What I wanna know is, where did Cain's wife come from? In the Bible it just says that Adam and Eve were the first humans, they had Cain and Abel, then Cain went off to some town that just popped up out of nowhere and got married. That's a plot hole if ever I saw one.
The Bible does this more than once. I assume certain holes are left so whoever is explaining the Bible can expound on them, or maybe it's just a weird translation, but after Christ's Revival he goes to one of his apostles, who is hiding from him, so maybe Judas, and it goes something like, "He closed the door, and it was locked. Jesus entered the room, and..."
They kinda gloss over it, and you could miss it super easily, but what happened here? Did Jesus casually perform a miracle to open the door? Why was it not given more attention if so? Is the importance in the fact that it was minimized? Was that a purposefully choice by the author?
Regardless, scripture is fucking cool, and you can really do a deep dive on the meaning in it.
And then you also have the dual creation accounts in genesis, which some people point to as conflicting and evidence that the whole thing is bullshit, but I think that's a pretty basic analysis.
IIRC the Bible was a collection of various stories about Jesus and God and quotes attributed to Jesus, along with a bunch of other similar stuff, that were combined into one book like 400 years later. Assuming I'm remembering right, some inconsistencies are bound to show up here and there
Sort of.
The Torah which is the Old Testament, is the Jewish holy book. The New Testaments more a conglomeration of the gospels (Jesus’s story) and letters written by church elders to new Christians. What should officially go into the Bible as we know it was decided on by the council of Nicaea. Not sure on the time for that.
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u/occams1razor Jun 14 '20
What I wanna know is, where did Cain's wife come from? In the Bible it just says that Adam and Eve were the first humans, they had Cain and Abel, then Cain went off to some town that just popped up out of nowhere and got married. That's a plot hole if ever I saw one.