Who is cainan

BUT he himself has never seen, nor can he produce for this hypothetical court of law any such evidence. Do you see how the scholar's game is played? So there you have the thoughts of "scholars" who assume there is no way the Holy Bible can be correct as it stands today, yet they assure us there is really nothing to worry about, and that God's words were once inspired in the "originals", though they have never seen them.

In a somewhat similar fashion, we have the names of two individuals listed in the New Testament, which are not found in the Old Testament. In 2 Timothy we read: "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. This is an interesting verse in light of those who criticize the Holy Bible and tell us it contains errors, isn't it?

It seems, though we are nowhere told this directly, that Jannes and Jambres were probably two of the magicians in Pharoah's court who performed miracles imitating those God did through Moses. Where did Paul get this additional information about the specific names of these individuals? God revealed it to him. The Bible is a supernatural book. Likewise I do not believe that the additional name of Cainan, who is listed as a "son" of Arphaxad is an error in the Holy Bible.

Those who tell us the name Cainan is not in the original have only two manuscripts of very dubious character that either do not contain the name Cainan Manuscript D or, to quote many scholarly articles, "appears not to contain this name" - P It should be noted that neither does manuscript D contain many other whole verses or sections of Luke's gospel, though found in the others. Manuscript D is notorious for adding large sections to the gospel of Luke which are not found in any other manuscript, and D is also well known for omitting other large portions of Luke's gospel.

One example of many that could be provided is the additional reading found in manuscript D, also known as Codex Bezae, in Luke Then D alone adds: "On the same day seeing some one working on the Sabbath, He said to him: man, if you know what you do, blessed are you; but if you do not know, you are cursed and a transgressor of the law.

Manuscript D also omits all of Luke "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do. Not very reliable, is it? As for P75, not only does it "appear" to omit the name Cainan from Luke , but P75 also is missing all of Luke to ! It also is missing Luke to ; to ; to ; ; ; , and from Luke all the way to Luke !

Such is the scant evidence for the omission of the name Cainan from the gospel of Luke So how do we explain who this man Cainan is? In Luke 3 we read of the lineage of the Lord Jesus from the side of Mary. There we see "Heber, which was the son of Sala Salah , which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem Shem , which was the son of Noah In the Bible, the words "begat" and "son" do not necessarily imply a direct father to son relationship.

Hence, instead of reading of only one Cainan, what we read today is two Cainans:. Many are quick to point out that the Septuagint the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament mentions the name Cainan, and thus verifies that he was the son of Arphaxad, just as Luke indicates.

The problem with this line of defense is that the oldest Septuagint manuscripts do not include this reference to Cainan Sarfati, , p. He goes on to state that it also was left out of the Vatican copy of the Septuagint p. And as we have discussed in other articles, errors made by copyists do not represent legitimate Bible contradictions.

Fairbairn, P. Hasel, Gerhard F. Sarfati, Jonathan D. Published May 26, Print Share Tweet Email. The rabbinical tradition was that he first introduced idol- worship and astrology — a tradition which the Hellenists transferred to the postdiluvian Cainan. The origin of the tradition is not known; but it may probably have been suggested by the meaning of the supposed root in Arabic and the Arammean dialects, just as another signification of the same root seems to have suggested the tradition that the daughters of Cain were the first who made and sang to musical instruments Gesenius, Thesaur.

His name is Anglicized "Kenan" in the Auth. The son of Arphaxad, and father, of Sala, according to Lu , and usually called the second Cainan. He is also found in the present copies of the Sept. And he died. And Cainan lived years, and begat Salah, And Cainan lived after he begat Salah years, and begat sons and daughters.

And he died" , and 1Ch though he is omitted in 1Ch , but is nowhere named in the Hebrew text, nor in ally of the versions made from it, as the Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac, Vulgate, etc. As the addition of his generation of 10 years in the series of names is of great chronological importance, and is one of the circumstances which render the Septuagint computation of time longer than the Hebrew, this matter has engaged much attention, and has led to great discussion among chronologers.

Some have suggested that the Jews purposely excluded the second Cainan from their copies, with the design of rendering the Septuagint and Luke suspected; others that Moses omitted Cainan, being desirous of reckoning ten generations only from Adam to Noah, and from Noah to, Abraham.