Tuesday, September 9, 2008
God's wonderful Word
Brain teaser: One of the great puzzles of Genesis is this: Where did (unknown) get his wife?
Answer: Cain, son of Adam and Eve. Genesis 4:17 refers to Cain’s wife, but readers wonder where she came from, seeing that the only people on earth (or at least the only ones mentioned in Genesis) were Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. The usual explanation-not that it satisfies everyone-is that Cain’s wife was also his sister, a daughter (whose name is not disclosed) of Adam and Eve.
The above question and answer was taken from the book “The Complete Book of Bible Secrets and Mysteries” by J.Stephen Lang, which I have borrowed from NLB lately in an attempt to learn more about the Bible. Is your mind boggled now? Mine was. After reading Genesis for a few times, I never ever ponder too much about the origin of anyone in the Bible and coming across this question does make me realise that there is much more to God’s Word, the Bible that we do not know about.
God’s Word is indeed amazing. Sometimes we read of things like dragons, the mysterious Leviathan [as described in the book of Job] or even unicorns [only in older versions of translations]. The main issue is the original language of the Bible is Hebrew and it is notoriously difficult to learn and translate even after many centuries [Thank God for translators and our translated versions of the Bible]. Thus, many things are still not known to us.
With regard to the author’s answer, I don’t agree with him as certain parts of the Bible are not mentioned in chronological order. The bottom-line is, though the Bible is very mysterious, it is very literal and very easy to grasp. Instead of being bothered by parts that we don’t understand, we should be concerned with the parts that we did understand, e.g. loving God wholeheartedly and loving people fervently. The author also said that most of the Bible isn’t written in code. As for the mysteries, I feel that we should just apply Deut 29:29 in our lives whereby the secret things belong to God and we should just leave it as it is [no code-breakers required].
Meanwhile, I shall go back to Paul and his adventurous mission trips in the book Acts.
Disclaimer: The Word of God cannot be broken, is infallible and has no contradiction [2 Tim 3:16-17]. This is not a post to stir up dissension or anything but rather, this is to spark greater interest in God’s Word :)
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