How many people believe that Adam and Eve are two people?

Question

I don't understand how Adam and Eve can just be two people. If Adam and Eve actually exisited (which I am sceptical about) it would make more sense for Adam and Eve to just be a metaphor for the begining of humanity instea of them being the only two people. If they were only two people then every time someone has sex they would be commiting incest.

Answer 1

I think that Adam and Eve represent a new beginning in Human-kind. This next part is kinda nuts but i think it happened. I think that Aliens landed around or in the city of Babylon, which is the place thought to be where the garden of Eden was located. Anyways the aliens mated with the more ape like homo-sapiens of that time. Adam and Eve where the children of this relationship. Maybe this is the reason for the "Missing Link" in the evolution of man. Just a theory, i usually don't bring up because Christians get really upset about that idea.

Answer 2

Adam and Eve WERE 2 people. Adam and Eve had MANY sons and daughters...but back then, God did not forbid incest. The reason for this is because Adam and Eve were essentially perfect specimens as far as genetics and so if there was incest there was not the potential risk of birth defects because the genes were still so pure. God also said for them to be fruitful and multiply and so they did, it was not until much later (I think around the time of Abraham) that God forbade incest, because by then..humans had linked out so much it was no longer necessary to "be with" your brother or sister.


Over time also, our gentics became less and less perfect (such as diet, natural poison or ANYTHING that was done to the human body) so incest became dangerous. (And there was no longer a need for it since the bloodlines branched out) And now, yes we are ALL sons and daughters of Adam and Eve but we're talking BILLIONS of people here, distant DISTANT relatives.

Answer 3

I believe they are two distinct people. God created Adam first, then from Adam's rib, He created Eve. Adam named her Eve because she is the mother of all living. They lived for a very long time, Adam was like 900 years old! They had to populate the Earth! They had many children and those children had children and so on... If you believe in God, you must believe he can do anything, even start a world with only two people!

Answer 4

Adam and Eve were real people and not metaphors. Their son's and daughters did marry and have kids. Why is that hard to believe? There are many cases where incest takes place in the Bible such as Abraham and Sarah. It was not a sin back then and noone thought it was wrong until Moses.

Answer 5

Yeah it's so much easier to believe that Adam and Eve were two fish that grew legs and lungs under water and brought a couple million of their friends and family up to the surface to populate the earth and build pyramids and stuff. Oh and then every generation morph a little so that they may one day have apossable thumbs and rule the earth and claim to be gods in thier own right because after all they created themselves and cognitvely evolved into "human beings". Oh and the whole DNA thing took them another million years to master, but they got that down packed too.

Answer 6

Look at this verse:

Gen 3:20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Through Eve all of humanity was born. Look at this too:

Gen 4:1 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'
Gen 4:2 And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

You can interpret this literally or symbolically but ask yourself with interpretation makes more sense?

Obviously it is meant to be interpreted literally. About the incest issue:

Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.
Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Gen 2:23 And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'

God made Eve from Adam. That means Adam had sex with himself (kindve). Is that not incest as well? Eve was his own biological sister!

Answer 7

First, I appreciate your skepticism. But I also believe that with God, nothing is impossible. (Mark 10:27)

Yes, I believe that He created two human beings, named the first Adam, and Adam in turn named all other creations, including his wife, Eve.

I believe that God wanted the two of them to have a family- He did command them to multiply and fill the earth. He would not have commanded them to do something unless he made a way for them to do it... like preventing birth defects because genetics were too similar, etc.

Answer 8

Ok i am not sure if they existed or are just a story to " teach a lesson" but i know in the bible someone else randomly appeared that had sex with adam and eves kids .... i know thats not alot of info but that is all i know

Answer 9

in my opinion it makes much less sense that they be one person. I believe there is both a literal meaning and a deeper one. If i am going to believe that god created people from clay, and out of nothing, i am going to believe the entire story that they were two. God knows perfectly and exactly what happened and created adam and eve knowing their children would reproduce and blessed them and their children.

Answer 10

interesting concept, except for the incest part, that's nasty. But you could have a point about Adam and Eve being a metaphor. I never thought of it that way before. Thanks for giving me something to think about.