If Adam & Eve started the human race & Eve was made from Adam's rib...weren't they "Brother & Sister"?

Question

Not only would the "first two people" have been "Brother & Sister"....Adam's DNA from his rib, would of made Eve his identical "CLONE"..."and they had children together?"....(they would of been two men created in God's image?)... but the bible says they DID have children....which would of made them ALL related to each other (incest). That not only seems impossible...it seems the human race would of fizzled out? Certainly that doesn't explain ALL the different races on Earth, such as Asian, East Indian, American Indian,Black, etc. The way the bible explains it it would of been a world full of Adam's made in the image of God (a Man's World) Being a woman, I find this quite ridiculous!!!...So if there indeed was an ADAM created in God's image...and an "EVE"...then there most certainly MUST of been a "GODDESS"Like in ALLother MYTHOLOGIES of the world (some even older than the Christian bible)????

Answer 1

Because God knew in advance. YOU would sneak around and look for the bottle of K.C. MASTERPICE* and eat her.


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Answer 2

Sir, this theory is crazy.
Adam and Eve had perfect DNA no flaws. each time that the DNA replicated there was a chance for a flaw to develop in there children. and of course it did. Each generation had the different flaws. the different skin colors are just the outward evidence of the flaws that took place in the DNA replication that stuck do to the intermarrying of those that looked the same and that had been isolated geographically from others. Sir i am sorry but ur theory is unbased at all. God is One. He is the great "I AM". i don't even know where you got the idea of Eve being a clone of Adam. I don't even want to think about how you think that we got women on the planet if Eve was an identical clone to Adam. So sir, i pray you abandon this nonsense and come to the truth. have a good day and thanks for the question.

Answer 3

Adam was made in the image of God, Ish and Isha, Man and Women He made them in God's image. Before the fall they were Ish and Isha because She was taken out of man. Well that is how it all started. Obviously they were still healthy after the fall and produced many children. And those children produced children. They lived nearly 1000 years. (To God a day is like a 1000 years and a 1000 years like a day.) People got too corrupt though, that God repented He made mankind. Noah found grace in God's eyes. Then Noah's ark and the great flood. Where I believe the earth separated the first time.

After the flood & Noah's ark, There was Babal. People started getting corrupt in unity again, so God confused their language so peoples would go their own direction. This is where you get the different nations & languages. Their language was different and there were earthquakes and floods and volcanoes. Phleg was born at this time and that is what His name means. (I think this is the second time the earth separated.) Also the life span of people decreased sharply after Babal. Not many made the 200 year birthday after that.

Worshipping Goddesses is an idol to the God of the Bible.

I believe the bible is the Word of God and is truth.

Answer 4

Oh, you are a nasty little troublemaker!

And this is FUN.

But rather than play the same game of turning stuff inside out, let's look at the archaeological record.

YEP WE ALL HAVE THE SAME "ORIGINAL" MOMMA!!!!!

About 20 years ago archaeologists and paleontologists made an amazing discovery. Working with genetic scientists, they trace all of human life back to ONE woman, astonishingly nicnamed "Eve." they tracked mitochondrial DAN - the part of human DNA passed along on the matriarchal side. First they narrowed it down to just a group of 5, and then worked back to a single source.

Furthermore, they managed to locate bones and tracks of a woman the Leakey family nicknamed "Eve" who walked across an Ethiopian mudflat about 3.5 million years ago. The Leakeys are perhaps the world's foremost family of scientists who specialized in tracking ancient human activity, habitation, and pre-Stone Age evidence. As I recall, but may be stating incorrectly since I'm not checking any references at the moment, the mitochondrial evidence was linked - but would be hardly conclusive.

Divergence and variety of species by this period would have offered a number of potential solutions for the problem you raise. Some of the species would have been inter-fertile, much as the lion and tiger are today. This has been raised in various simplistic ways on Y! Answers already, mainly by idiots attempting to promote racism or some Biblical based theory to attack evolutionary science. It isn't worth pursuing in this tiny chat.

I think what would MORE serve your point of view is a wonderful book, "When God Was A Woman." You can get it from the Barnes & Noble bargain books area for about $6. After reading it you can come back to Y! Answers and really torture the Biblical literalists who forget that the Hebrews originally had multiple gods, that they placed a goddess equally alongside their male deity, that they did indeed worship idols, and that a substantial part of the laer Old Testament is devoted to concepts suppressing women. That period of "Egyptian captivity" changed Judaism - but folk today would rather forget all about that .....

Answer 5

God created Adam out of dirt. God created Eve "with" Adam's rib.

God created Adam and Eve with perfect DNA, so incest wouldn't have been an issue. Incest wasn't even addressed until the time of Moses, which was more than 2,000 years and over 24 generations after sin entered our DNA (Adams children were born in sin).

The tower of Babel clearly explains the different races. After people were split by language, they married within their own language, seperating particular gene pools.

There is an object called "chair". There are astoundingly many different types and styles of "chair". Yet they are all made in the image of "chair". Adam was created in the image of God. Eve was created in the image of God. So were you, me, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Connie Chung, and Seal. Image does not mean "identical copy".

You find it ridiculous because your suppostitions are incorrect.

Answer 6

Clearly they didn't, since evolution combined with the spread of mutations through a breeding population of hominids was the cause. However, if two people of very different physical characteristics were to have children followed by incest, the result would be quite variable, wouldn't it? It would also be insufficiently diverse genetically and susceptible to homozygous recessive disorders, and ethnic variation would be more like a single set of variations. There wouldn't be all of: Melanesians, Khoisan and Scandinavians. I don't agree that dinosaurs are utterly absent from the Bible because i think we have hereditary fears of reptile-like forms and schemata of what constitutes a monster which correspond quite closely to the dinosaur form due to the fact that it made evolutionary sense to fear them in the Mesozoic. Therefore, i would point to "Bel and the Dragon", the serpent in Eden and Behemoth as examples of archetypal fearsome beasts based on our instinctive fear of dinosaur-like forms.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve were not born of a woman, they were created by God. They were created in a body that could live forever. Genesis 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. When Eve was deceived and Adam sinned because he knew better, death passed on the human race. Romans 5: 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Now man kind has lost the image of God and all that are born of a woman are in the image of Adam. Genesis 5: 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: When God created Adam and Eve they may not have had DNA because they had bodies that would have lived forever

Answer 8

the rib thing was used as a symbol of unity. The bible says that when a man and a women are married they become one. God shows us this with Adam and Eve. Though they were two seperate people they were joined as one through he covenent of marriage. Also when God created MAN in his image, he is talking about mankind, not just males. As to your question about the races, I would suggest you read the account of the tower of babble in Genesis 11. It would take forever for me to give you the whole account.

Answer 9

Adam and Eve are a myth...there were probably hundreds of Adams and Eves who evolved over time. Probably in the 6 "God days" however long that is, probably thousands of human years, that it took God to create the earth.

The story of Adam and Eve was created by early male church leaders who manipulated the bible in order to promote their own patriarchal agenda and control the masses through fear-based living.

Answer 10

Technically yes, in a DNA sense, they would be related. What is even more interesting is that to continue the propagation of the rest of the human race someone was committing incest. Do you think therefore that the Bible supports incest?? Ponder the ramifications of this quandary.

Answer 11

If there was only you and your bro or sis, wouldn't you do them? I mean, who can go on without having sex for a LIFETIME?!?!? Adam and Eve weren't bro or sis either. Eve was created with one of Adam's ribs. Ribs are bones, NOT CELLS WITH DNA in it, so it would be irrelevant for Eve to be Adam's brother/ In other words, they didn't commit incest. All of the races on earth are the same except for the fact of the amount of UV/sunlight/and radiation their skin recieved, making the skin darker, like going for a tan. Eve was made from Adam's rib, thus Adam "owns" her and we are all descendents of Adam and Eve. Eve isn't a godess, again, made from Adam's rib.