God created Adam & Eve and they had children who...?

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in turn had children also. May I ask where they found their mates? Did they commit incest? Where did they come from?

The debate could go on & on isn't it? Different views from different beliefs. However it is interesting to see that a great number of ppl think that as long as no law has been written (by man) then it is ok by God for us humans to do whatever. Beon2050, I agree with you. Your answer shows that evolution and creation can be reconciled and that we can actually have both side of the coin.
Finally, let me just point that I am catholic, have indeed read the bible and am only exicising the ability given to me by the Supreme Being to use my brain and question things around me.
Have a wonderfully blessed day full of questions and hopefully answers

Answer 1

Ever imagine that the legend of Adam and Eve might just possibly be allegory?

al•le•go•ry ( l -gôr , -g r )
1.
a. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
b. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.
2. A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
3. A short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, parable, apologue] a: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem] b: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

Just imagine: Adam - the first life form playing himself out as a one cell organism. Yes folks! A protozoan who then divides and splits into it’s other halve (Eve) and together they continue to live fruitfully and multiply. and multiply. and multiply....

pro•to•zo•an (pr t -z n) also pro•to•zo•on (- n )
n. pl. pro•to•zo•ans or pro•to•zo•a (-z ) also pro•to•zo•ons
Any of a large group of single-celled, usually microscopic, eukaryotic organisms, such as amoebas, ciliates, flagellates, and sporozoans.

[From New Latin Protoz a, former subkingdom name : proto- + New Latin -z a, pl. of -z on, -zoon.]

Ridiculous you may say! Ahhhh! Yeah! But how ridiculous you suppose is our whole existence, espescially in light in its cosmic entirety, if you really think about it. Anything possible.

Answer 2

Clearly they married their siblings. These were the first modern humans, there were no options. There were no foreigners to choose from. The early Old Testament, especially that far back, was very different than the later portions of the Old Testament. This was the dispensation of innocence. Remember that they hadn't received the law yet. Without the law there was no sin. If there is no speed limit on the highway you won't break the law if you drive at 95mph. It's only after the law is established that you get the ticket. The other point is the one thing that does still apply, even after all the ages that have passed since Adam and Eve. That point is that God always provides the means to an end. Was it wrong for siblings to marry? Not if that is what God had provided and no one knew any different. Remember, God only holds you responsible for what you know. If He doesn't tell you something is wrong, somehow make that apparent to you, then it is not. I'm not saying that if He doesn't whisper in your ear that you shouldn't rob a bank then it's okay. We all know better. We have laws. We know stealing is a sin. He has made us aware.
But did the offspring of Adam and Eve sin when they married? How could they? There was no law addressing something that we now consider sin. And besides, what choice did they have? That was God's plan at the time. Even He changes things up every couple of thousand years or so.

Answer 3

If you take the Biblical narrative as truthful, then you would have to conclude that brothers and sisters married at the beginning. Mosaic Law was not written until after the flood, so you would have approx. 2,000 years of marriage of your close relation as being permissible, prior to Noah, his sons, and his wife and their wifes, being the only people left on Earth.
Not only would this make it morally acceptable at that time, but from a genetics standpoint, if Adam and Eve were the first created Male and Female, and God said everything was very good, we can assume that their genetic codes were unflawed. However, copying errors (errors being the result of sin and death entering creation after the fall) would mount up generation after generation. That's why marrying your close relation today is not a good idea...genetic mistakes have a chance of being matched, rather than cancelled out, if you marry a distant relation...and if we are all descendants of Adam through Noah, then we are all related in some way.

Answer 4

they found their wives from the cities (since adam and eve had sons, incest is obviously not an option). essentially they married foreign women. which in turn opens the debate that if adam and eve were the first or only humans, where did the others come from? biblical scholars have sort of come to the hazy conclusion that god created adam and eve, and either made others at a later date, or god created adam and eve as part of the divine, and when they were cast out of eden, married mere mortals, who were already there.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve is sort of a theory. In the bible some things are told to teach you how stuff happened and it didn't exactly happen like that. Adam and Eve is a story telling how and why man and woman where created. And they had Cane and Abel as sons who killed eachother supposedly.

Answer 6

How many times are people going to ask these questions. Incest was not an issue at that time. Genes were much more pure at that time, and no mutagens had been introduced to DNA just yet. It would be another 185,000 years before that would happen.

Answer 7

I have heard something about when Cain was evicted from the family for killing Abel, he was sent off to fend for himself. According to the Bible, Cain said something like this in a monologue. "Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." Well God said he'd give him a special mark (tattoo?) and that way no one would kill him. So Cain's killed his brother, gets disowned, and the next thing you know he's "laying with his wife" to bear a son named Enoch.

Must've been someone else out there.

I don't understand why the Bible doesn't seem to mention WHERE Cain's wife came from. And what her name was. I have alot of questions for the entirety of the Christian religion, and most of them stem from Genesis.

Answer 8

The problem with incest is mainly genetic- I'm no biologist, but I know that mixing close family genes causes a higher incidence of problems in babies. But back then, in theory, the gene pool was tiny- there would have been no problem between brothers and sisters.

Answer 9

It was a different society. The Bible includes a story of a man named Onan who had two daughters. His daughters had no children and decided to get their daddy drunk and then seduce him. It worked, but Onan thought better of it and employed the coitus interruptus method of birth control. Like the bird in your cage, Onan spilled his "seed" on the ground. Amazing to me, God cursed Onan for failing to propogate and bring children on for the next generation.

The people in ancient times lived longer, it seems, and certainly were not carrying the number of defective genes that we carry today. Marrying relatives didn't increase the incidence of defective births like it would in our generation.

I don't get it but, hey, I figure I can ask God about that one someday if it still seems important at the time.

Answer 10

Yes, now you see the stupidity of Christianity. Two people started it all, yet, their kids would have had to commit incest and in closed gene pools the kids get shorter and shorter and become deformed and so on. Total nonsense. good for you for looking at this intelligently.

Answer 11

Yes they committed incest... but it was ok back then. There were no laws to state it was wrong until the Mosaic Laws went into effect many generations later.