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[[Ron Abel]], in ''Wrested Scriptures'', says that there were no other humans outside Adam's family, and therefore he must have been afraid of "his brethren". See at [[Beliefs about humans before Adam#YECs]] for an outline of his reasoning. | [[Ron Abel]], in ''Wrested Scriptures'', says that there were no other humans outside Adam's family, and therefore he must have been afraid of "his brethren". See at [[Beliefs about humans before Adam#YECs]] for an outline of his reasoning. | ||
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There were no pre-Adamites in the earth at the time of Adam. This is indicated from the following: | There were no pre-Adamites in the earth at the time of Adam. This is indicated from the following: | ||
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NRSV
14 Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”
15 Then the LORD said to him, “Not so![a] Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him. (NRSV)
[a] Gk Syr Vg: Heb Therefore
KJV
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. (KJV)
Of whom was Cain afraid? See Biblical evidence that people are not descended from a single male ancestor. — Bruce
Ron Abel, in Wrested Scriptures, says that there were no other humans outside Adam's family, and therefore he must have been afraid of "his brethren". See at Beliefs about humans before Adam#YECs for an outline of his reasoning.
There were no pre-Adamites in the earth at the time of Adam. This is indicated from the following:
"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." (Genesis 2:20). Two questions arise:
Why only the mention of beasts which Adam named, if pre-Adamite humans existed?
Why no mention of pre-Adamite women?
Jesus, in reply to the Pharisees' question on divorce, said, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?" (Matt. 19:4-5). Jesus states that the "making" was from the "beginning of creation". (Mark 10:6). This is not the kind of language to describe the gradual evolution of man over a 30,000 year period.
Until the creation of Adam, the narrative states: "there was not a man to till the ground". (Gen. 2:5). Would this be true if there were other man-like creatures?
Adam and Eve "begat sons and daughters". (Gen. 5:4). Cain would, therefore, fear death at the hands of his brethren.
