Talk about limited options!

When I asked a nun where the "land of Nod" was and how did it get populated by people if Adam and Eve were the first people and their kids the first. Somehow I was supposed to get an answer through osmosis of a scolding for questioning the bible, a letter sent home to my mom about my asking strange questions and studying a corner in one of the classrooms.

It didn't work and I still don't have an answer.

Just another bit of fiction they choose to ignore.
Pretty much like all of the rest of it.

Meh. Who needs logic, it just gets in the way of a good mythology. Although actually, this one isn't all that good.

An earlier book of the Christian Bible was removed . Adam's first wife was Lilith , according to the Hebrew version . Adam did not like that she was his equal . According to archeology , there were several different humanoid groups , ours not being the first . Neanderthal and Denisans being just two other groups , but not the last .

So with Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and possibly auntie Lilith being the only humans on earth, who built the town?
Did God build it and have them sent out on a sort of scavenger hunt with getting married being the prize?

Well my racist grandfather explained it to me. He said when they went out to the Land of Nod they married monkeys and that's where black people came from. Of course that actually could be used to justify the fact that we all came from Africa and we all have the same ancestors.

I immediately asked him where white people came from and he said Adam and Eve had more children. I was young enough the concept of incest never occurred to me.

That's what got me in trouble with the nun teaching this story to our catechism class in 2nd grade. I couldn't understand how the world got populated if Adam and Eve, had children, wouldn't the children (brothers and sisters) have to marry each other? Whack with the ruler, right on my hand! Got me thinking about why I was being asked to pay attention - I'd have been better off not listening at all and just reciting what they asked.

I was about 9 years old when I read that and I was scratching my head. I asked around, but no one could explain it.

Such a work of fiction. Not at all sophisticated. The Bible is a wreck of a publication. That’s what you get when you let a different guy write every chapter. One always tries to outdo the rest.

This all points to the bible being a collection of myths and there is some sort of moral lesson to be learned between all the metaphors... Did "God" create Adam and Eve by selecting them from their respective towns and put them in a garden where they were to live by his rule?

Eve was curious, Adam and Eve reproduced, their children sought wives from yonder land of Nod, and God's experiment wasn't as successful as desired? What would have happened to the human race if it had stopped in the Garden of Eden? We all know life was going on all over the globe by then... so what's to be learned from such a story? That God was a failure?

Who knows what the purpose was, if there was one, it's surely lost nowadays. Cain and Abel could surely find wives on Harmony or Match - who knows maybe even on Agnostic?

There were Goats everywhere.

Dave Allen on Religion Adam and Eve!! 1970's

So many competing legends of Cain - he was a giant, a spawn of Satan ( Eve fucking around); Married his sister and moved away, starting a multitude of other peoples (usually people of dark skin); Lived to over 700 years old and had multiple evil children, and then died when his stone house fell on him (he killed Abel with a stone); he fathered a number of children, including Enoch, who god so liked that "he walked with god" (went to heaven without dying) (also, the Ethiopian bible includes two books of Enoch) ; and more possibilities.

And each other

At least it wasn't a family reunion lol

Yeah because they weren't the first , those who had a different religion were so called mud people

They found a burning bush of the wrong kind? Can I caption this meme? "You know what, Able? You're kind of cute."

wisdom is indeed hidden from the wise in their own eyes

One woman in the world for them, so they fought over her. That is why Cain slew Able. Makes more sense than he was jealous of his brother's sacrifice since we see some men kill over women. (Shh, don't break the magic like when reading any other fiction.)