If Adam and eve did not exist... there would not have been any human beings! The first of the species of human beings the revered Adam and Eve were the first to surface on Mother Earth as human beings. Their direct ancestors being the ape family!
Now Adam and Eve came onto this Earth. They had both to act as a family. Both were son and daughter of God. That made them brother and sister. How come they could have fathered children?
In the initial stages of development of human life... nothing existed which we could have called as society or community. It was a raw savage world. As per the theory of Charles Darwin, "it was the time for survival of the fittest". It was the time to do and die.
Words like ethics and morality did not exist for even words did not exist during those times. The Lipi (written form of communication) was developed at a much later stage in time.
Even a brother and sister relationship did not exist at that time. There were only two human beings who had surfaced on Mother Earth. They had to copulate and produce children. They did not do it intentionally. They never knew anything about it.
It was that it happened. They did it and something was born. At that moment of time they would have been extremely surprised not knowing what to do about it. Eventually they would have realized it was one of them.
They reared that child and with passage of time another child was born. This time it was a female child. As this small family progressed further... this male and female child copulated at the appropriate time. And the whole family started to grow.
Now there were two families. With passage of time many more families came into existence. Until this point of time there was nothing like morality and ethics that played any role. For the sake of their survival and progeny these families kept on multiplying.
This was the only way to keep intruders at bay. They had to protect themselves from the wild beings roaming Mother Earth.
Ever since the Revelations of God came into existence... the human being who had invoked these words of God realized that the system had to be ordered at some stage. And some system of morality and ethics came into being.
As of today... the copulation by the children of Adam and Eve was a sin but at that time it was not a sin for the relationship of brother and sister never existed in those times.
The development of relationships in human life came at a very later the stage. It was only possible when the community would have developed into a massive strength. Population somewhere in thousands would have prompted the wise and the elders of those times to separate out into distinct families.
We need to understand that whatever is truth today may not hold tomorrow. In a scientific developing world the values whether they are ethical, moral or otherwise keep changing.
We also need to understand that during the times of Mahabharata... the battle was fought using swords, horses and elephants. But now the warfare consists of atomic bombs, missiles and chemical warfare. More here- http://www.godrealized.com/dharma_definition.html
2006-11-27 19:34:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Adam and Eve had all the genes necessary to produce children and begin the Human Race. How could all the races have come from this one couple? Look at your family. Do you all have the same color hair and eyes? Are you all the same height and build? No, of course not and that is just the way the different races came about. Following the destruction of the Tower of Babel when people discovered they were speaking different languages instead of all speaking the same language, those who could understand each other with the same language banded together and spread out over the lands. My assumption would be that race(skin color) might have had a part in who spoke what language. Perhaps all the dark people spoke the same language and the fair folk all spoke the same language and so on and these people banded together because they could communicate with each other. Theory yes but very reasonable
2016-05-22 21:37:02
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answered by ? 4
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The Bible record does indicate that Cain married one of his sisters (Gen. 4:17; 5:4) and that Abram married his half sister. (Gen. 20:12) But later, in the Law given through Moses, such marriage unions were specifically forbidden. (Lev. 18:9, 11) They are not permitted among Christians today. Marriage to a close relative results in a more-than-average probability that damaging hereditary factors will be passed on to their offspring.
Why was brother-and-sister marriage not inappropriate at the beginning of mankind’s history? God created Adam and Eve perfect and purposed that all humankind descend from them. (Gen. 1:28; 3:20) Obviously some marrying of close relatives, especially within the first few generations, would occur. Even after sin made its appearance, there was relatively little danger of marked deformities in the children during early generations, because the human race was much closer to the perfection that had been enjoyed by Adam and Eve. This is attested to by the longevity of people then. (See Genesis 5:3-8; 25:7.) But about 2,500 years after Adam became a sinner, God prohibited incestuous marriage. This served to safeguard the offspring and it elevated the sexual morality of Jehovah’s servants above that of people around them who were then engaging in all manner of depraved practices.—See Leviticus 18:2-18.
2006-11-27 18:31:29
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answered by Suzette R 6
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I assume you're asking the question 'where did Cain get his wife'? He married one of his sisters. To marry near of kin in the very ancient world was common. It was never forbidden in the bible until about 1500 BC where God does forbid it in Leviticus 18:6. Why did he all of a sudden forbid it after allowing it for the 2500 years? The reason is simple. The genetic mutations resulting from the curse on Adam and Eve and on the rest of the universe had a cumulative effect. Though Cain could marry his sister because the genetic pool was relatively pure at that time, by Moses' day the genetic errors had swelled. Today geneticists confirm that the risk of passing on a genetic abnormality to your child is much greater if you marry a close relative because relatives are more likely to carry the same defective gene. If they procreate, their off-spring are more apt to have this defect expressed. So God allowed incest until it was apparent to him that the gene pool was polluted enough where it was now dangerous to allow incest. So, to answer your question, no, it was not a sin until God made it a sin in about 1500BC.
2006-11-27 18:22:41
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answered by upsman 5
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Religion made up stories that were believed thousands of years ago because people were ignorant. Like Noah gathering 2 Polar Bears from Antarctica. Mankind has become more educated and now people know that there are too many mistakes in the Bible for it to be the word of any God. But the religions don't want to talk about it. It's still believed by people who think that if they pretend that it's correct, they will get a second chance to live their lives over again when they;'re dead, but without having any more children.
2006-11-27 18:28:25
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answered by The professor 4
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Not for them. Back then the gene pool was sufficient to avoid birth defects. It wanst until later that incest became forbidden as the gene pool diminished. With every generation humanity looses more of the genetic information it uses to reproduce itself.
2006-11-27 18:15:34
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answered by Anonymous
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insest is a sin because it is harmful to the body. all sins are bad because they harm you in some way... spiritually, or physically. insest became bad because as time went on, more deseases developed and began developing within genes that are too close together and similer. when this happens the genes become weak. because of this fact, it is a sin. insest causes all sorts of mental disorders.
2006-11-27 18:19:25
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answered by bondservant 2
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Yes. The law was not in effect then so it was not a sin. They would have to have had sex with eath other to produce more children.
Why do you not ask more substantial questions my friend?
2006-11-27 18:17:30
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answered by ccc4jesus 4
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Yes it is a sin. why not read a bible.You we see that is not at all what happened.
2006-11-27 18:13:24
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answered by gwhiz1052 7
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Enlightenment of God worshipers is futile I think, but none the less we prod on in our endeavors to free this world of religious shackles and someday hope to better the world.
2006-11-27 18:26:36
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answered by Anonymous
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