sayyyy.  Ask me to
believe in something a little less far out please.

           The same kind of thing 'works' for the sacrifice required by God
after the 'fall' of Cain and Able.  How did they KNOW what was right and
what was wrong to bring?  Gee, it doesn't tell us.  Does that mean God was
pretty hard on Cain?  Remember he brought veggies and an animal was required.


Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt