why is it possible that we are here today if the bible says that Adam and Eve had just three male children?

Answer 1

they had sex change operations

Answer 2

The genetic lineage would not have allowed us to expand as a species. Therefore the bible is not true when talking about adam and eve. Remember, God only spoke to Moses via a burning bush, and that was for the 10 commandments. No one ever heard God tell about the creation of Adam and Eve. That part is pure wishful thinking and story telling.

Answer 3

>>Why is it possible that we are here today if the bible says that Adam and Eve had just three male children?<<

The Bible DOESN'T say that. There were other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4).

And atheists wonder why we think they don't know the Bible...

Answer 4

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
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Answer 5

Even though only these three males are mentioned by name, Adam and Eve had other children. Jewish tradition teaches they had 33 sons and 23 daughters. Bible commentators have estimated that at least 120,000 people could have been alive on earth within only a few hundred years.

Answer 6

It is possible because what was written in the bible was not meant to be taken literaly. Adam and Eve were used to explain evolution to earlier people. There's absolutely no way they wouldve understood! And even more impossible for Adam and Eve to populate the whole earth with so many different races. No matter how many children they had, such a thing will never literaly happen.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve had children who aren't explicitly mentioned in the text. Adam and Eve were probably genetically perfect, so there was no scientific reason that their children couldn't reproduce together to make healthy offspring. Morally, there was no Torah yet and humanity was at a different level than we are at today, so incest wasn't perverse.

Answer 8

The Bible doesn’t state that. Adam and Eve had many children. The focus was on Seth because it is through his line that all present human beings come from.

Answer 9

The Bible names three sons,but that doesn't mean that there weren't any more.Since Adam & Eve lived for hundreds of years,it's very possible that they had many children.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve had both girls and boys. The bible focuses on the male lineage that dirrectly leads up to the birth of Jesus. There were few women who were named in the bible that led to the birth of Jesus. Mary His Mother, Esther, Ruth, etc. These women played important roles in the future coming of Jesus, but you must study this and read it in order to understand it.

Adam's sons married their sisters. That was God's plan for populating the earth.

Answer 11

It just named 3 sons, doesn't mean that's all they had. Adam and Eve lived for thousands of years before their fall, they had ample time to get a good start on populating the world. So the sons married sisters, neices, great neices, etc.. which goes a long way in explaining why humanity is so screwed up.