bible question?

Question

if there was adam and eve and they had 2 children (cane and able) where did the rest of us come from? keep in mind the 10 comandments....would that be insest?

Answer 1

Good question.
No one here can explain that. Ask God when you get to meet Him face to face.

Answer 2

Your question has been posed many times and has been answered in many ways some good some not so good. However you do not know the biblical record Adam and Eve have more than 2 children the third son was named Seth. No, the children from these lines would not be incest at first, yet as population of man would grow then choices would be stipulated in family relationships the same happened again after the flood! However again there was a reason for the law, but it would be to lengthy to go into now. If you want take a course in Old Testament Survey.

But of your question where did we come from you are closer related to Noah and his descendants than Adam. Noah had 3 sons Shem, Ham and Japheth - from Shem came the semites such as Egyptians, Arabs and Jewish races. From Ham came the dark skinnned races such as the moors, africans, spanish speaking peoples - From Japheth came the European races.

Answer 3

Again, you ask a question without reading into it. The Bible clearly states that Adam and Eve had many children after Cain and Abel. Seth was the third son, of whom Jesus is descended from. And yes brothers and sisters married each other and remember it was a custom practiced in cultures as recently as 100 years ago. Incest is not mentioned in the 10 commandments, that is mentioned in the 650 Torah laws. The 10 commandments speak against adultery. Think this way also, of the three sons of Noah, didn't their children marry cousins?

Answer 4

In Nod he not only found a wife but built a city, which presumably he did not do alone. “…and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch”. (Gen 4:17). Furthermore Adam and Eve did not give birth to Seth until after Cain murdered Abel and was banished to Nod. (Gen 4:25).the genealogy in Genesis 5 records that every descendant of Adam down to Lamech had "other sons and daughters," some born to men who were on the wrong side of 180 years. People up to this point in Biblical history had very long life spans thereby substantially increasing their childbearing years, which means there could have been a out-and-out population explosion in a relatively short period of time.

If Eve’s childbearing years were about 500 and they had their first child at about the age of 50 and another child every five years, it is not outside the realm of possibility that he had sisters from whom he picked a wife even before he left. However had he waited to marry until he was about 200 years old, he probably had more than a few women to choose from, some of whom could have left for Nod before he did. In fact the world's population could have approached a few billion by the time of Adam's death at the age of approximately 900, and at least 120,000 people could have been alive on earth within only a few hundred years.God’s laws at the time condemned sexual relations between children and their parents but said nothing about inter-marriage between brother and sister, which apparently did not bear any evil consequences. (Abraham married his half sister.) The more distantly related parents are, the more likely it is that they will have different genetic disorders. Children, inheriting one set of genes from each parent, are likely to end up with pairs of genes containing a maximum of one bad gene in each pair. The good gene tends to override the bad so that a deformity (a serious one, anyway) does not occur. In the time of Adam and Eve the genetic pool was pristine and close marriages didn’t pose the problem the do today. However by the time of Moses (a few thousand years later), degenerative mistakes would have built up in the human race to such an extent that it was necessary for God to forbid close relative marriages, which makes perfect biological sense. Also, there were plenty of people on the earth by then, and there was no reason for close relations to marry.)

Answer 5

They had MANY children. And yes, they intermarried and TODAY we would call it incest.

But the prime reason for laws against incest had to do with diseases passed on through regressive genes. In the earliest years of the world things were very different. The blood of humans was pure and intermarrying was not a problem.

To know how pure their blood was, we need only look at how long they lived and at what ages they were still having children.

Gen 5:25-27

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. 26 And after he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. 27 Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
(from New International Version)

Answer 6

Adam and Eve had many children. The Bible just doesn't list them all. God gave Adam and Eve the command to fill the earth. Being as though they were very close to perfection, God allow brother and sister to marry. Back then, there was no issue with genetic deformaties. Also, God allowed men to have wives and concubines, though the original intent is for man to have one wife.

Answer 7

They did have more than two children...even though they were not all mentioned thoroughly, Adam and Eve also had daughters. The incest thing...no, that is no where metioned in the 10 commandments.

Answer 8

Every one knows that there were other children of Adam and Eve. So the incest thing is common knowledge. Would you feel more comfortable as a mutated ape?

Answer 9

There were no commandments prohibiting incest until the time of Moses. The Bible says that Adam had many children, so i assume that the first people married their relatives.

Answer 10

It probably was incest. Jacob married his cousin... 2 of them. So, it obviously wasn't gross back then.

I recall the Bible mentioning that Eve had another baby. Maybe it was a different person but I thought it was Eve... Maybe I need to re-read that part...

Answer 11

Bible question to you too.

When was the 10 commandments given?

The only commandment given during Adam's time is Thou may eat from any trees EXCEPT the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.