Old question maybe but I'd like an answer?

Question

If the bible says no incest how did the world populate itself after adam and eve? who did cane hook up with if there were only 4 or so people? how did the ark survivors repopulate the earth?

Answer 1

Back then humans were near perfect created.

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Answer 2

There was no Biblical restriction on incest for the first 2500 years. Since there were no recessive genes yet, there was no problem with mutations. And besides, who would you have reported them too? The Bible says that Adam had sons and daughters, so Cain married his sister. As for the Ark survivors repopulating the earth. Statisticians have shown that 4 couples could produce this population in 4400 years. In fact, they've shown that if the evolutionist were correct, and man has been here for 100's of thousands of years, the earth couldn't support the overpopulation.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were the first created, but I don't think they were the only created after the Fall. I remember reading somewhere (possibly in the bible or bible study) that Cain's wife came from a neighboring tribe and he left and fathered a nation (that part is in the bible). I"m going to have to reread the story of Noah, but I think it also has something in there about meeting up with another tribe. AFter all, the world repopulated with several different kinds of people.

And, backtracking to ADam and Eve, I forget how many kids they had, but they had way more then just Cain Able and Seth (wasn't that the name of the third son mentioned or was he one of Noah's. WAy too many people to keep track of.)

Answer 4

The ark survivors weren't as close of relatives, as the wives probably weren't related. Yes, Adam and Eve's children would have to have married. At this time, there probably weren't very many genetic defects where this would have been a problem. The laws of incest weren't given until the time of Moses, a couple of thousand years or so later, so no problem.

Answer 5

Back then the blood line was pure so you could "incest". The Bilbe doesn't mention it until the earth was populated.

Adam and Eve had several children-- they married each other.
Gen 5:4
4 After he begot Seth , the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
NKJV


The survivors of the flood were Noah, his wife, his three sons, and thier wives.
Gen 8:17-19
18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
NKJV

Gen 9:1

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them:"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
NKJV

Answer 6

Incest wasn't expressly forbidden before the Law of Moses was given.

Presumably, by then, the human genetic code had become corrupted so much that marrying ones close family members would result in recessive birth defects to become more likely.

Answer 7

But about 2,500 years after Adam became a sinner, God prohibited incestuous marriage.

See Leviticus 18:2-18, God his elevated law of morality, by this time people were engaging in all manner of depraved practices.

Answer 8

Hey Darwin, still kicking I see. I think the ark story is much older than 6 thousand years.

Answer 9

Prophet mainworry says that adam was created after the rest of mankind. Adam was, in fact, not the first man. This completely goes against what has been taught in the church for the last say 1970 years, but it did come from mainworry so it must be true.

Answer 10

put two and two together man. But remember incest was forbidden long after Adam and Noah

Answer 11

The really weird thing about all this is that SOMEHOW only God's chosen people didn't have the birth defects that other societies all around them had. Before that point, bloodlines would have been pure enough to not worry about it.