did Adam and eve have a daughter?

Question

if not where did the female to carry on the race come from, i've looked and i can't find any information..........a minister once told me that they were only figure heads and that the lord produced many more people......is this true? i am not knocking Christians (was brought up as one myself) but would really like to hear your views.

diamond thank you, i did, so why didn't you do the same for me and read my question....i said adam and eve, Cain or Abel may have had girls but who would have been the wife?

got to thank you all for the answers........will take my time going through them

Answer 1

If you read the account in Genesis 1, you'll see that on the SIXTH day, the races were created - all of them; and God saw that they were all good - then the Seventh day he rested, and on the EIGHTH day, God realized he didn't have a man to till the ground (a farmer), and so he created Adam - actually in the manuscripts he's "thee Adam" or "thee man" - a specific guy to till the ground -
Remember when Cain was thrown out of the garden? He went off and married - so who the heck did he marry? He married one of the 6th day creation, who had gone and built a city called Nod.
So, yes, there were thousands of people, not just Adam and Eve.
Eve is called the mother of all living, because if you are not in Christ, you are not living - and the seedline had to remain unpolluted from womb-to-womb so that the Christ would come through a pure line.

Answer 2

Excellent question - Adam and Eve had sons and daughters.
This and the related question of 'where did Cain get his wife?' is answered very fully at
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3254/

Adam and Eve had perfect genes. The reason close relatives should not marry is because they are likely to have the same genetic defects and so their children are more likely to have serious genetic problems. For unrelated people, the defects tend to be masked as long as there is a good set of genes between the parents.

So there was very little danger of genetic problems with the first generations of mankind. God gave instruction against incest much later - when there were many more genetic defects in the human gene pool. That is when man had devolved considerably.

Answer 3

That is a great question. I would need to look in the Bible. If you want to look farther into it, look in the old testament. Just open up a bible and in the first few pages it talks about Adam and Eve, and their children. I believe that it says that they had many sons and daughters. In my Bible it even says how long they lived. I think that Adam and Eve lived over a few hundred years, they had alot of time to have many children. The most famous of their kids are Cain and Abel. Cain committed the first murder. He killed his brother Abel, Abel sacrificed more, and God was pleased with Abel for that, and Cain got jelous, and killed him. Again look in the first few pages of the Bible.

Answer 4

Their first three children were Cain, Abel, and Seth: all sons. But Genesis 5:4 tells us they had other sons and daughters. Since Adam, and presumably Eve, lived more than eight hundred years, they had plenty of time to raise a very large family. A footnote in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus says tradition gives Adam thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters.

Also, as Adam and Eve were created perfect, their genes would have been perfect. As the curse God placed upon creation started to operate only after they sinned, their descendants would not have had many mistakes in their genes. These mistakes (harmful mutations) add up only after a long period of time.

So brothers and sisters (Adam and Eve's children) could have married and not had the problems of deformities in their offspring as might well happen today, if such close relatives married and had children. This is because today humans have lots of mistakes - because of the curse - in their genes. This may cause problems when matching pairs are inherited from both parents, as much more likely with close intermarriage.

The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18–20). Provided marriage was one man to one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 and 2), there was no disobedience to God’s law originally when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.

Remember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.

‘And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and he called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.’

It is clear that all humans, Cain’s wife included, are descendants of Adam. However, this passage does not say that Cain went to the land of Nod and found a wife.

Cain was married before he went to the land of Nod. He didn’t find a wife there, but ‘knew’ (had sexual relations with) his wife.

There could have been many descendants of Adam on the Earth by the time of Abel’s death

Answer 5

Adam and Eve may not have been "the first couple".

According to Hebrew texts, Lilith came first but didn't like Adam being "on top" and said he was to "remain below" or she was leaving him. She is the self-styled first 'free woman' in the Bible.

Read the article..... it is from the original Hebrew test....
It goes on to say that Lilith and her offspring are not subject to the original sin because she had already left the Garden of Eden..!!

But Adam just wasn't that lucky was he?

No children at all with Lilith.

Interesting, both Lilith and Adam & Eve were not the only ones as they both made contact with 'people living by the Red Sea'

Answer 6

Adam and Eve were the first parents. The Jewish, Islamic, and Christian religions hold that all people are descendants from them. According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve had 56 children. This was possible, in part, because Adam lived to be 960 years old
But it is not mentioned in the Bible how many children they had after the three boys Cain Abel and Seth

Answer 7

Here's the theory I'm stumbled on:

What made Adam and Eve so special was that they had a soul, a neffish. There could have been other humans, other beings around with Adam and Eve could have lived. What made them so special and separate WAS this soul.

When Cain killed Abel, he could have gone out and found a family with those other beings that were living. Adam and Eve probably did have a few daughters, yet the authors of Genesis omitted them because their world that a patriarchal society.

Answer 8

Yes. But I agree with you about the origin of the species. In theory the A & E theory is correct. They can trace all of our genetic strains back to a single gene, the "eve" gene which spawns the thought that our entire human race started with one female who had modified genes and one male. From there they bread into the populations.

As far as I am concerned, there was some intervention somewhere in the creation of humans. We just do not fit in place here.

Answer 9

Hello... =)

It was common for the Jewish elders who chronicled the ancestors of David (all the way back to Adam) to only record women in marriage, and not in Birth. It is assumed that many couples had many daughters, but simply weren't mentioned.

So, yes, in addition to the two sons of fame, there may have been many daughters.

We also hear tales of the "Nephilim"......which the Bible describes as "the sons of God "knew" the daughters of man", and begat the Nephilim. They were thought of as giants, and truly, the Giant that David slew was a Nephilim. I would assume that these creatures were supposed to be born from the union of human women and angels..... I've always thought of them as "neanderthals".....

I am not a creationist, however, but I do accept the creationist belief as "equal in merit" to any other. Just a lot sillier...

Tibetan mythology gives the story of the origin of man as the mating between a monkey and a female yeti.....which is even sillier.

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 10

According to Genesis 5:4 Adam had sons and daughters