Adam and Eve's children..?

Question

If man began with Adam and Eve, would that not indicate that there must have been incest between the children they produced? Or did Adam impregnate his own daughter. Or maybe their son impregnated Eve.
Can someone explain this?
Do Christian support incest?

Answer 1

You're not suppoed to ask these awkward questions!

Answer 2

We answer this nearly every day.
Adam and Eve's children married each other, it was not considered incest then. The gene pool was clean. There was no one else. No law until Moses about 2500 years later. Family intermarriage was stopped in the Jews before the law was given, but that made it illegal. Many cultures continued intermarriage up until just a few hundred years ago.
The Bible tells us that Eve was the mother of all humans on earth. Science confirmed that all humans alive in 1988 came from one female human. This work was done at the University of California, Berkeley by A. Wilson and M. Stoneking. The story of this work is reported in "Newsweek" 01-11-1988.
What that really says is that the Bible story about Adam ans Eve being the first two humans "could be correct".

Answer 3

Adam and Eve gave birth to sons and daughters. Up til this time no laws had been made about incest as God wanted them to propagate the population of the earth. But once the population was diverse enough God then made rules.... and incest was considered very wrong just as it is today. It is most likely thought that it was not Eve who impregnated Seth, but rather Seths sister. Girls were unimportant in that society, or at least when the scriptures were finally written down. So sisters of Cain Able and Seth were not mentioned. There may have been many others sons and daughters. We just don't know about them.

Answer 4

Incest was allowed before Moses brought the ten commandments down. Adam and Eve were created perfect, thus had no genetic flaws. The problem with incest is that when you reproduce with your relatives, the likelihood of having recessive traits expressed (a recessive trait is when your other healthy gene masks it, but if you have two you show the trait/disease) So anyways, many generations later, the mistakes are piling up and close mating is a bad idea. No Christians are not for incest.

Answer 5

The Bible is full of incest. Noah's own sons had sex with him after the ark landed, for example. However, I don't believe that Christians support it.

If one read the Christian Bible literally, then it means that everyone is the result of the inbreeding. (If you follow the version that Eve came from Adam's rib instead of the dust version, then that means that Adam and Eve shared the same DNA as well.) However, Christians now say that their DNA was really strong, so it was okay for them to inbreed. This doesn't explain how the DNA got corrupt then, if everyone's should have been exactly the same like Adam and Eve's.

Answer 6

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 7

I can tell you don't read your Bible much do you?
Adam and Eve lived just under a day. A day with God is one thousand years. Cain and Able were children Eve brought into this world. Cain slew Able and Adam knew his wife again and she delivered Issac.

Just how many children do you suppose Adam and Eve were able to bring into the world in just under one thousand years?

You are also forgetting about the men and womb men (women) that were created during the sixth day of creation. They to lived long and were here up to two thousand years before Adam and Eve. They had millions of kids too.

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Answer 8

Adam and Eve lived several hundred years, long enough for 4 more generations of children to have children. They were so close to perfection that their children could have married eachother and had offspring without any problems occuring. It wasn't until much later that God told people not to marry within their own families and he did it because he could foresee the problems that the children would have as a result.

Answer 9

I heard of a theory once that speculates that instead of creating a man and a woman (Adam and Eve), God created a group of men and named it Adam and a group of women and named it Eve. So if that were the case, I guess there may not have been incest. That is, assuming that Genesis is true word-for-word.

I guess you never know.

Answer 10

There was no incest in Adams family. The bible tell us that God made other people besides Adam & Eve. It tells how that Cain saw his wife coming from afar. Adam & Eve were the first but not the only ones.

Answer 11

God created Adam and Eve as the first man and woman. But he also created other men and women. Adam and Eve were just the first two that were created. Their story is famous because the eating of the forbidden fruit which was the first sin of mankind.