{"id":19491,"date":"2019-02-05T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:08:18","slug":"cains-wife-where-did-she-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/cains-wife-where-did-she-come-from","title":{"rendered":"Cain\u2019s Wife: Where Did She Come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19495\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cain-abel-salerno-cathedral-louvre-11th-c-775x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cain-abel-salerno-cathedral-louvre-11th-c-775x396.jpg 775w, https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cain-abel-salerno-cathedral-louvre-11th-c-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cain-abel-salerno-cathedral-louvre-11th-c.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She would have to be another descendant of Adam\u2019s \u2013 a sister or cousin to Cain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Incest? So it seems. We should ask, though: Is incest sin because it reinforces accumulated genetic defects, causing much more likely birth defects? Or is it sin because God says so in Leviticus 18?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That matters \u2014 because if we choose to read Genesis as history, then Adam and Eve were created fresh with no genetic defects. It would have taken many, many generations for genetic drift to have got to a place where siblings or cousins risk deformed children when they marry. And the law forbidding incest doesn\u2019t come along until thousands of years later, in Moses\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So if it\u2019s a genetic issue, no problem; by the time Cain marries, Adam and Eve and all their descendants have been happily reproducing without birth defects for decades or centuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And if it\u2019s a legalistic issue, still no problem, because that law doesn\u2019t exist yet in Genesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She would have to be another descendant of Adam\u2019s \u2013 a sister or cousin to Cain. Incest? So it seems. We should ask, though:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[7,3],"class_list":["post-19491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthodox-wisdom","tag-personal-thoughts-on-orthodoxy","tag-qa-with-an-orthodox-priest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cain-abel-salerno-cathedral-louvre-11th-c.jpg","views":{"total":268,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1767833733},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-54n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19523,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions\/19523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}