Without Excuse: Apologetics Blog

If the human population only started out with two people, Adam and Eve, where did Cain get his wife? The most obvious answer is, Cain married his sister (gasp). Marrying blood relatives is a social taboo today, but there's no reason to believe it was a social taboo in our antediluvian past. The Bible only mentions three named children belonging to Adam and Eve: Cain, Able, and Seth, all male children. But Genesis 5:4 says that Adam had sons and daughters. Clearly then, Adam and Eve had other children that were not specifically mentioned. So, let's take a speculative journey of how many children Adam could have fathered. I used ChatGPT to help me work out the hypotheticals. We have a lot of unknown variables such as how long did Eve live? How long were her childbearing years? How long would she have waited to conceive between children? We can only guess here, so we're never going to know the exact numbers. For the sake of this discussion, let's make some assumptions. Let...

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Gen 3:1) Everyone by now is familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, and how Eve was tricked by a talking snake into eating the forbidden fruit from the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The most obvious question is how can a snake talk? The next question should be, why was Eve not surprised by a talking snake? The key to answering this question is found in the Hebrew word for serpent, "nachash". As a noun nachash means "snake" or "serpent". That may be obvious, but it is often overlooked that Lucifer aka Satan is often referred to as a serpent and a dragon (i.e. reptile), for example: So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out wit...