With Homosexuality being a sin, I wondered how was this world created? Starting from Adam and Eve going forth can someone explain how homosexuality and incest was left out of human creation?
2006-06-13 09:20:58 · 69 answers · asked by hope_713 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All the kid would have had to had sex with each other, and their parents.
2006-06-13 09:29:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain (Genesis 4:1), Abel (Genesis 4:2), Seth (Genesis 4:25), and many other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4). With hundreds of years of child-bearing capability, Adam and Eve likely had 50+ children in their lifetime.
But then if you think about it, we are all children of Adam and Eve.
Adam and Steve have yet to bear fruit, but they weren't left out of human creation at all. Homosexuality is a completely natural phenomenon (meaning it isn't a choice). There are plenty of animals that demonstrate homosexuality as well as polyamory and even incest.
Obviously, early man discovered that incest could have a serious negative impact on the viabiity of children (think of Siamese twins, etc.). Either that, or it's just an inate instinct. We have many instincts, just as we weren't given an instruction manual with our 'equipment'. So, if homosexuality and polyamory and incest happen today, then they must have been seeded in the 'human condition' from the very beginning.
At the most extreme, some people liken these conditions to mental illness. Psychological illness, whether it is physical or not, is not equated with sin. Sometimes these people can integrate with society and lead productive lives, just as many homosexuals do. Of course, incest should be eschewed because there are very real consequences to be avoided.
(sound of stylus being yanked from vinyl record)
Hold on a minute...
A. God = imagined superbeing
B. Adam/Eve/various kids = metaphor for birth of human-kind
C. Homosexuality = NOT a sin, no sin is possible (see C.)
D. Gay marriage = NO effect on 'traditional marriage'
E. Bible = book of stories, nice but irrelevant
2006-06-13 09:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain was the first mention. Adam and Eve probably had hundreds of children. The Bible say "many other", but no number is given.
In the beginning the gene pool was not corrupted by mutations. The children inter-married, it was okay back then. It was not against the law for another near 2000 years. Adam and Eve had all the genetic information necessary to give us all the people we see today. It was not incest back then. These were very different people than what you see today.
2006-06-13 09:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While Cain and Abel are the only siblings listed from Adam and Eve, they did have other children. In Biblical times it was customary to marry within family bounds so as to protect the family line. At that point in time man was genetically pure so that wasn't an issue. The Bible doesn't fill in all the gaps of human population, that wasn't pertinent to what God was trying to convey to us in Genesis.
Homosexuality wasn't left out, it wasn't a part of creation, the Bible clearly defined that woman was made for man and man for woman, and explicitly points out that homosexuality is sin.
2006-06-13 09:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by joebrainer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain and Abel are the two sons mentioned in the bible but it is believed by many that there were multiple other children born of Adam and Eve. Incest would not have been able to be avoided however for the obvious reasons that are our instincts just tell us to reproduce. God made sex a good feeling for this purpose. Science tells us that only humans and dolphins have sex for pleasure and all other species of animals have sex simply to reproduce. It is my theory that in the beginning, God simply made human kind as another animal whose basic instinct was to reproduce. However due to there only being 2 people to begin with, incest was not able to be avoided.
Going off of that subject, the great flood is believed by some to have another starting point where incest was unavoidable. In this case however, Noah and his three sons all had wives that they brought with on the ark and therefore the 8 of them were able to reproduce outside of brother/sister relations. It was the next generation of cousins in which incest would have been unavoidable yet again.
2006-06-13 09:33:33 · answer #5 · answered by sweetguy_184 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we all know and agree that homosexuality is not a choice( some may disagree and i don't know why). It has always been a part of human society. So i guess people who does not like it would not put it in a book or acknowledge its existence. The point is everything that is man made can be influenced by so many factors like hatred, greed, ignorance ..etc . Thus, we should think instead of following what others are preaching to the world.
2006-06-13 09:33:03 · answer #6 · answered by prince charming 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had two sons that I know of, Able and Seth.
Able was killed by his half-brother Cain who was of Eve but not of Adam. Cain and Able were not identical twins. Their physical descriptions should make that clear.
Since Adam was created AFTER the 7 days of creation (I know you don't believe me, but read it again and it might be so obvious you don't know how you ever missed it.), there were most definitely other people created prior to him. That said, there were documented cases of incest.
2006-06-13 09:36:46 · answer #7 · answered by Automation Wizard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they had 2 actually, Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel though. It is very clear though that they did have sex with tere sisters and cousins back then because that was the only way to populate the earth. By the way it is legal still in almost every state to marry your cousin. It is also legal just about everywhere in Europe and doctors have shown that the risk of retardation to your baby from this is not as high as we all think. Its actually about the same as if one were to have a baby after 40. Thats all I know.
2006-06-13 09:31:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve bore many children...Cain and Able were the first...Back in those days people lived hundreds of years...incest was the way the world was populated..but it was not considered a sin back then....Homosexuality...have you ever heard of Sodom and Gomorrah
2006-06-13 09:25:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does Adam and Eve having a child have to do w/ homosexuality? They didn't have just Cain and Abel, you know....they had many sons and daughters whose names are not mentioned in the Bible.....but once again, out of curioustity....what does it have to do w/ homosexuality?
2006-06-13 09:23:41 · answer #10 · answered by ac28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they had two children, Caine and Abel, who eventually killed eachother. Caine killed Abel out of jealousy and then God killed Caine because of his sin. These characters were created two thousand years after the "date" of conception. Scripture Scholars say that they were answers to people in Jesus's time asking for answers about where people had come from. AKA, they are facimiles of the idea of human creation. They were created as characters to show God's love and devotion to his creation: us. It is easier to say "Adam and Eve were the first people" than to say " gee, we don't know, but have a strong faith in the history of the world anyway".
2006-06-13 09:22:44 · answer #11 · answered by Erikamarie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋