If we all came from Adam and Eve, doensn't that mean their sons committed incest?

Question

Science has proven that inbreeding results in kids that are mentally handicapped. So doesn't that mean that everyone on the planet is essentially related and we're all getting dumber? Sorry if you find this question offensive, but I can't think of any other way to word it. And only serious answers please it's a legitimate question, since so many people take the bible literally.

Answer 1

I got your point and all I gotta say is....we're all retarded, I mean related.
Maybe this is why we as humans can only use half our brains.

Answer 2

do not believe in the Bible. The Bible is a human product. countless the first extreme clergymen and rulers of the old catholic church opt for which books could move the bible after their personal beautiful. some books were burned and destroyed. study a touch about the Nag Hammadi or useless Sea Scrolls. those could've been blanketed in the bible, even if the church rejected them because people ought to verify the actuality and the church ought to free all their money. This replaced into as a aspect be conscious. Adam and Eve were no longer brother and sister, tehnically talking. So, you won't be able to say for particular they commited incest. also, after Cain slew Abel, Eve gave start to their 0.33 son, Seth. After him they'd more advantageous little ones, it really is in simple terms that they weren't said in the Bible. Now, this little ones had incest, because they were definitely brothers. i don't believe of that this matting difficulty made people evil. Evil got here from elsewhere. Edit: Silver Thunderbird, I congratulate you. i ought to no longer verify if I could aspect out something about her or no longer. Blessed be )O(

Answer 3

For everyone to come from Adam and Eve, it is obvious that at least one man had to marry his sister. Cain, the first one of Adam’s sons reported to be married, very likely did so. Abel and Seth may have married their sisters, or nieces, for Adam had other sons and daughters, who, in turn, had children. (Gen. 5:3, 4) There was very little danger then of marked deformities being brought forth in the children, because the human race was much closer to perfection than now. Few bad genes (either “recessive” or “dominant”) would exist. The vigor of the early descendants of Adam is demonstrated in the longevity of men in those days, one reported as living 969 years.—Gen. 5:27.

As the race multiplied, more remote marriages became possible. But again, after the Flood, while men still lived to a great age, Noah’s grandsons, in carrying forward the repopulation of the earth, undoubtedly married their cousins. About four hundred years later, Abraham married his half sister, the daughter of his father, but not of his mother. (Gen. 20:11, 12) When Israel was down in Egypt, Amram, Moses’ father, married his paternal aunt. (Ex. 6:20) These men are neither commended nor condemned for this, since God had not yet given a law prohibiting such marriages. Of course, all along, one’s union with a wife of one’s father, as well as all fornication or adultery, was considered disgraceful.

Then, in 1513 B.C.E., God gave Israel the Law. By that time people were numerous on the face of the earth. And the nations in the land of Canaan, to which God was leading Israel, had become greatly debauched, promiscuously violating everything that was proper and natural by every form of sex aberration, including incest. (Lev. 18:24, 25) God gave laws concerning consanguinity in sex relations, because his people were to be a separate people. This law lifted them to a high level, making them stand out among those seven degraded nations in Canaan.

Israel was not to be free, loose and promiscuous in sexual relations. God specifically prohibited all marriages closer than first-cousin union. Along with bringing about religious cleanness before God, these laws provided protection against the genetic dangers that were then much more prevalent among the human race, more than two thousand years removed from the original perfection of Adam and Eve.