Maybe I'm reading the wrong bible, but there was no mention of any daughters to Adam and Eve...so who did Cain and Abel marry and have children with. If there were daughters...isn't it creepy that the first family had to marry and make babies with their brothers and sisters. eewwww!
2006-12-09 12:58:25 · 20 answers · asked by Laughing Man Copycat 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one is telling me any names of the daughters or any passage numbers you're not helping with this question.
2006-12-09 13:07:49 · update #1
After reading some of your responses...Are you guys sure you're not making this stuff up on your own?
2006-12-09 13:17:37 · update #2
My followers believe in Absolute Morality! This means that morality doesn't change at all - like it does with godless people. This also means that if something is a sin on Tuesday, it is a sin on Friday. One sin would be schtupping ones sister. That has absolutely always been a moral "no."
So people didn't bonk their sisters back in the good old days. You see, the sons of Adam and Eve were....oh LOOK! Did I just see Satan!? Did he have a place just for YOU in hell! Because you doubted for a minute? BOY I sure wouldn't want to go to hell because I was THINKING about things too much. Do you?
Good boy. That's what I thought. Thinking leads to sin.
2006-12-09 13:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cain was the first child of Adam and Eve recorded in Scripture (Genesis 4:1). His brothers, Abel (Genesis 4:2) and Seth (Genesis 4:25), were part of the first generation of children ever born on this Earth.
Even though only these three males are mentioned by name, Adam and Eve had other children. In Genesis 5:4 a statement sums up the life of Adam and Eve—‘And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.’ This does not say when they were born. Many could have been born in the 130 years (Genesis 5:3) before Seth was born.
During their lives, Adam and Eve had a number of male and female children. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote that, ‘The number of Adam’s children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.’11
The Bible does not tell us how many children were born to Adam and Eve. However, considering their long life spans (Adam lived for 930 years—Genesis 5:5), it would seem reasonable to suggest there were many! Remember, they were commanded to ‘Be fruitful, and multiply’ (Genesis 1:28).
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If we now work totally from Scripture, without any personal prejudices or other extra-Biblical ideas, then back at the beginning, when there was only the first generation, brothers would have had to have married sisters or there would be no more generations!
We are not told when Cain married or any of the details of other marriages and children, but we can say for certain that some brothers had to marry their sisters at the beginning of human history.
2006-12-09 13:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Heath 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Bible you will find that many brothers and sisters were married creepy or not incest laws did not come into effect until Moses brought the law and it does say that Adam had sons and daughters. Gen.5: 3-5 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Considering that Adam lived 930 year and each of his children lived a similiar amount of years it is easy to see that many generations would have existed together and the marriages could have been somewhat distant none the less without law there was no sin.
2006-12-09 13:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm.. or maybe the bible just 'forgets' to mention any family members not male, considering Adam so conveniently blamed his bad apple eating habits on Eve. What a setup! Was he so weak charactered that he could not take responsibility for his own actions. Are all his future sons blessed with this fault of character also!?
Who was around to record all this, by the way. Wouldn't it have been his word against hers? Or was it some fanciful 'blame the woman' tale a room full of men cooked up years later to suit their own purposes.
And really, newbiegranny, 'daughters got him drunk and had sex with him' - yeah right. Sounds very convenient to me. Do you ever think carefully about what you are saying or just believe everything you read.
2006-12-09 13:01:13 · answer #4 · answered by AJ... Australia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My goodness.... so much misunderstandings on this!
Adam and Eve were our first ancestors. They would have to have had a perfect balance of dominant and recessive genes to create the many races and different genetics that we have. I believe that happened.
Yes, the first ones likely married brothers and sisters..... except for those who married the "sons of God" who some believe to be angels or fallen angels, but I've seen no clear proof of who they were. But it says in the Bible that the "sons of god" saw the daughters of men and mated with them.
Later, things branched out and it would be more like distant cousins, which we all are today.
Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him to have children by him.
In some countries like Saudi Arabia, it is common to marry your own aunt or 1st cousin. Keeps the money in the family!
Nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said.
God Bless,
Sue
2006-12-09 13:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by newbiegranny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible that is available to people today has been translated and changed too many times to be taken word for word. Second, Jews did not mention women in the Torah unless they were really important.
Third: Incest was not necessarily an unhealthy thing until as population grew in the earth (and the earth itself became inhabited with growing amounts of bacteria and germs with climate changes and such), sanitation become poorer. When genetics are very similar (as happens with inbreeding), it is easier for a virus to to kill many inhabitants with those same genes; whereas if the genes are diverse, it is more difficult for a virus -that might adapt perfectly to the pattern of one set of genes- to adapt to that of others.
So without inbreeding, there is less of a risk of a lethal epidemic within a community. A good example of this is to observe the Amish communities in the USA. They tend to marry within their second cousins, and they tend to be rather sickly people (and not only because they refuse modern medicine, but because of their genes).
2006-12-09 13:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a small passage about the fact that Adam end Eve had more other children.
Yeah, looks like some incest at the beginning.
2006-12-09 13:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 5
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
2006-12-09 13:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by SETFREEBYJESUS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that God created other people after Adam and Eve. But the bible just focuses on their family, so no they didn't marry their own family.
2006-12-09 13:01:52 · answer #9 · answered by Angel Face 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis chapter 5 verse 4: and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.
2006-12-09 13:01:53 · answer #10 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋