Before everyone starts let me say that i'm not trying to offend anyone just looking for explanations. If adam and eve replenished the earth and only had 2 sons how was this accomplished without incest?
2006-10-11 16:15:37 · 21 answers · asked by Guitarpix 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thats a good question, why are there so many questions that cannot be answered, and when one brother killed the other, he was casted out right, he went to another town, married and had children, right, so it says, but how if they were the first four?
2006-10-11 16:42:35 · answer #1 · answered by b26_angeleyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back when the earth was formed by God, he created Adam and Eve. It is true that they populated the earth. However, at some point, and I can't remember where (somewhere in Genesis) God said that was enough. It was forbidden to have incest any longer. That would have occurred after the flood when Noah and his family replenished the earth.
Check out http://answersingenesis.org/
And, if we don't take the Bible literally, then it must not be true. I for one do take it literally. With out a literal Genesis, we have no foundation for our faith.
2006-10-11 23:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by Alice W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't. GOD did not forbid this till later on in the bible, for obvious reasons. The gene pool was, by all means, a lot less of a factor at that point. Children born out of incest, can be born retarded or extremely smart. Maybe that's why, today, so many of us are born merely average. Maybe that was GODS plan. Many people fail to take into consideration, that maybe, just maybe, Caine and Abel were not Adam and Eve's first children. This would explain Caine marrying the woman from Nod. It was one of his relatives.
2006-10-11 23:29:22 · answer #3 · answered by Dionsays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been asking that question for years and have never gotten a straight answer. I did, however, read a book that possibly explains all this.
Think of the Revolutionary War, all right? Adam and Eve were "future" humans, sent back to the past to make sure that natural selection followed the proper course for them to exist. They taught early man how to do things like farm, make fire, educated them about safe sex practices and stuff like that.
Here comes the tricky part. There were certain people who thought that the distant government they took orders from shouldn't have anything to do with them. Adam and Eve themselves were loyal to the distant government, but decided that the orders should be ammended to fit the situation they were in. Because of that, they were banished to this planet and forced to live out the remainder of their lives.
They actually weren't husband and wife, they just worked together on the project.
I probably didn't explain it correctly, but I gave it my best shot. I'll find the book and try again later.
2006-10-11 23:27:36 · answer #4 · answered by Lizzie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve had many children, not just Cain, Able, and Seth. The had probably hundreds of children, yes they married their Brothers and sisters and neices and nephews and cousins. Back then the genetic code was pure up to the point of the Tower of Babelon, then God not only changed their tongue but also their genetic codes to make where it would be concidered incest and deformities could happen.
2006-10-12 01:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by princezelph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve had lots more children and there was incest but it wasn't a sin back then because they were so close to perfect and God had planned for them to parent the entire human race. It wasn't until sin had gotten to the point that it would affect the children adversely that God told them not to marry close relatives.
2006-10-12 00:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange yes? However I seem to remember something about Cain and Abel's wives being from "the land of Nod" or some such....there probably were other people, it's just that they weren't part of the People that began writing/recording the Bible and so were considered insignificant or not "true" people until they married into Adam & Eve's family.
2006-10-11 23:23:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the way I understand it- it is hard for us to grasp because we have a hard time with things that are outside of our realm of experience and education.
God created Adam and Eve perfectly- there was nothing wrong in their physical bodies and without the introduction of sin in the world, no potential for disease or deformity in their bodies.
Up until the time of Nah, when the degeneration of our physical bodies because of sin, got to the point that it affected the generations to come- there was nothing wrong with and no potential problems with interfamily relationships.
Read the information at answersingenesis.org. Their explanation is a lot more articulate than mine- remember that Abraham married his sister- this was not an issue and not a social issue at the time.
2006-10-11 23:24:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. They had several sons. Cain, Abel and Seth are just three of them. 2. This early in the earth's history, what would now be incest was not so considered, or it could not have happened.
No. 2 is just an opinion.
2006-10-11 23:28:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know this for a fact, but I believe the word ADAM is hebrew for "man". If this is true then when the Bible says God created Adam it means man which could represent both men and women collectively.
2006-10-11 23:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by scourgeoftheleft 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of Bible thumper are you, if you don't know that Adam and Eve had many children according to the myth in the Bible? Just because only three were named, doesn't mean they didn't have more!
2006-10-11 23:42:38 · answer #11 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋