2006-11-07 02:53:39 · 14 answers · asked by sjdcasey 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Quite...otherwise where did Kane and Abel come from...one of the many contradictions in the Bible...
2006-11-07 02:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by minitheminx65 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a good question!
OK. The biblical creation story is that God created Adam first, then took his rib and created Eve out of the rib.
So strictly speaking, Eve was a clone of Adam. I don't think there is any law about getting it on with your clone, though maybe there should be.
(There's a problem here in that if Eve was a clone she should have been male, like Adam, but let's just assume that God moves in mysterious ways and managed to do it.)
Then Adam and Eve had children. Only sons are mentioned in the Bible (I could be wrong - no doubt someone from Alabama will correct me if I am!) But Adam and Eve must have had daughters too, or the human race would have died out.
This is where the incest comes in.
If God only created Adam and Eve, and all humans are descended from them, then Abel and Cain and little bro Seth MUST have been rather closer to their sisters than we would consider appropriate nowadays.
Thanks for asking this question! It had never occurred to me before.
I have 2 family members who are ministers. I wonder if I've got the bottle to ask them what they think............no, on second thoughts, don't want to be cast out of the bosom of the family :-)
2006-11-07 11:15:38 · answer #2 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe the laws about incest were given to Moses, some time after Adam and Eve. Presumably the 'perfect' genes of the first humans were able to be mixed with close relatives without problems. Just a theory I read somewhere.
2006-11-07 12:17:11 · answer #3 · answered by good tree 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Incest" as a crime, moral and leagal, was not instituted till the Mosaic Law code was written. Adam and Eve and their children were also closer to perfection, so the problems that now arise with children of incestuous unions did not feature. God is wise enough to know what he was doing when he instituted the family arrangement by directly creating Adam and Eve only.
2006-11-08 21:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never told eve not to "eat the apple". Instead he told adam and gave no divine information to eve. its a story about the development of conciousness and anyone foolish enough to call it a love story is confused.
Its my belief that the story of "forbidden fruit" has nothing to do with apples and everything to do with entheogens and ethnobotany. It is simply the only way one could be "born of a virgin". Eat some apples and be re-born but get your dogma out of my world
2006-11-07 11:13:05 · answer #5 · answered by Sonic Mirror 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They weren't related. They were created separately, Adam first and then Eve because it was not good for man to be alone.
2006-11-07 11:45:49 · answer #6 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were created to populate the world. This applies also to animals and fruits. When you look at it, life is a big circle.
2006-11-07 11:03:57 · answer #7 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Although they were possibly "symbols" and not real people, they were not brother and sister. It must be read as a parable for sin, sex and adulthood.
2006-11-07 10:56:46 · answer #8 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are sick. Youi defile the name of God. His judgment is on you! Blasphemy. You will reap what you sow. Better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck and thrown into the sea than to cause Gods people such pain.
2006-11-07 10:59:56 · answer #9 · answered by Shayna 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
there was no adam and eve
we came from monkeys
2006-11-07 11:48:18 · answer #10 · answered by fair-and-squire 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋