if all Human beings are descended from.....?

Question

Adam and Eve
doesnt that make all of us the product of an incestuous relationship!!

if no.... does it not blow a huge hole in the Creationists argument...

if yes.... isnt that against the "laws" of god

answers must NOT contain "cut&paste" from religious literature.

jeff that makes perfect sense ???
now translate into English in your own words....

Destiny..... that is just Spin and a cop-out
try again...

Adam and Eve only had SONS.......

foulweather......how come I`m told by godbotherers that the bible contains ALL the information i need to live my life by!

Answer 1

Good job! And round 547.6 goes to... the Darwinists! And the crowd goes wild!

Answer 2

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.

Bit dodgy if you ask me!

But of course the Christians will tell you incest was ok until Moses was told by God it wasn't. Sounds like clutching at straws!

Answer 3

In the Old Testament, it was a common practice for brothers and sisters, as well as half-brothers and sisters (due to polygamy), to marry each other. Certainly, Seth and Cain (Adam and Eve's sons) married their own sisters because there were no other women. This process likely repeated itself after the flood with Noah's children. If you consider the entire gene pool for all human life was compressed into the bodies of Adam and Eve, their offspring would not have experienced the negative mental implications that we now have from marrying siblings. So, in answer to your question, it is neither a blow against Creationism, nor an infraction of the law of God.

Answer 4

Perhaps you should read and study the word of God to help plug the hole that has been blown in your ability to reason? The full effects of Adam and Eves disobedience had not fully developed yet before the flood. Incest laws were not neccessary because the judgement of God upon man which precipitated the flood had not yet occured and there was protection upon man by the nature of the physiological state of the earth at that time which had a vapor canopy surounding it which protected us from the UV rays of the sun. The description of this can be found in Genesis where you will note the phrase that the firmament (atmosphere) separated the waters above from the waters below.

At the time of the flood God opened up the fountains of the deep and also the windows of heaven (what today we call the "hole in the ozone") This allowed the vapor canopy to empty itself upon the earth and through the ensuing years our genetic makeup has been damaged through the exposure of the suns rays.

You can note that the most immediate effect of this was the change in the lifespan of man. Also it was about this time that God introduced meat into our diet, probably to make up for the lack of nutritional value in plant life as a result in the change in the atmospheric pressure and photosynthesis process. It took time for the full effect to show itself in mankind so that after we had repopulated the earth through the offspring of Noah and God seperated a people unto Himself in Abraham it was neccessary for God to institute laws regarding incestuous relationships in the laws handed down through Moses. These laws were not in place or neccessary during the lifespan of Adam through Noah. But if you put as much energy into reading and studying the word as you do in ridiculing it, you would have read that for yourself...right?

Answer 5

You get bogged down with these sort of paradoxes when
you interpret the Bible literally. For several hundred years now,
especially since a period in Western Culture known as the
Enlightenment, serious minded people have come to realize
that certain Biblical descriptions,especially those of physical
reality, must be interpreted symbolically.
For example, Adam and Eve represent the first population
of people who transformed from a hunter gatherer society (
Garden of Eden) to a pastoral and agricultural one(working by
the sweat of his brow).
The Bible teaches that Eve tempted Adam with the fruit of
knowledge. Actually it was the knowledge(skills) of fruit(vegetables). All primitive cultures practice some sort of
haphazard agriculture, like slash and burn by South American
tribes, and it's the women who mostly tend to the gardens while
the men go off on hunts and trap and fish. When, in modern
civilization, populations became so great that hunting was no longer practical, women asked men(Eve tempts Adam) to help
out with the gardening. He wasn't bringing in the game as much
as he used to and with his greater strength and endurance he
could plow and plant more.
The figurative interpretation of the Bible frees the skeptic mind to embrace Biblical teachings, especially those of morality and
hope and relationships without compromising your logical and
scientific understanding of the world around you.

Answer 6

To be honest, compared to the rest of the stunts the ID movement have tried to pass off as rational argument, Incestuous offspring would be the least of its failings.

I think it has been made clear to both sides of this debate that Literal Creationism is mythology taken vastly out of context. If the "IDers" are too simple to understand that and the "Evolutioners" to stubborn to admit it, you'll be bickering 'till the end of time (assuming there is one, of course) over seriously trivial matters.

Answer 7

Good question and has been asked through out the ages. I for one think "incestuous" as the son would have to sleep with the mother or sister to keep the chain going. Or the father with the sister. Or the sister with the brother.
Or was it the lodger that did it :-)

Answer 8

When God made Adam and Eve he intended for them to have children together because their genes were so pure so nothing messy would happen. This is more proof that God loves us. He doesn't want us to marry family now because it would cause problems with the children eg deformed and stuff

Answer 9

We are all from Adam n Eve the first humans on earth.

Answer 10

there had to be incest in the begining, to start the world off, adam and eve had lots of children,Cane and able were the celebritys because of there story and what happened.The bible is not the only book with truth in it.