If adam and eve were the first two people on the earth and they had children and their children had children then the only way for them to do this was to have sex within the family. So how can the bible say incest is wrong when as far as you belive the world was populated through incest?
2006-08-03 11:02:00 · 15 answers · asked by Tamsin 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Incest was biblically encouraged and sanctioned untll the Noahidic Flood when most everyone died, then another round of incest was encouraged until breeding "critical mass" was reached.
God disapproves of you porking your sister unless it is necessary!
2006-08-03 11:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, couple things to think about.
First, doesn't matter whether it was two people or two single celled amoebas that started the whole thing --at least for awhile, close relatives are going to have to mate and reproduce until a critical mass of population results. So, under those circumstances, it's not really incest as we would think of it, as secondly, incest does not exist until society reaches a certain level of population as well as social and intellectual advancement in order to formulate the concept.
The Adam and Eve story is not necessarily to be taken literally, anyway. It is an allegory in which Adam, meaning "fertile soil" and Eve, "life" give rise to the Israelite nation. So, most likely these two are generic characters who represent national founding (heroic) figures.
2006-08-03 18:22:40 · answer #2 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During their lives Adam and Eve had many male and female children, and they had long life spans - Adam lived 930 years. - Genesis 5 v 5.
Many people immediately reject the conclusion that Adam and Eve's sons and daughters married each other by appealing to the law against brother-sister intermarriage. Some say you can't marry your relation. Actually, if you don't marry your relation, you don't marry a human! A wife is related to her husband before they are married because ALL people are descendants of Adam and Eve. - all are of one blood. This law forbidding close relatives marrying was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18-20). Provided marriage was one man for one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 & 2), there was no disobedience to God's law originally (before the time of Moses) when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.
2006-08-03 18:16:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve? They were probably primitive people who evolved from the apes of Africa. I would imagine that somehow there was an ape community in the Mideast and God used Adam and Eve as a prototype model while allowing for other humans to evolve on their own.
2006-08-03 18:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by ibid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In The Sims 2, Adam and Eve's children would just marry NPC's.
2006-08-03 18:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was ok only for a short time to populate, then re-populate the earth (after the flood), there was no other way. It was to have incestuous relations or no future life on earth.
2006-08-03 18:18:52 · answer #6 · answered by creeklops 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At some point (after all genetic diversity happened) incest was deemed wrong with immediate family members even though it was okay before. I don't remember when, but my aunt could tell you.
2006-08-03 18:07:59 · answer #7 · answered by onanist13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a hanif-muslim and I believe in adam and eve.I really don't know how but for some strange reason here we are today.Questions I can not answer, I just let "BE".Maybe genetics of mankind were composed differently.
2006-08-03 18:10:11 · answer #8 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forgot Adam's first wife Lilith.
2006-08-03 18:10:09 · answer #9 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Lilith were the first two people.Eve was created later.God Bless.
2006-08-03 18:12:18 · answer #10 · answered by kathy6500 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋