Question:
Hi Greg,
I
think your ministry is great, but some Q&A’s sparked my attention.
The first is if Adam and Eve were the only ones created, then why does
Cain say in Genesis 4:14-15 “whoever finds me will kill me”?
When he is banished, and in the “land of Nod” (4:16) he meets his
wife? Do you think it’s possible
that God created other human beings, possibly other human races, since it does
not state Adam had any daughters?
Second,
dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible (Leviathan in Isaiah) and fossils have been
found with dinosaur and human footprints side by side.
Could the reason for a lot of the fossils seeming to be older be because
of the effects of the flood accelerating the process?
Thanks,
Daniel
Answer: Dear Daniel,
First,
Cain was not the only son—or child--of Adam and Eve.
Genesis 5:4 says that Adam lived 800 years and had “sons and
daughters”. Cain and other sons
of Adam married their sisters—not appropriate at any other time, but logical
and necessary given the biblical fact that Adam and Eve were the first humans
created. No other creation of
humans is mentioned in the Bible. There
is no logical need to speculate about another human creation.
Many
essays and books have been written about dinosaurs.
There are many possibilities about when and how they were created and
existed. They do not exist now. They
do not appear to have existed alongside of Adam and Eve or their ancestors.
There is no mention of them on the ark.
Most
serious Bible students believe that dinosaurs existed before human creation.
The alleged footprints of dinosaurs and humans, side by side, do not
share the same scholarship or serious evidence of the fact that this earth is
several billions of years old. Human
beings share only a fraction of that history.
Therefore, human creation was after the general creation.
That’s the clear evidence available through science and sound biblical
interpretation.
In
Christ,
Greg
Albrecht