how did the earth get populated? INCEST? THAT IS PRETTY TWISTED....
2006-10-27 17:33:31 · 17 answers · asked by ateo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As an agnostic...
Do you take the Bible as literal truth? If so, then yes, incest was involved. If not, then assume the stories are just that - stories.
2006-10-27 17:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by over_educated_under_everything 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.
Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.
Adam and Eve had other children as well. For Genesis 5:4 says: “And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.”.........This meant that Cain and Abel had sisters, and possibly other brothers not listed by name. These grew up together as earth’s original family.........Where, then, did Cain get his wife? It was obviously from among his own family. His wife was one of his fleshly sisters, a daughter of Adam and Eve. Cain was likely married at the time he killed Abel, or shortly thereafter took one of his sisters as a wife. They then traveled together to the land of Fugitiveness, where they took up residence and started their own family.
“But such a union is incest!” It must be remembered, however, that circumstances were different in earlier times. Adam and Eve were created perfect, and the instruction for them ‘to multiply and fill the earth’ would necessarily require that their offspring marry one another and reproduce. (Gen. 1:28) But as perfect humans, their children would have been perfect as were their parents.
Cain and his brothers and sisters were still so near to physical perfection that the children they produced did not suffer the same adverse effects as do children born of such unions today. Even some 2,000 years afterward, God’s faithful servant Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, and God did not disapprove. (Gen. 20:12)
So, really, the question of where Cain got his wife is not a difficult one. The answer is provided right within the Bible, and it becomes obvious when the Bible account is read carefully.
2006-10-28 00:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by Emma 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I find it strange, that if you are a believer you would think it twisted how he populated the earth. I don't believe in it, I think it's all made up, but I would think that a believer would think that his population methods were beyond reproach. If the only people on earth were brothers and sisters (children of Adam and Eve), then they obviously would have had to mate with each other, and since there was no such thing as ncest at that time, what's the big deal? You are putting sins on them that didn't exist at that time. I'm so glad that this is not an issue for me.
2006-10-28 00:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
There was a show on the History Channel (USA) tonight about Bibical codes in the Book of Daniel and Revelations that are said to have specifically predicted some things that happened later but I only saw the ending of it; guess I'll have to wait for a rerun
2006-10-28 00:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin is pretty twisted...that is why the Lord wants us to learn about Him so that we can live in a place where there is no longer ANY sin! The BIBLE IS TRUTH! Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth!
2006-10-28 00:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by maranatha132 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How did it get populated with Big Bang and Evolution.
One little cell. That's incest too!
You can't escape it.
What you think magically one day apes gave birth to one million humans who moved away and started a nation!
You think a cave man cared if the woman he had sex with was is sister, mother or cousin!
One of the popular Scientific explainations for Reigion is that it was started to KEEP those things from happening in a Tribe.
Totem and taboo, as Freud termed it.
Now, you go explain to us all how a grunting caveman with no language, no culture dealt with being horney in a cave all winter with his family.
Like it or not, either the WHOLE human race started as inbred, or the various races began that way.
There has to be a certain amount of inbreeding when the population levels are low during the "formative" years.
It certainly provides an explanation is to why only Jews have Ty Sacs disease, why only Blacks have Cycle Cell Anemia and why only Whites had ancne.
It can also explain birth defects. Those nasty "inbred" genes raising their ugly heads.
The Bible, by the way, says God's Sons took the daughters of Adam and Eve as wives.
It also said there were "giants" living in the EArth.
Not sure what that last one actually means.
Plus it is possible God created more humans just to breed with.
Anything is possible with God, but Science is limited by precedent.
2006-10-28 00:40:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
In all actuality it does tell you in the book of Genesis 5:1-2 This is the history of the descendants of Adam. When God created people, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human".
2006-10-28 00:43:12 · answer #7 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It says that Adam and Eve were the first to be created, but it doesn't say that they were the only ones. It refers to there being other people when Cain leaves.
2006-10-28 00:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not twisted, because back in the biblical days people were more perfect. Adam and Eve were created to perfection. After they fell, that is when we started to become imperfect.
2006-10-28 00:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we are all related in a weird kinda way in biblical life the blood line was clean to do that most of us came form Adam and Eve but a majority of us came for Noah and his family.
2006-10-28 00:43:22 · answer #10 · answered by bat_girl2be 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋