O.K. If "god" created Adam and Eve,and they had 2 sons, Cain and Abel?

Question

and Cain and Abel had children, then who in the heck did Cain and Abel marry? their sisters? I have always had a problem with that one. No one can give a logical answer they just toss faith around and call you evil for asking too many questions!

LOL< I went to a baptist high school and they would give you a hard time for asking to many questions. They felt that religion deserved "blind faith"

Answer 1

Other Gods made other people.

Just remember that the Jews were the chosen people of the God of the Old Testament.

What happened is this: One day all the Gods got together, and they chose their teams, just like kids choose teams in junior high school gym classes.

Some Gods were more powerful, and they put together teams with lots of people, like India and China. They were kind of like the George Steinbrenner of Gods.

The God of the Old Testament was just a puny little God, so he had to choose his people from the leftovers, and he ended up choosing the little group of people called Jews.

Anyway, people didn't play by their Gods' rules, and people from different teams (religions) have always married people from other Gods' teams.

That makes all the Gods very mad, and they often tell their chosen people to not marry people from other Gods' teams. In the Christian Bible, Second Corinthians tells the Christian team to not marry people from other teams.

Anyway, to answer your question, the children of Adam and Eve married people from other Gods' teams, thus becoming the world's first free agents.

Answer 2

Generation 1: Adam and Eve.
Generation 2 : Cain, (Abel did not live long enough to wed or bear children), and a good number of brothers and sisters whose names are not listed.
Generation 3 : An unnamed portion of Generation 2 married their own siblings.
Generation 4 : An unnamed portion of Generations 2 and 3 married their own siblings, aunts, uncles, and 1st cousins.
Generation 5 : An unnamed portion of Generations 2, 3, and 4 married their own siblings, aunts, uncles, 1st cousins, and 2nd cousins.
etc...
Generation 8 : Seth, various generations intermingling in the above mentioned manner...
etc...
Until about generation 20, when God laid down the Law that you may no longer marry anyone closer than your 1st cousin. It was upon the creation of this Law that inbreeding was now considered a sin... and like all sins, has physical consequences. From this point on, any immediate inbreeding would cause congenital defects, and has been so ever since.

Answer 3

Possibility 1: God can create humans from the dust.

Possibility 2: God can create women from ribs. Cain and Abel had ribs.

Possibility 3: Incest.

Possibility 4: It's a parable, not a history.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve lived for many years and had many sons and daughters because they were supposed to populate the earth; only Cain,Abel, and Seth were the only sons mentioned because of the story(brother kills brother) and Seth was the son who is in the Jesus bloodline.I think that Abel was killed before he had a chance to marry, it was never mentioned but Cain getting married - that was mentioned. He had alot of sisters to choose from. Back then God made it ok to marry your sister or brother out of need.

Answer 5

Look ,knucklehead, Genesis chapter 5 ,"Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters"....The Bible speaks of Cain and Abel because there's a lesson to be learned.Of course they had to marry sisters and later cousins and even nieces.When you live eight or nine hundred yrs.you can get a lot of "business" done.They were in a perfect environment at first.As the years went on, after the "Fall",the race got more and more watered down,finally God said,"That's enough ,no more marrying closer than a second cousin."(in the law of Moses)
What's the problem...You know what the problem is ? You hear crap,then you just assume,instead of looking for yourself.
"Somebody tell me the answer,and I better like it or I'm gonna' ridicule it".That's you Holmes.

Answer 6

The Bible also says that Adam and Eve went on to have many other children. Since there was no one else around, and God did say to be fruitful and multiply, it is the only time he has ever advocated incest.

You should continually question any religion you are in as well as comparative religions. If anyone who tells you to accept teachings with blind faith, run far away.

Answer 7

The truth is that when God created Adam and Eve it was many many generations before Moses was given the ten commandments. Initially, before "the fall" they were genetically perfect. There hadn't been enough people yet too mess up the gene pool so to speak, so marrying your sister wasn't like it is today where it causes birth defects. Ask me any question you like. I'll try to give a logical answer.

Answer 8

Ah welcome to the world of religion - and for religion, read cult. Both have the same effect.

For the bits that don't actually make any sense, then they have all the answers to fob people off and ensure the myth and fairy tale continues it's indoctrinating ways.

There are so many inconsistencies in the bible, and pretty much all religious texts.

I mean, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John don't sound especially like names from the middle east to me. I have travelled in the middle east extensively on business over the years, and i've never met anyone with similar names.

Also, in the face of proven scientific facts, they still cling to an un-proven and outdated ideas such as creationism.

Answer 9

The Land of Nod.
Where did Nod come from?
The Bible dosen't say Adam and Ever were the First Humans on Earth.
I Believe the Earth is 4 to 5 Billion years old.
Ecclesiastes chapter one.
One Generation passes away, another cometh.

Answer 10

Abel never got to marry anyone since Cain murdered him. As for Cain, he probably married his sister or a close female relative, since they were members of the first family after all.

Answer 11

These stories are early Hebrew myth. They aren't to be taken literally. There is also good reason to believe that the early Hebrews didn't take them literally. But I digress.

The population of the earth isn't told terribly well in the Biblical story. There are long lists of genealogies in Genesis which explain how the world was populated somewhat - but do not give the whole story. That was not the function of these stories anyway. So again, these stories are myth with theological import and little else.