Adam & Eve?

Question

I am not Christian though I attended a Catholic high school - however there's one question I never had answered...... If Adam & Eve were the 1st people that God created, when Caine and Abel were born, how did they find themselves wives?

Answer 1

Abel never found a wife, because Caine killed him. After Caine killed Abel, he was thrown out of the garden of Eden and went to the land of Nod where he took a wife.That is quoted in the bible.

What I always wondered was did this mean GOD also created other people of different races if there were people in Nod? Who were they, as it never explains.

Answer 2

What some of you people are forgetting somewhere in the bible.

Remember the snake that temp Eve..Well that was the devil and how did the devil came to be?

He was a fallen angel from heaven because he disagree with God and when God kick him out of heaven. The angel/devil was not alone there were some other angels that felt the same way and they are also kick out to earth.

This is where there was other people around for Cain to find a wife.

I have seen some same "type"of question about the first couple and babies. Maybe Adam and Eve were brother and sister maybe not and maybe Eve did have sex with her only son or maybe not.

However, everybody seems to forget about the devil.. Doesn't he have some powers? He HAD to if he was able to change from a snake into a man and also have seduce other female devil to make of HIS own human beings..

Am I wrong? This is the only thing that I can come up with that makes sence at least until I met God and hopfully be able to ask that question. For which I'm sure it have been asked before since this whole human beings started like 1,000 Billions ago... lol..

Anybody can email me if they want to express their view on this or anything.
:-)

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were the first man and woman but God created others. Cain had a wife, and they had a son Enoch. Adam and Eve also had more then Cain and Abel for children, one being Seth. It's in the book, you should read it again.

Women weren't recorded in history much unless they did something amazing. Women were considered to be like cattle to bare children.

Answer 4

Adam was age 130 when Cain slew Abel and Seth was born.

Adam told Eve, she was bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh.

Their offsprings would be the same and so near perfection. No genetic defect. There was no incest law until 2515 years after Adam when genetic defect appeared as
hunchbacks, dwarfs and giants.

How many children could adam and Eve have had in 130 years. How many couples of Adam and Eve had to pair to get population started, then it would be niece instead of sister. But in 130 years some of the relatives could have been strangers as the ventured out to other places and met much later.

Answer 5

This is a classic question, and one that has been debated by theologians for centuries.

As the bible only mentions Adam, Eve, Caine and Abel... the logical conclusion is that the rest of the species was conceived via incest.

In order to address this, theologians decided that for some reason, the bible forgot to mention (the bible! wrong!) some other women from somewhere or another, created by who knows - that Caine and Abel took as wives...

I can dig up the documentation on it given time... pretty funny huh?

-dh

Answer 6

They married their sisters. Yes, Adam and Eve had more children than just Cain and Abel.
You are probably thinking that is gross because it is incest but there was no sickness and the DNA of Adam and Eve was new so there wasn't a risk for problems back then. It was only after sin ravaged the earth and their were enough people to populate the earth that God forbid incest.

Answer 7

Unfortunately it seems the Catholic high school didn't have the class read as far as Genesis chapter 5. There it says that Adam had "sons and daughters".

Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian, says tradition says that Adam and Eve had 33 sons and 23 daughters.

I think the Bible says nothing about whether Abel married.

Cain, yes ... obviously, one of his sisters. No, it was not "incest" in those early days of human history; later, with genetic defects increasing and with human population increasing, God then declared what was "incest" and that it was wrong.

Answer 8

The bible is allegory, the Adam& Eve story is allegory. It has purposeful inconsistencies so the reader can question the validity of the writing and apply it figuratively as it was meant to.

2nd century Church father Origen, known as the greatest church father of all time, states: “What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars, and the first day without a heaven. What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in paradise in Eden, like a husbandman, and planted therein the tree of life, perceptible to the eyes and senses, which gave life to the eater thereof; and another tree which gave to the eater thereof a knowledge of good and evil? I believe that every man must hold these things for images, under which the hidden sense lies concealed” (Origen - Huet., Prigeniana, 167 Franck, p. 142).

Answer 9

When I was little I once thought this question and relized that we are all incest cousins of each other if Christanity is true, but then I relized the many flaws of Christanity & believed in eveloution.
I mean I think God exists, but Adam & Eve was just an old wive's tale.

Answer 10

Genesis 5:3-4

3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

With such long lifespans, there is no reason to assume that they were in a hurry to get married.