If Adam and Eve were the first people here..?

Question

If Adam and Eve were the first people here..how does the bible explain how their children evidentally slept with each other in order to populate the world?

Answer 1

God approve incest. It's Ok when 'he' approves it!

Answer 2

The Bible claims that Eve was the mother of all the living

the Bible does not explain why close relatives could marry then but not now, but there is a reasonable answer

1) Adam and Eve were made with sufficient genetic diversity between them to produce the current ethnic spetrum we see accross the human race AND

2) they originally had no genetic defects, these would randomly come about in the thousands of years following

this is quite different form today where in breeding without supfficient genetic diversity and with genetic defects would be harmful. Adam and Eve were the first people here

Answer 3

This is a question I feel only God could answer but I will take a shot at it.

First and foremost it has never been an accepted practice for incest by God if it were the bible would have said so somewhere and it doesn't.

Adam and Eve sinned so we will never know how God planed to fill the world but I think if he could create Adam and Eve he could create some others but he didn’t.

So get to the point your saying ok here it is God used sin to fulfill his purpose as he had done so many times in the past.

Adam and Eve had children and they took their own siblings for mates and inter breed and by that means he fulfilled his word, just like he did after the great flood on Noah, if you recall it was only Noah and his family that survived the flood and they were all first cousins by blood.

That’s my guess and I can wait until I meet God to ask him but I have other questions I would ask him first.

God Bless

PTALBANY

Answer 4

Actually in the book of Adam and Eve (not in the King James Version) evil angels lusted after the women and came down and had sex with these lovelies and they had giants and well go on line and read about it. I wondered about that myself, were did all these people come from, different colors, features so on and so forth. I have problems with the missing parts of bible that told us a little more about how people came to be. I say watch a few episodes of Star Trek and you can sorta kinda get a clearer understanding by seeing it rather than reading it. I know Star Trek sounds hokey but alot of the stories in Star Trek are based on stories in the Bible. Also a good read is the book of Enoch. He never died. He just went with God. That book tells alot about humanity and what happened after Adam ate the apple. It's a big book and really creepy but it is very interesting. One of the knowledges gained from eating the apple was the ability to write, God didn't want Adam to know how to write. After he ate that apple not only did he know he was nekked he could read and write too. Also it tells about astrology and that there are many many planets and have we not heard on the news recently more planets are being discovered and Pluto is not a planet. Believe or not it's sound pretty curious to me.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve were perfect . They had two sons consecutively Cain and Able. One a farmer the other a hunter.
These were transcribed by moses from much older texts. called Sumerian. They had legends of two types of tribes of people guess what kind? Farmers and hunters. These warred with each other.
Anyway the Hebrews were really interested in following the blood line of the King so they would of concentrated on only one family of the ancient patriarch-es.(Abraham's) Starting with the blood line of Adam and Eve.
Of course, scientifically we all do have one biological mother known as Eve DNA evidence proves that today. So that particular story could just be true. DNA evidence is welcome in today's court of law.

Answer 6

If you look at science rather than simply what everyone feeds you, inbreeding does not cause genetic diseases as long as they have a clean gene pool. Assuming that the story of Adam and Eve is true, then their children would not have yet genetically "mutated" (every child is a slight mutation of its parents) enough to cause any diseases.

Even today, marriages between cousins are perfectly acceptable in most parts of the world, and rarely cause any problems. The Incest taboo is universal, everyone has some rule against marrying relatives, but each culture is different in how it defines "relatives".

Answer 7

Life began with single cell organisms that divided, diversified and specialized. Even now, human life begins when two cells join, divide and specialize.

Millions of years ago, life suddenly became tremendously diverse. By the time of animals, there were thousands of species of mammals, some of which became the hominids we descended from. There have always been more than two ancestors of man. If a pair of our ancestors were "Adam" and "Eve", you can rest assured they had plenty of relatives to breed with.

The stories in the bible are myths. They are fantasy stories written by people who had no understanding of science, genetics or evolution. It was the only way they could make sense of the world around them. To expect these stories to be logical, or have application in any sort of modern context is ridiculous.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve may have been the first people in the Garden of Eden, but if you read the bible closely, it mentions "the other people". The people who exsisted beyond the barriers of the garden.

Answer 9

Marrying your sister or brother was not wrong until the time of Levitical law, so yes, there were many brother sister marriages during this time.

The lifespans were far longer than ours today and it did not take long to make a larger population.

Even Abraham and Sarah were a married brother and sister, and Abraham is the father of all nations according to Gods word.

We may not like parts of history, but that does not make them any less true.

Answer 10

"Adam & Eve" were not the first people on earth. Before them and probably overlapping their existence were other humanoids. Some anthropologists believe that A&E were the first generation of homosapiens, an assertion I tend to believe.

You can see how our modern physical build is much more pleasant and adaptive then that of the much earlier man. Spiritually, God saw this build was to his liking resulting in Him breathing His spirit into them, which gave them the ability to spiritually grow in His love and to their own human potential.

Answer 11

The bible being the word of God, needs no explanation.
Since he created all things, why does he have to answer to you?
Ever hear of ammendments to laws?
God told Adam and Eve to go and populate the world....he didn't say how.
He also gave dominion of all things to man, and he blew it with just one broken law. He couldn't say no to Eve.
Another thought, sin isn't sin unless God says it is, and that came a great many years later.