2006-10-27 04:24:13 · 19 answers · asked by Yahoo!! President 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible says that Adam lived to around 900 years and had many sons and daughters. So, it should be obvious that they married their own siblings. Does it really have to be spelled out for you?
2006-10-27 04:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cain married at least one of his sisters. But Adam and Eve had other Children and they wed each other. The age of Cain is not stated in the Bible but he was old enough to go out on his own. And I'm sure that Adam and Eve were still having babies as Cain and Able were growing up. Its possible that Cain was at least 20 years old and it is also possible he could have been 100 years old? So if everybody was "Multiplying" like God said, it is possible that there we a number of people around.
2006-10-27 11:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by Messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve did not have any siblings (brothers/sisters).
Of course their children had siblings.
Have you read your Bible? All the way through to chapter 5 of the book of Genesis?
Cain killed Abel.
Adam and Eve had another son, Seth.
Genesis 5:3-5
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
So, notice the Word says "and he begat SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
So, did Cain have a sister?
The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus says that Adam and Eve had 33 sons and 23 daughters.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/cains_wife.asp
2006-10-27 11:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were the first humans God created.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being" ; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
Genesis 3:20
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
-They had no siblings, they were the FIRST human beings to reproduce- As God planned it and made it happen.
2006-10-27 11:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is the question that really made me re-evaluate Christianity. The same bible that condemns homosexuality promotes incest. Some Christians will say that incest was justifiable in the beginning for the purpose of populating our planet. Therefore, isn't homosexuality justifiable in an overpopulated world? They can't have it both ways. I asked a Catholic priest this same question and he said that Adam and Eve had daughters that were not documented in the bible. He had no answer to the question that followed. If something as significant as the children of Adam and Eve was undocumented in the bible, then how can we believe anything written after Genesis? What else was left out of the story when human beings were writing it?
2006-10-27 11:32:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible says that Adam and Eve were our first parents. Apart from the angels in heaven, animals and plants there were no other living creatures. Remember though that God has already blessed them to be fruitful, become many and fill the earth. So they were to start the whole race of the human family. Therefore when they were driven out of the garden they gave birth to other children from cain to abel to seth and a lot of others.
Chapter five of the book of Genesis in the bible lists the history of Adam saying he became father to 'sons and daughters'. So we can conclude that since there were no other human creatures the children got married within themselves and gave birth to other sons and others. Their children were normal cos they were still near perfection which is not possible today.
You can still relate it with after the flood. Surely Noah's family had to intermarry to get children to fill the earth.
2006-10-27 11:47:55 · answer #6 · answered by girlfunny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were not cast out of Paradise; they came voluntarily in order to uplift the races of man. Every inhabited world has an Adam and Eve, so this is where their siblings would be, on other worlds.
2006-10-27 11:35:47 · answer #7 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First, Adam and Eve didn't have siblings. I assume you're referring to the children of Adam and Eve. Since they were so much closer to perfection than we are today, they didn't suffer from the effects of being inbred. They chose spouses from among themselves. Eventually, however, God told them not to take spouses from their siblings any more because their imperfection had grown to the extent that they could no longer safely produce children without having birth defects, etc.
2006-10-27 11:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do you think the human race got started? Adam and Eve had to have daughters to marry their sons to start the human race. This was how God chose to do it. He does not make any mistakes. Sin had not yet tainted the human so bad so it was ok to marry sister/brothers, but not now. Today it is called incest and it is forbidden by God and some human laws.
2006-10-27 11:26:58 · answer #9 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The children of Adam and Eve married each other.
At that time it was not a sin to do so.
There was no physical danger because the gene pool was pure at that time.
2006-10-27 11:47:48 · answer #10 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋