Adam & Eve... and incest question?

Question

OK Christianity believes in that Adam & Eve were the first man and woman. Doesn't the Bible say incest is wrong? Where did everyone come from if Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth? I mean if you go on this belief wouldn't incest have to come along sometime since all Adam/Eve's children would be brothers & sisters so they'd have to reproduce with someone to further Earth population, right? Who with, the sons reporduce with their sisters or mother or what? See what I mean? Answers please!

tspbrady.... ew does that mean I can sleep with my sister and it's ok?!

Answer 1

Well incest was declared wrong after the task of populating the earth was well underway. God sees all and knows all. Things are evil or a sin when God and or man say its against the law. Incest in Gods eyes wasn't a sin until he commanded his prophets to tell the multitude that it was done that there was no need for incest.

Answer 2

My personal belief is that you are correct, that brothers and sisters became parents etc. I don't see how it could have been any other way. As for it being wrong, I would explain it as follows, but please note that this is partly opinion (albeit one shared with others):

Sin is the contaminant that has caused otherwise perfect bodies to be tainted. God intended that our bodies would last forever. When sin entered, sickness and disease entered with it and so did death. As a result and due to the compound effect of sin over the generations, mankind has become progressively genetically defective. Sin, in the absence of law (and no doubt sickness and disease) increased to the point where God found it necessary to wipe out all but a few righteous individuals in the great flood.

You'll note that science is becoming increasingly more perplexed by the fact that our bodies deteriorate at the rate they do. You'll also note that the Bible say's that the early generations lived up to 900+ years.

Later the Law of Moses prohibited incest because I believe that it was becoming increasingly likely to produce defects. It is a law that is now adopted by common law as well as God's Law.

In short the immediate descendants of Adam & Eve "got away with" incest because it was not wrong then and did not produce the defects that it does today.

Have you ever noticed that because of their genetic make up, parents can often have two very different children, this is apparent even in the difference between Cain & Able.

Answer 3

Okay good question.

Am a muslim and the Adam and Eve story is pretty much the same with one difference, weve got more details to it.

Since they were the only people around, they were ordered to marry their children in the following order:

Eve had twins every time she got pregnant and they married the children that were not from the same belly.

Well even that would seem like incest to you but the point is these people were the first and God had allowed the fact of marrying siblings for a short period so they could populate.

Case closed ^^

Answer 4

In the past why did God allow marriage between brother and sister?

The Bible record does indicate that Cain married one of his sisters (Gen. 4:17; 5:4) and that Abram married his half sister. (Gen. 20:12) But later, in the Law given through Moses, such marriage unions were specifically forbidden. (Lev. 18:9, 11) They are not permitted among Christians today. Marriage to a close relative results in a more-than-average probability that damaging hereditary factors will be passed on to their offspring.

Why was brother-and-sister marriage not inappropriate at the beginning of mankind's history? God created Adam and Eve perfect and purposed that all humankind descend from them. (Gen. 1:28; 3:20) Obviously some marrying of close relatives, especially within the first few generations, would occur. Even after sin made its appearance, there was relatively little danger of marked deformities in the children during early generations, because the human race was much closer to the perfection that had been enjoyed by Adam and Eve. This is attested to by the longevity of people then. (See Genesis 5:3-8; 25:7.) But about 2,500 years after Adam became a sinner, God prohibited incestuous marriage. This served to safeguard the offspring and it elevated the sexual morality of Jehovah's servants above that of people around them who were then engaging in all manner of depraved practices.-See Leviticus 18:2-18.

Answer 5

We often have a hard time understanding and accepting things that lie outside of our realm of experience and what we know now to be right.

If you understand that first of all, God created man perfectly, there were no flaws physically and no potential, (outside of the entrance of sin in the world), for degeneration, sickness, birth defects or abnormalities. Technically, Eve was Adam's siter as she was flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood.
It was not until after sin came into the world and our bodies began to degenerate that God put a ban on close familial marriages. You can see through Biblical text, though, that it was not uncommon for close family to marry before the time of Noah. Even afterwards the boundaries were not so far as they have become today, because our bodies are so far from the way God created them, reproduction between close family members is a problem today that it was not in that time.
One that does not accept that our physical bodies are not improving but degenerating and that we did not come from cavemen, will have a hard time with this concept.

Answer 6

What is incest? It is sexual relations between relatives that are too closely related to legally marry. Such a practice is forbidden because a child born from such a union had a higher risk of inheriting severe birth defects. Jehovah's purpose for the earth was for it to be populated with a perfect human society. Would Adam and Eve be responsible for doing that alone? No. So to accomplish that, in the beginning, Jehovah intended close relatives--namely brothers and sisters--to form marriage bonds and help in the procreative process. Since they would be perfect like their parents, there would be no risk of passing genetic defects to their offspring. But after Adam sinned, he became imperfect. As such, he would now pass on that imperfection to his future children. As mankind drifted further and further away from perfection, they became more and more "damaged." Then later, it became too risky for close relatives to have sex because of defective genes that would be passed on to their children. NOW it became incest. In the Law that Jehovah gave to Moses, sexual unions between close relatives was outlawed. It is still outlawed in many countries today, although some continue to practice it.

Answer 7

Adam & Eve were a Special incarnation of God and origionaly not intended to die--therefore no need to procreate. all that changed with their fall.
humans of many type were created on the sixth day and they were told to multiply(thus the various races)--before Adam and Eve, who were created after God rested on the Seventh Day.
So Adam and Eve were not the only humans creatures on Earth.
Read your Bible carefully-Get a "Companions Bible"
they were in effect an Eighth day creation.

Answer 8

African Eve or biblical Eve?

Inside every cell of a human body is a stretch of DNA which is only inherited from one's mother. Unlike ordinary DNA, which takes part in the transfer of hereditary information, it is not found in the nucleus (centre) of a cell but in a little 'energy factory' in the outer parts of the cell called the mitochondrion.

Copying mistakes (mutations) in this DNA are not likely to be lethal (and thus quickly eliminated), so they can accumulate at a faster rate than ordinary DNA. So if the various races of men alive today were separated by vast periods during which they evolved separately, they would have quite different DNA 'fingerprints' in the mitochondria of their cells.

Analyzing samples of mitochondrial DNA from large numbers of all the different races on Earth showed that there was a surprising (to evolutionists) degree of relatedness—in fact, the differences that were found could be accommodated by postulating one woman as the common ancestor of all the mitochondrial DNA sequences found on Earth.

Note that this does not mean that evolutionists believe that only one woman existed at that time.

Only that this was the only one to have transmitted her mitochondrial DNA to an the people living on earth today.

Think of the way in which a surname in our society is only inherited from the father. Now imagine an island whose inhabitants had only three surnames: Smith, Jones and Watson. Any particular name can become 'extinct' (if all the descendants in one generation are female only) even though that generation still has offspring. In due course, it is not at all unlikely that all the inhabitants will come to carry the same surname. This happened in the case of Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific with the descendants of the Bounty mutineers in 1790.

Mitochondrial DNA 'surnames' can become 'extinct' in the same way. In fact, with a small population of females to begin with (that is, a small number of 'surnames'), it is a likely occurrence. Now imagine if the island population mentioned above has already broken into two groups, each with all three surnames. Smith may ultimately become the sole surviving surname within one isolated group, Jones on the next. However, if the inhabitants of the one island, after being reduced to one surname, spread out across an empty Earth, all populations will carry that name. If they have already separated into several groups for a significant time before such a wide dispersion, then there is likely to be more than one surname present today.

Having only one mitochondrial 'surname' surviving in all the races of man means either that (a) there really was only one woman at the beginning of a very recent origin of humanity—the biblical Eve, or that (b) all the other 'surnames' have become extinct. However, as we have seen from our island/surname example, this would seem to mean accepting that all the races existed as a single small population long after man is supposed to have first evolved. In other words, in escaping the biblical implications of 'Eve' (by regarding her as one woman among many living in Africa 200,000 years ago) evolutionists must accept a scenario which in broad outline strongly parallels the Babel account

Answer 9

Adam married his own rib! Their offspring married each other. It was not incest then. There was no law for another 2500 years. The gene pool was pure then. There was no one to report them to (ha). Yes, the sons of Adam married their sisters. Adam and Eve lived for over 900 years and so did their children. It did not take long for the population to 'mushroom'.

Answer 10

on an identical time as Adam had intercourse with Eve, grew to alter into that incest too? I advise Eve grew to alter into created from Adam's rib that could advise that she grew to alter right into a woman comparable to him, that could make her the equivalent of his twin sister. that could desire to make sparkling the evil nature of Cain, he grew to alter into the synthetic from brother sister incest. Incest additionally exists in the tale of Lot and his daughters. they're on my own in the barren section and the daughters enhance to an age the situation they want husbands yet there are none accessible so what to do? Mummy's no longer around to grant advice as she grew to alter into grew to alter into perfect right into a pillar of salt, so as that they get daddy drunk and characteristic activates diverse nights having intercourse with him. i'm especially beneficial they weren't married the two.