One for the God botherers.....?

Question

1st there was Adam, then along came Eve , they begat Cain and Abel, right? Thats 3 men, 1 woman.... anyone want a crack at explaining where everyone else came from, or are Christians happy to think that we're all desended from a really disfunctional incest based family?

Answer 1

ewww..... are you saying...... uh! thats too gross to think about!
besides, we evolved from apes!

Answer 2

incest is a kind of modern term - ever considered that back in the day, sleeping with a brother or sister was the only way to keep the race alive. Sex is a nautral thing and is completely neccessary for procreation. Nowadays, however, with the earth being populated with over 40 billion people, it is not necessary and such things are now deemed wrong as they can cause specific illnesses in families through the concentration of genes.
And do you really take what the bible says literally?!
Knowing that it was written over 4,000 years ago (The first part anyway) and knowing that bits have been added and taken away,
no wonder it dosent make full sense.
And are we really supposed to know everything?
That would be very dangerous indeed...

Answer 3

Why do people think that this is a good question? This question is as old as the mountains.
God did create other people. It just doesn't mention that in the scriptures. Why? Because That would be moving away form the main story of the creation and the fall of man.
Imgaine if The bible said everybody God created when would it end?
You only ask this question to try and catch Christians out, but sorry its rubbish.
Why do you try and attack God? What has he ever done wrong to you? You might have suffered well big deal join the club who hasn't. But that doesn't mean we have to have a go at God. Your a sinner, ever thought that the reason things in life go wrong are our fault and not God's?

Answer 4

It is as silly as you want it to be. For those that don't even know anything beside the Semitic accounts of creation, there is a Hindu account which completely blows your mind away and too lengthy to go into here.

I am sure many Christians/Jews/Muslims will answer your question and possibly in many different ways too.

The Hindu account for creation is basically that all living entities are eternal spiritual souls and they occupy material bodies. The whole universe around us is a simply a material creation by God to help us try and live separately from Him. When one body dies, the soul simply moves onto another body. The soul being eternal is not born, does not die and cannot be killed or destroyed by anything / anyone.

All relationships you experience in this material world are temporary and you may have completely different relationships in your next lives.

The Hindu account of creation deals with everything from the Big Bang to evolution. Check it out at:

Answer 5

I'm glad that you read the Bible but I'm very disappointed that you misunderstand what's written in it. Sorry I don't have the exact verse but if you read the first few pages or Chapters of Genesis when the brother killed his brother God came to the quilty brother and asked, "what have you done Abel? Your brother's blood is crying for help from the ground". ......the guilty brother then said to God, "don't drive me away from my land and family. If ANYONE sees me they will kill me". then God said to him, "I will put a sign on you that if anyone sees you they should not harm or kill you, if they do I will punish them seven times more". that's an indication that Adam and Eve where not alone in the world. Adam and Eve are the only ones mentioned at that time PROBABLY because they were the only ones who believed in God or probably because they are the "descendants" of Jesus Christ/in the line of Jesus Christ. Read the Bible with time please so you don't miss anything.

Answer 6

Apparently you haven't actually read it. First there were other children besides Cain and Abel. Secondly it clearly speaks of others. Also before you pat yourself on the back to much for this question, it has been asked several times in several different formats.

Answer 7

Another question thrown up by the biblical account of the creation, and Adam and Eve's arrival, is this:

If Adam was created before Eve, and Eve was, as it were, an afterthought, why did God give Adam genitals in the first place?

Answer 8

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Accursed and marked for fratricide, (4:16) Cain left the presence of Yahweh and
settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. We can assume that the phrase "left the
presence of Yahweh" implies that Yahweh is a local deity, nad not omnipresent. Now
Eden, according to (Gen. 2:14-15), was situated at the source of the Tigris and
Eupharates rivers, apparently right where Lake Van is now, in Turkey. "East of Eden,"
therefore, would probably be along the shores of the Caspian Sea, right in the
Indo-European heartland. Cain settled in there, among the people of Nod, and
married one of the women of that country. Here, for the first time, is specifically
mentioned the "other people" who are not of the lineage of Adam and Eve. ie: the
Pagans. So let's look at this story from another veiwpoint: There we were, around six
thousand years ago, living in our little farming communities around the Caspian Sea,
in the land of NOd, when this dude with at terrible scar comes stumbling in out of the
sunset. He tells us this bizarre stroy, about how his mother and father had been
created by some god named Jahweh, and put in charge of a beautiful garden
somewhere out west, and how they had gotten thrown out for disobedience after
eating some of the landlord's forbidden magic fruit of enlightenment. He tells us of
murdering his brother, as the god of his parents would only accept blood sacrifice,
and of receiving that scar as a mark so that all would know ham as a fratricide.
The poor guy is really a mess psychologically, obsessed with guilt. He is also
obsessively modest, insisting on wearing clothes even in the hottest summer, and he
has a hard time with our penchant for skinny-dipping in the warm inland sea. He
seems to believe that he is tainted by "sin" of his parent's disobedience; that it is in
his blood, somehow, and will continue to contaminate his children and his children's
children.
One of our healing women takes pity on the poor sucker, and marries him....
(4:17) Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch.
He became the builder of a town, and he gave the town the name of his son Enoch.

Answer 9

I think,with all that Science has shown us,it has been MORE than prov en,The Bible is just another Story book like all the rest.As people we don't want to believe that there is Nothing out there after we are gone,so we invent Something,a lot of somethings.Does any one really know who the One True God is? Is it Zeus,Bast,Jehovah?Only the dead know the real answer and I don't think their going to tell,or are they?

Answer 10

I'm in full agreement... What a great question... As someone who was forced to read the bible as a child, my faith in god suffered. I am now a complete none believer. Don't get me wrong.. I do believe there was a bloke named Christ, he was however just a union rep in the carpenters union and caused a bit of a fuss and got killed for it... 3 men and one woman really just sounds like a dodgy porno...!!

Answer 11

Unless you known about another woman ,it has to be incest doesn't it?The laws prohibiting incest came much later in the bible.

It doesnt change anything about the christian faith though,does it?
Non God-botherer?