If there was Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, where did the rest come from?

Question

Ok..so I can see how Cain and Abel came from Adam and Eve, but what about the rest? Wouldn't that be indicative of incest if Eve was the only female, and her husband, Cain and Abel were the only men, either Eve slept with her hsuband and eventually had a daughter, or Eve slept with Cain or Abel. Either way, there had to be incest in the family, because if Eve DID have a daughter, that daughter would of had to sleep with either her father (Adam) or her brothers (Cain and Abel) so....anyone got any BETTER suggestion or is the bible just full of sin from the very beginning?

ok, so Abel went out into the land of Nod and found himself a wife..where did she COME from? Magically appear out of the darkness or what??

Answer 1

Often, apparent inconsistencies can be resolved if we just look at the context. Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?

Where did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?

Yes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.

Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.


The solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces.

At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.

It is probable that, while yet alive, Abel had sisters; the record mentions the birth of daughters to his parents, but their names are not recorded. (Ge 5:1-4)

Cain went into banishment in “the land of Fugitiveness to the east of Eden,” taking with him his wife, an anonymous daughter of Adam and Eve. (Ge 4:16, 17; compare 5:4, also the much later example of Abraham’s marriage to his half sister Sarah, Ge 20:12.)

Answer 2

From the book of Apocrypha (not sure of the spelling) Adam and Eve weren't the first.

Adam and Lilith (his first wife) were created at the exact same time. This is important because they were equals. God gave Adam the power of Naming. Whatever he Named that's what it became. Eve was given power over the plants and animals, and they all blossomed under her touch.

However, Adam had a falling out with Lilith because he tried to dominate her and she left. Adam asked for a 2nd wife and that's how Eve came into the picture.

So, Cain and Abel came after Adam and Eve were kicked out and cursed by God.

Cain kills Abel and becomes the world's first murderer. He is told to leave. But Cain asks God how will he survive when other people will try to hurt him for what he's done to Abel.

God places a mark on Cain to show that if anyone touches Cain they will receive punishment yada yada..

Cain goes out to the land of Nod where he knows his wife.

Now the question is Cain's wife Lilith? Or did God pull another Creation Story around the corner that nobody knows about.

Also, if you believe everything in the Bible as True, then Lilith wasn't cursed by God because she left the Garden of her own free will before Adam and Eve screwed everybody.

So there could be a woman walking around today he can't grow old and can't die. If you believe any of that.

Answer 3

First off, after the "Cain slew Abel" section, it mentions Adam and Eve having a LOT more children. And yes, brothers and sisters then slept with each other in populating the world.

Even so, this is NOT a sin. God does not make a decree about sleeping with siblings being a sin until much later in the Old Testament, so there's no harm and no foul. Since it happened before the rule was made, there's no sinful nature to the act. It was grandfathered in.

Answer 4

One significant difficulty with mum and dad of close kin having babies is the more desirable threat of start defects. this is because, by the years, your DNA can get damaged by radiation, ailment, pollution, drugs, etc. If 2 those who're no longer close kinfolk have babies, any inherited deficiencies in the genes should be suppressed by a extra dominant, un-damaged gene from the different figure. yet even as close kinfolk have babies, that's extra in all probability that both mum and dad will carry a similar damaged gene. even as those 2 damaged genes experience up, there is not any "solid" gene to take the dominance, therefore, the disorder surfaces as a start disorder. in the age of Adam and Eve, and the subsequent few generations, this does no longer were a difficulty. they could have had a organic, undamaged gene pool. There ought to were no genetic rationalization why close kinfolk ought to have had an enhance in start defects. also, on the instantaneous, God had no longer yet given a command hostile to it, so it does no longer have violated God's regulation both. Later, the bible does record a regulation hostile to close kinfolk having such kin.

Answer 5

after cain killed abel he went east of eden to the land of nod where he got himself a wife
yep and in Genesis 6:1-4 the "sons of God" are captivated by the beauty of the "daughters of men."
and nobody knows where the giants came from either

Answer 6

Let us not forget Adam and Eve had many other children. To understand this, in part, you have to go back to the original Hebrew it was written in. It would take a long time to explain all of that. A gentleman by the name of Bill Cloud Does an excellent job explaining this. Try his site:

http://www.billcloud.org/

Answer 7

The garden of eden story was plagiarized from the legend on the Sumerian tablet about the Anannaki, who were in that region mining gold. Humans already existed. These 'gods" (to the people of that region any way) wanted humans to slave away for them and also thought we shouldn't be having sex when they wanted us to work instead, thus the sex shame.

"Eve" was a male in the original version and the "snake" one of the Anannaki trying to help humans. The bible writers twisted it to fit their own dark beliefs.

Here's a good link on it, except consider the 'alien' bit to be alien to that area, not to earth.

Answer 8

Adam was the first of the race that would be called Jewish. He became lonely and aske his idea of god for a mate. which was granted.and she was called lilith. but proved to be to independant as they were both created from the earth. Adam complained and Lilith was banished frormgarden . the god created eve from adams rib to be a better compliat match.
there is the theroy of simataionious creation. the legion of atlantis. a theroy that we we not created on this planet. and one of the ages of man. there is a theor that their is only five types of women from which all were made.take your pick as nobody can say for sure.

Answer 9

Evolution

Answer 10

According to the Adam and Eve theory, all humans are descendants of Adam and Eve, thus all humans are related, thus all sex is incest.

Also, this theory raises another question... where did all the races (African, Asian, Hispanic) come from? mutation?