One Blood Book Review

Where did Cain get his wife?

The entire human race descends from Adam. Romans 5:12

Adam was the first man. Gen 2:7; 1 Cor 15:45

Cain had a wife. Genesis 4:17

Cain had sisters. Genesis 5:4 Josephus wrote, “The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.”

Was it immoral for Cain to marry his sister?

Abraham married his half-sister (Gen 20:12).

God’s command not to marry immediate family members did not come until 400 years after Abraham (Lev 18-20).

Since God’s command not to intermarry probably relates to sickness and deformities that resulted from increasing mutations, it is logical to conclude that the command not to intermarry is God’s mercy at work. Further, it is reasonable to conclude that with minimal mutations early on, that’s why God did not forbid intermarriage right after creation.

Natural Selection and Speciation

“Darwin’s work supported the view that all living things have developed into the forms we see today by a process of gradual change over long periods of time” (statement by the Natural History Museum of London).

God made each animal (and plant) “according to their kinds” (e.g., Gen 1:25).

Consider the following basic principles of genetics applied to the dog/wolf “kind.”

A dog/wolf has tens of thousands of genes.

Every dog ever born inherits two copies of each gene — one from each parent.

The Human Race? or Many Races?

Where do the observable differences in the “race” come from?

Skin color, hair color, eye shape, nose shape, etc.

Statistically, there is very little difference from one human being to another.

Beauty isn’t the only thing that’s skin deep.

Bottlenecks at the Flood Event and the Tower of Babel Event, with Babel splintering the one, human race into various people groups.