I know it's stupid and the Bible doesn't say anything about it apart from "Caine took himself a wife" where the hell did she come from??
2006-07-02 03:06:50
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answered by Angel 3
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Ironically, this is a bit of a hot topic you have touched on. Incest in the Hebrew culture (from which the Old Testiment comes), is one of their biggest and most unforgivable taboos; but if Adam and Eve were the first humans, how did the rest of humanity come into being without the act of incest?
The simple, easy answer is "yes". There were many people around when Adam and Eve were banished from the garden that were either the creations of other gods or the Children of Lilth, the first wife of Adam who left the Garden of Eden via her own free will.
If you want the long, complicated answers try to find a decent unabridged Catholic bible, a Jewish study Torah (called a Talmud) and a collection of traditional Hebrew legends (religious in nature, but more along the lines of folktales or children's stories in theme and tone). Unfortunetly, I can't type out the answer for you or tell you what you will find because it would take up take several pages and get very complicated, but always remember the answer to your question is "Yes, there were other people and no, they were not all made by Yaweh".
~~ Abaddon
2006-07-05 20:16:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Apparently, the story of Adam and Eve is allegorical. Go Googling for the 'Genesis Conspiracy'... it'll blow your mind, whether you believe it totally, partially or not at all.
Genesis was allegedly influenced by Sumerian mud tablets, telling the story of the Anunaki who created humankind. Their first creation was called Adam and apparently Eve was another previous creation used as domestic servants. The Anunaki left some time afterwards after they were disgusted by the humans promiscuous behaviour.
Sitchin believes that the Anunaki are aliens from a twelfth planet... apparently, the Van Allen belt is actually the crushed remains of an eleventh planet called Marduk. As for the tenth planet, that has already been discovered some years back. The twelfth planet allegedly has an outlandish orbit, which is why Uranus is on its side. Once in a long, long while, it comes near Earth... but the orbit is thousands of years. Anyway, the planet had an ecological disaster so the Anunaki flew to Earth to mine gold to create a shield in their atmosphere. Their own kind became annoyed at having to work, so the Chief Medical Officer, called Ninhursag created a slave race. Her and a number of the Anunaki females carried the first humans to term, and they were called Adam. Adam worked in the mines. The Adam fell in love with the Eve (remember the house servant thing above^) and the Anunaki were disgusted by the humans promiscuous behaviour. Some of the Anunaki mated with the new humans, creating the Biblical Nephilim. Most of the Anunaki left Earth with their cargo of gold.
Rivetting stuff
In the Biblical Genesis, it's rather funny that Cain being the only second generation human (after he killed Abel), goes over the mountain to get married. "If Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's only children, how did they have children? Did they make babies with their mother?" (Rod Flanders, Simpsons).
Islam has a go at resolving this difficulty by stating that Adam and Eve had male-female twins. The boys weren't allowed to marry their own twins but had to marry from another set. Cain, however, liked his own twin, the one Abel wanted. This is the Islamic explanation for Cain's murder of Abel.
Islam doesn't mention the Lillith story though... but I'm not going conspiracy theorist with religion just yet, or not in this post...
2006-07-06 18:48:09
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answered by hasina_ghani 3
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After they were removed from the garden, Adam was forced to work for his food for the first time. He and Eve had three children named in Genesis: Cain, Abel, and Seth. The Book of Jubilees names two of his daughters: Azura, who married her brother Seth, and Awan, who married her brother Cain. Both Genesis and Book of Jubilees state that Adam had other children, but those other children are unnamed.
2006-07-09 09:41:38
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answered by Blah 7
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There were many other people around. After Cain did his bad deed he went to the people of Nod and got married. He also was given a mark by God to tell others not to persecute him for killing his brother, we don't know what that was.
2006-07-02 13:40:51
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answered by Marcus R. 6
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Eden was a cosmic myth about Dilmun.
2006-07-08 07:33:14
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answered by mikeledo 2
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good question. i think adam and eve were gods test people and they failed their test miserably so because of the original test people failing gods word, we have to suffer for ever and ever.
2006-07-02 21:07:04
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answered by alcaholicdemon 7
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