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Question

you know how adam and eve had children. well how did their kids mary someone else to have kids if you are clearly not suposed mary your siblings?

Answer 1

In the beginning Adam and Eve were PERFECT, remember? Then they disobeyed God and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

This is when SIN ENTERED IN. At this time because Adam and Eve did not suffer any genetic defects owing to their perfection and the fact that sin had not brought the human race to its current level of decay, it would have been okay for sisters and brothers to marry at the time.

It is later when sin started really having its way and genetics started getting all twisted up that God said to the people to not marry relatives so close. God saw what was happening and through His commandments, paved the way for our success and our survival. If only we would LISTEN!

It is a harsh concept for us to understand, sisters marrying brothers, but God's ways are not our ways and once we understand that it has taken since the beginning of God's Creation for man to get to the filthy and corruptible state that we are in, then we realize the slow and horrible process of decay that SIN is having on us as a people and how much we need the Lord.

This is also why Adam and Eve and their families lived for so many hundreds of years... because the disease and pestilence had not taken over yet, owing to sin having entered in.

Answer 2

Eve was said to be the mother of all living... so they were the first and only people originally.. so the question is on the table and a good one

Moses said not to marry siblings in another age and time roughly 3600 years later

why?

adam and eve had no genetic defects and the biological diversity within themselves for the ethnic groups and variations we see today. Since the had no genetic defects and high variation, posssibly even being very different from eachother one might have been darker and one lighter? different eyes etc etc...

but as time went on and genetic defects would occur it would be more important to have the protection of not having close relatives marry

http://www.answersingenesis.org

Answer 3

The Adam and Eve story is just that -- a story. It's a kind of poetic word picture that's intended to creatively address how we got here and how the world got to be the way it is.

The storytellers who first started sharing this story, and the later authors and editors of the texts that became our Book of Genesis, weren't concerned about the detail of the wives in this story, because it wasn't relevant to their greater purpose.

Some scholars would also note that the story never says that Adam and Eve were the ONLY human beings God created by supernatural means...just the first ones. So perhaps the original hearers of the stories assumed that God had created others, in other communities.

Answer 4

Well from one I gather from my bible studying that back in those times that they probably married their sister or brothers. Because Cain married her sister at that time because at that time Adam and Eve were the first people on the earth and then they started to having kids so later on the kids got older and started to getting married. So not until years later did God supposely put a stop to people married their relatives.That is what I can gather from my reading of the bible.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve were not the only humans on Earth. The bible is not a history of the world, meaning that certain truths of the world were not included in the bible. The bible traces the lineage of Jesus Christ all the way to Adam and Eve. For instance, the bible says nothing of dinosaurs, but we know that dinosaurs existed. There were other human beings on Earth and that's who Adam and Eve's children mated with.

Answer 6

The "laws" against incest were not inplace then... brothers married sisters and as the population aged and grew uncles married nieces etc... remember that Adam and Eve lived several hundred years... and no doubt Eve was fertal for a good number of those years... Lots of babies....

Answer 7

they did marry there sisters and cousins yes it was incest until the time where there was enough people on earth where it was no longer necessary after moses was given the 10 commandments was when it was said it is not right. yes we are all related back to Adam and Eve

Answer 8

the bible simply says that Adam and Eve were the first humans he created, he never said they were the only humans.

In Genesis 4, when Cain leaves because of killing his brother. It says he went to the Land of Nod, and then had a wife whom he got pregnant. It would be highly unlikely that Adam and Eve had enough children in that time to make distant lands and villages already.

Answer 9

People were separated and continued to develop their own societies. These developments were paramount to each of us being different to each other. This includes skin color and language. We are all brothers and sisters through the one who made us and therefore we are related in one way or another - if we let God move us into our relationships then God will allow us to marry those who we are supposed to be with. God knows who we need to be with and we should not worry about the finer things that society brings up daily to draw you away from God the Father.

Answer 10

did God say you can't marry siblings at that point?
the answer is no. his law was not fully created until moses with the ten commandments, and then the torah(first 5 books of the old testament)

i'm sure that marrying siblings wasn't considered bad back then, not as bad, davids son was attracted to his sister, he raped her, but she asked him to go to their father and have them married first. back then, inter marriage was not the norm, but it wasnt completely looked down upon either.

also, whoever said that noah's kids married, that's not true. God told noah's children to pick out wives for themselves!