His parents getting old, and Cain all alone, he traveled to the city of Nod to find a wife. Genesis.

Not exactly. Read Genesis 4. Cain didn't go to the CITY of Nod, he went to the LAND of Nod. Remember that Genesis was written by Moses in the 13th or 14th century BC, hundreds of years after these events, so political boundaries would have expanded considerably by then.

Also, it does not say Cain married in Nod, it just says he went there and he and his wife had Enoch. It doesn't say if he was married before or after fleeing to Nod.

There is also no reason to believe that Adam, Eve, and Cain were the only ones alive after Abel's murder. Cain even says, "whoever finds me will kill me", heavily implying that there were others by then

Ok, got me on city vs land on scripture I read once 2 or 3 years ago. My bad. I hope I don't get smote over this.

Point still stands. Adam. Eve. Cain. That's it, those were the first, last, and only people on Earth. Maybe he married his unmentioned sister, maybe he married his unmentioned daughter, maybe he married his mother and then they went to the LAND of Nod and found a whole bunch of people already living there created by the other gods in their spare time. Eternity can get pretty damn boring.

It's called a myth for a reason. It's a fairy tale.
Making sense, maintaining consistency, and being at least somewhat related to basic logic is not its priority.

It's a little sus that Cain didn't need to go find a wife until after knocking off Abel...

In the summer that I was baptized
My father held me to his side
As they put me to the water
He said how on that day I cried

We were prisoners of love, a love in chains
He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain
With the same hot blood burning in our veins

Adam raised a Cain
Adam raised a Cain
Adam raised a Cain
Adam raised a Cain

There's no reason to believe that Adam, Eve, and Cain were the only people on Earth after Abel's murder. There is also no reason to believe that the area known as "the land of Nod" in the 13th or 14th century BC was inhabited when Cain fled there

Exactly, there's no reason, no reason at all to believe any of it because it's a fairytale in which the glaring gaps and contradictions are 'repaired' by the 'faithfull' who have never been to Temple one single time in their life, let alone on the Sabbath, and gleefully partake of pork and dress in mixed fabrics and have no aversion to using the toilet on a Saturday yada yada yada

Welll... you know... with the advent of Fire Fajitas Friday certain sacrifices need be made.

The struggle is real.

The best part of that is that it never occurred to God that holding it in means extra work for the sphincter muscles. So hardly that much rest on that front.

The fact is that text never says nor remotely implies that Nod was an existing city, that people lived there, that Cain got married in Nod, or that Adam, Eve, and Cain were the only people in existence. Nothing about your meme is a valid criticism. It is 100% a strawman regardless of your other objections

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Okay but the text never says that Nod was an existing city, that people lived there, that Cain got married in Nod, or that Adam, Eve, and Cain were the inky people in existence. Nothing about your meme is a valid criticism. It is 100% a strawman"

⬛ Hey, nothing beats a Strawman other than a Ping-Pong Strawman, right? Goose/Gander?
I feel so ashamed. Tasting my own medicine, such bitter pills to swallow.

The text also says nothing about the hypotheticals you supplied either, and you've actually read it. Today.

Yes, I got that. Nod was not a city. You said that already. A lot.
The word probably means it wasn't even an actual place, for that matter - more a reference to wandering around the land, an action rather than a location. It wasn't on the map then, and it isn't on the map now, then again, neither was/is Eden. We remember the names of the players, but somebody forgot to remember where the center of creation was located.

Cain killed Abel, Seth wasn't born till round a century later, so Cain got lonely coincidentally coinciding with when God decided to give him the boot out of the Eden that everybody was already cast out of a couple of chapters prior[?], so he went off to Nod so that he may knoweth his wife that popped out of thin air and then built a city so he could name it after their son. And they lived unhappily ever after until Noah was born 91 years after Seth was because God is love. Something like that.

This repeatedly repeated repetitious repetition repeatedly on repeat begins to bore me a lot?

How have I strawmanned your argument?

Maybe God did another creation a few miles down the road. 😏

naah, I was convinced above by the one who corrected me on Nod not being a city. Basically Adam and Eve lived for 900 years, and Cain just procreated with his mother Eve and sprung a city from her loins that way. And his own wife, which was thus technically his daughter as well.