Adam and Eve had children, they then had children, we're all related.. right?

Question

Don't get me wrong, i don't believe this is true, its just a pondering question..

so if we are all related.... why is there such a thing as incest anyway?

Answer 1

actually they were the first people god created, does it say they were the only ones he created, maybe he created more people after that!!!!

Answer 2

The story of Adam and Eve is the story of the origins of the Semitic/Hebrew people. The Bible tells the story of the descendants of Adam and Eve who became the Jewish people who's civilization and culture arose in the Middle East.

We know from the Bible's own evidence that Adam's son, Cain, left his parents after killing his brother and settled down in another community farther away from his parents, taking a wife from the women of that village not his sister. This indicates that Adam and Eve were the creations of a local God, whereas these other villagers had a different creator otherwise Cain would have known them instantly as his aunts and uncles, which he did not.

This suggests that the people of Adam's line are the people of the Middle East, not elsewhere around the world. It also excuses the rest of us (who didn't come from the Middle East) from the concept of Original Sin. If we are not related to Adam or Eve, we do not share in their disobedience from God, so we don't have to keep punishing ourselves for their screw-up.

Answer 3

Well, that would be the logical conclusion to reach from the mythology of Genesis. But it is also a valid conclusion without reliance upon such a story. And there are other mythologies and metaphors that reach the same conclusion. For example, many Wiccans refer to Mother Earth or the Great Mother, etc. If they are to be essentially monotheistic in their worship of a mother-goddess, then logically we are all brothers and sisters.

Even from a strictly humanitarian, even materialistic, point of view, it is at least a useful metaphor. We are one species, as evidenced by the fertile marriages of people from very different gene pools. And the whole human genome project makes that even more pronounced. Tracing our biological history alone, we are at least all cousins. That's close enough to suggest that we should treat each other with considerable respect and compassion.

Answer 4

It's a story trying to explain how biologically we are all from the same beginning. All living things start by being one celled, then two, then three and so on. That's all. Adam accounts for the "male" version, and Eve the "female" version. One of each version is necessary for reproduction of offspring. That's about as far as that story should be taken, anything other than that is just plain silly.

Answer 5

Hmmm... Eve was made of Adam's rib... so she must have shared his DNA... but for at least one chromosomal difference....

... Hence Adam and Eve's offspring had an inbreeding coefficient of 1 .... the highest possible.
Now see.... if they had been made perfect then that wouldn't have been a problem... as they wouldn't have had any bad genes to be paired up and cause serious detriment (chances are they were both 100% homozygotes anyway)...

But what it would basically have meant was that all their offspring would have been clones.

I mean... no fear of inbreeding issues.... but we would ALL be the same... but maybe for gender.

O'course... if one accepts that mutation happens.... then that could account for the amount of variability in the world today.... BUT... that would require what we call Evolution.... ^_^ ....


Okokok... I'm getting off the point.
We're all sorta related... but so distantly as for it not to matter. I'm talking MANY generations... and a ridiculously small and insignificant inbreeding coefficient... so it is quite safe. ^_^

Then again... breeding with your cousin twice-removed is fairly safe too... provided your family doesn't make a regular habit of it.

Answer 6

Just look at it this way: What if your parents were Adam and Eve so then - would your future relatives be related becoming more distant than the first? Also keep in mind that Eve(wo'man') was made from one of Adam's ribs so came from a man that was of God's plan for two to become one in the flesh.

Very interesting question...and so another interesting point is that it's also written that we are all our brothers keepers.

As far as incest:
http://www.bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=256

Answer 7

Well the Adam and Eve story is of course just religious mythology, but actually science shows us that we *are* all related - in fact, every living thing on Earth that we've ever discovered is part of one great family tree. Everything is related to everything else by common descent.

Answer 8

Which ever way you look at it, Adam and Eve as it says in the Bible, or Evolution Yes we are all related, and in those days again which ever way it happened we had sex with our sisters, mothers, daughters, who was nearest at the time

Answer 9

I know of nobody who DOESN'T think we're all related (nobody who isn't completely ignorant, that is). Even scientists calculate that the most recent person who is a common ancestor to every currently living person lived only two or three thousand years ago.

Answer 10

The Fellowship of Seekers believes that the Garden Eden was actually a metaphor to describe the battle going on in the Human psyche over the logic or “logos” that humanity would rely on to make decisions and process information. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a symbol of the survivalist mentality or ego-centric thinking model. Eve was tempted as was Satan as would be Jesus some 6000 years later with the temptation of bowing to a mentality of making the ego the primary mechanism of logic they would use in their lives. Wealth, riches, sex, dominance over others, and other physical pleasures that assure the sustaining of the physical body were all offered to allure the human hosts into a ego-centric mindset. While Eve and Satan bowed to this mindset, desiring to be competitive even with God, Jesus bowed to the tree of life. The tree of life in this story is the consciousness of God that pervades through the universe. This form of logic spoken of in John chapter 1, is a mindset that seeks the harmony of all things and is in synergy with the Source out of which we were created. Rather than ego-centricity, its focus is interdependency of all life upon one another. It is communal in nature and is referred to in scripture as the spirit (pneuma, energy) of God. It is in this image that humanity and all things were created. We are made from the very substance (spirit, energy) of God and it in him that we live, move, and have our being.

We believe that the human family was born in multiples through the evolutionary power of God not as two people. We don't believe that there was incest but we do believe that we are all brothers and sisters because we all come from the same source. For more information on the Fellowship of Seekers contact [e-mail]

Answer 11

That's right and closely too. You'll notice in the animal world when species differ as much as a lion and a tiger.It is very difficult for them to have offspring even with artificial means.A horse and a donkey can but the mule offspring is infertile,a hybrid.But humans,we can pop out babies with any race.Easily and it makes no difference which one and never is one a hybrid.
It is easier to trace our roots after the flood from Noah's 3 sons,Ham, Shem, and Japheth.