Ask a room full of believers where Cain got his wife and watch the room go quiet. Skeptics have swung this question like a hammer for centuries, from village debates to courtroom theater, because it sounds like a crack in the very first pages of the Book. And yet Scripture commands us not to duck: sanctify Yahuah Elohim in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. So this lesson takes the question seriously and answers it three ways. First we will read what Genesis itself implies, and it implies...
Ask a room full of believers where Cain got his wife and watch the room go quiet. Skeptics have swung this question like a hammer for centuries, from village debates to courtroom theater, because it sounds like a crack in the very first pages of the Book. And yet Scripture commands us not to duck: sanctify Yahuah Elohim in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. So this lesson takes the question seriously and answers it three ways. First we will read what Genesis itself implies, and it implies more than most people have noticed. Then we will reason honestly, and we will mark plainly where reasoning ends and where the written text stands. And then we will open the books your grandparents' Bibles once sat beside, the book of Jubilees and the book of Jasher, and there we will find that the...