If Adam and Eve were the first two people, does that make all modern people the products of incest?

Question

Because it would have been Adam and Eve and their children, who would have then had to sleep with each other in order to make more people. Or was there anyone else around?

Answer 1

adam and eve are only a "story"... it didn't really happen like that...!

Answer 2

I am not sure if you are looking for a serious answer or what... but there is a THEORY that I can tell you about. Remember, this is only a THEORY.

Many religious scholars believe that many things in the Bible represented other things... such as the first 7 days of existance. Some people believe that each of the days wasn't a 24 hour period, but another unit of time that was much longer - possibly even thousands of years (which makes evolution quite plausible - but with the difference that God started it all, not 2 random cells bumping into each other, and besides, where did those cells come from?).

ANYWAY, to answer your question, along the same theory, some people believe that Adam and Eve weren't just 2 individuals like we imagine - that they were two tribes. And their children, Cain and Abel (and later on, Seth) were also tribes (tribe being a word to describe a large group of people).

So... that is one THEORY that explains how Adam and Eve were the beginning 'parents' of the world.

Don't forget that after the flood (Noah's Ark story) that Noah's "family" was the only one to survive... so modern people would have been also greatly attributed to them.

Remember... Theory, Theory, Theory. We won't know for sure until after our last breaths.

Answer 3

I bet you it would be incest and we will all look like Jews (I do not know if you will be happy with it but I will be.). That is why I want you to go back and read the 6th day of creation that says " Male and Female he created them on the same day He created the animals. NOTE: Male and Female at one time and no covenant made. Read also the the part when Cain was thrown out of Eden and He said, " I will be wandering and anyone who will see me will kill me". If those who will see him were children of Adam and Eve why would he be worried about being killed, I do not think everybody will be ganging up on him for killing Abel. and why is it that when he went out, he met his wife to be and begot a son and named him Enoch.
Adam and Eve were the first two person chosen to follow a covenant and could the first couple with assignment to build a family that would follow God's plan. To be chosen is said to be Son of God which is written in the Book of Samuel. Still in Genesis, it is not true that there were angels who took human forms when they saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they married them. The Sons of God being mentioned there are sons of Adam and Eve.(maybe they were not so good looking then so when as they saw the first people having so much sex appeal than their contemporaries they married them)
Here is a reason why Jeremiah wrote," The days are coming" declares the Lord,"When I will plant the House of Israel and the House of Judah together with the offsprings of Man and Animals." Jeremiah was talking about the Male and Female created on the 6th day. The same time when the animals were also created. NO INCESTand there were people elsewhere. A fact why non-Jews who are called the Gentiles exist. Although incest could have also played at one time when God declared to Abraham that his descendant will be as many as the stars in heaven and thinking that they must all be Jewish so they thought they shalll marry among themselves. They never knew that the numbers are only about the children of the promise and by adoption to the faith, his descendants will be as plenty as told.

Answer 4

In the bible that I read, Adam and Eve had 3 sons: Cain, Seth, and Abel. There was no account for the boy's mates. So there are few possibilities - A) God created their significant other's
B) Evolution provided their needs
C) Eve was more than just their mother, or
D) Humans at one time could switch gender in an environment dominated by one or the other. Many animals today can do that (Crayfish for example).

Answer 5

That would explain why there are so many stupid people in this world, would it not? Seriously, if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, then that means they would have been related and that we all would be the products of incest.

Answer 6

Adam and Eve were God's first people.The bible has been written over hundreds of years.
Read Genesis when Cain was marked by god and sent away. He traveled away to a city.A city?How many times had God made people in his image?How many were not made in his image?How much time had passed from Adam and Eve's creation til Eve ate the apple?These are the things you must consider.Get your pastor or priest.Maybe he can clear things up for you.Good luck though...I'm still trying to understand.ha ha

Answer 7

I've thought about this and in the bible Adam and eve had i think 3 kids. All males. But all of them had women. So I think and I may be wrong God made some other humans. But if I am wrong looks like we are cousins.

Answer 8

Well when I used to be a christian, I was told that after Adam and Eve produced children, God created a third party to mate with.

But I don't believe in the bible or all that stuff anymore, evolution is what I believe.

Answer 9

God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If this was the only way they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could they have known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit?

Answer 10

All modern people are not the product of incest. Incest was deemed sinful during the thime of Moses when the Law was given. Until then, it was not considered "incest."

Answer 11

Back then that law didn't apply and probably the first generation didn't as something wrong but I'm pretty sure their second generation didn't commit incest but married their cousins which is way better.