None of these were children of the devil, seed of the serpent, or they would have never been washed, sanctified, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. It's not even in the context of the passage.
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Was Cain the first baby ever born?
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None of these were children of the devil, seed of the serpent, or they would have never been washed, sanctified, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. It's not even in the context of the passage.
Ben1445
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Actually, it is very much the context.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
So Paul says that the unrighteous don’t inherit the kingdom of God and that they were the unrighteous. So they were in the category that doesn’t inherit the kingdom of God, but now they’re not in that category, and they do inherit the kingdom of God. It is definitely the context.
Text implies Cain was first born son. I guess there could have been daughters. Cain and Able were not twins according to the plain reading of the text. For some reason, Rabinic tradition says they were.
searchingtruths
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I'll reply to the bonus question first I personally believe Cain and Abel were twins but they were twins by two separate seeds _ Cain the seed of the devil - Abel the seed of Adam. Many dispute this and it seems different Hebrew words are used which is correct, modern day is against the Strong's definition using the word seduce and even added morally to it. Did not Jesus say Cain is of the wicked one (the devil). godrules.net/library/strongs2a/heb5377.htm https://share.google/rsnENWdIIL4SuUwts
1 John 3:12 (King James Version)
"Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteou
s."
Is it possible to be impregnated with twins by two different fathers, yes it is.
Being pregnant with twins by two different biological fathers is called heteropaternal superfecundation.
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The first commandment God gave Adam and Eve were to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth...... Yet ministers don't teach that they obey this commandment before their fall, why.... The second commandment was not to eat of the tree of knowledge...... They had access to the Tree of Life which according to Genesis 3:22 they had a form of immortality, in Revelations it tells that the fruit and the leaves is for healing of the Nations.
God gave them access to the Tree of Life why would they not eat of the fruit, why would they eat of every other tree except the tree of life _ makes no sense to me that they wouldn't and ministers teach they did not eat from the Tree of Life.
I believe they had many, many, many children before their fall and these children migrated to other lands - one mentioned in Scripture is the Land of Nod. And in those days they named the land after the settler.
God put a curse on the woman which also indicates she already had bore children and the sorrow was not great - like when an animal gives birth - which is very, very different than the pain human females indure.
"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
I believe Cain and Abel were the first two children born to Adam and Eve AFTER their fall. Which not only explains the Land of Nod but it also explains the people Cain feared with slay him and God commanded them not to..... The entire Bible except the first three chapters is based on after the fall of Adam.
To support the Earth is only 6,000 years old, one would have to teach us the teachings taught for the past hundreds of years. Meaning Adam sinned at the very beginning. If this was so and Cain and Abel were the first two born to Adam and Eve there would be no other people no named land. Seth was the recorded third born and it wasn't until long after Seth that it is recorded *daughters* and sons were born. No mention of daughters - it is just taken for granted Adam and Eve had daughters old enough for Cain to marry.