Who lived in Nod?

Answer 1

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Nod was, as stated above, the place to where Cain was banished after he committed the murder of his brother Abel. The only thing that can be known at present about Cain is that we have a biblical account which indicates this is the place to which he was banished, although we are not able to specifically identify this place at present.

Over 5000 times The Bible has proven to be completely accurate in what it states by archaeological discoveries. These accuracies have been documented in a multi-volume work by Dr. Clifford Wilson. So, although there is no specific evidence relating to Cain at this present time does not indicate he was a mythical figure as is sometimes claimed. Many of the 5000 discoveries were also previously believed to be mythical but actually turned out to be fact.

Stating something is mythical is actually based on an invalid argument from silence. There is actually no evidence that Cain was a myth or that the story is meant to be taken any other way than literally. The genre of Hebrew in the account is one of historical narrative and so it is also obviously intended to be understood that Cain was both a real person and that he went to a real locality called Nod. Many other ancient places have previously remained unknown, such as the kingdom of the Hittites, until discovered by Archaeology and also in the process verifying the accuracy of the Bible.

In the case of Cain, it is likely the scant details we have are true and correct as they stand. This is a matter of simple logic based on the track record of the Bible which according to archaeologists has never been refuted by one single piece of factual evidence. Thus it is quite likely that the skeptical views of 19th century scholars, of the same family from which ideas spring that Cain was either a myth or allegory, may well themselves be regarded as myth, since they have no evidence to support them, unlike the biblical record as a whole.

Dr Henry M Morris in The Genesis Record (pages 144-145) comments that Cain may have been defying God's sentence that he would be a wanderer upon the earth by building a city. Morris states that the name of Cain's firstborn Enoch means 'dedication or 'commencement' both signifying that he was here beginning a new life away from his former one near Eden. Morris also points out that the word 'Nod' itself means 'wandering', Cain thus in the name of the city either defying God's prophecy or else remembering by this name God's sentence upon him.

Morris also notes in connection with Cain's building a city, that this is one of the identifying features anthropologists use for the beginning of civilization. Thus Cain, in the very next generation after Adam demonstrated that he was fully human and fully civilized as Adam of course was, his murderous act upon Abel notwithstanding. Response to Answer 2 Ok ok, if the Bible has been proven completely accurate 5000 times, why don't you tell us just 100 of them. It can be any one hundred, but I would like you to at least tell me where is the evidence for the Garden of Eden.

Answer 2

According to Genesis chapter 4, Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, to live in the land of Nod. Here, his wife gave birth to a baby whom they called Enoch, so Cain built a city and named it Enoch after his child.
However, many scholars believe that the story of Cain and Abel is a myth. S. H. Hooke (Middle Eastern Mythology) shows a clear parallel between the biblical account and an older middle eastern myth in which Tammuz had to choose between the shepherd-god and the farmer-god. The stories of Cain and Abel are simply myths that are not meant to be understood literally. Thus, we need not wonder where the land of Nod was, nor puzzle over the construction of a city, when the entire population of the world was still only one patriarch and his surviving son, Cain, along with their wives and Cain's child.