After Adam & Eve had children, how did they proceed onto the third generation?

Answer 1

Maybe God created more people, but the Bible forgot to mention them ... or are they the males and females in Genesis 1:27? In which case why did he create Adam separately in Genesis 2:7? And why did he need to create Eve later? It is all so confusing.

Or maybe none of it ever happened and we really did get here by evolution.

Hm, difficult to decide which is more likely.
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Answer 2

My own personal belief is that the bible was written in metaphor. Parables are a very big thing in the book and this does not exclude the beginning. The third generation was written as such because Adam and Eve's children were a new generation so to speak. Adam and Eve may have just been a metaphor to the beginnings of Mono-theism. Prior to this, it is possible that only poly-theism existed, and Adam and Eve were the "awakening" to a single God religion. My theory that the bible is written in parables is also shown in that the world and Earth were created in 7 days. The fanatics still believe it to be possible, but then looking back into the same bible, in Revelations a letter states that one evening in heaven was like a thousand years on Earth. It falls a few million years short of the projected time period that the Earth was created, but this book was written thousands of years ago, and ancients had no concept of the number one billion either. I do not believe that people choose to see this marriage of religion and science as it truly can be. People want to prove every day that God exists, why not do so through science? BTW: it has been reputed by fundamentalists that the world is 7,000 years old. This is around the same time that mono-theism emerged. It is entirely possible that the Bible began the creation story with the beginnings of Mono-theism. The entire reason for the book itself. Great question!! And though I doubt this answer may change anyone's mind, I hope it at least may make someone question their firm belief that they are to take the Bible word for exact word.

Answer 3

Hi,
First; Adam and Eve had many children. Not just Able and Cain who were fraternal twins. There's still much debate about the sixth day creation of Mankind with all the different races. Some say that Adam was created on the eight day, and his son Cain took a wife from the land of Nod, which would mean there were other people there other than Adams and Eves direct children. The fact still remains that Adam and Eve had additional sons and daughters, so even incest was an option. Either way there were plenty of sex partners to go around to further the human population growth.

Answer 4

This is SUCH AN EASY QUESTION! I'm ALWAYS SURPRISED when people don't get this one!

There are 2 different account of man's creation in the Book of Genesis, however, the 2nd one answers your question. The first one said, "he created man" and the second one said he created them, "male and female he created them."

In answer to your question about the 3rd Generation, just go to:

Genesis Ch. 5, verses 3 & 4: When Adam had lived a 130 years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness (who looked just like him), after his image and named him Seth. 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were 800 years; AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. (King James Bible)

Yes, it was incest, but technically these people were JUST 1 generation removed from perfection! Science tells us that it takes 10 generation for a genetic defect to set into a mammal's DNA, which would place the first birth defects at the time of Noah (the 10th generation). In Botany it only takes 5 generations for defects to become embedded. So basically, there WERE NO DEFECTS AT THIS TIME TO PASS ALONG TO ONES OFFSPRING, making intermarraige between close relatives safe until much later. (Which I believe it was around 15 generations when the ban was put in place in the Bible, however it may have been closer to 20, please correct me if I'm wrong, Abraham I believe would have been the 20th Generation).

Answer 5

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.
To learn more on this subject you can go to http://www.answersingenesis.org

Answer 6

It's in the Book. After murdering Able, Cain went south into Africa and married a woman from down there. Since the Bible says only Adam and Eve were created, I guess the humans in Africa must have evolved, like the fossil record shows.
Gosh - that would make both the Creations and the Evolutionists right!

Answer 7

I always hear different stories about that one. A lot of times, I've heard about how there were somehow more children that weren't mentioned, girls, and that incest was how they continued on. The other story is the one about how there were somehow other 'mystery' people living somewhere else and that they got involved. Where these 'mystery' people came from is anyone's guess.

Answer 8

Try and think of it from the point of view of them being the first and only people on the planet. We, like most are thinking of it as how it would be now a days, and that would be wrong.

Way back then incest was not in anyway shape or form as it is now. These were gods children and PURE. So them marring each other and still being brothers and sister would not have been wrong in any way..

Answer 9

The Bible focus in on a relationship with GOD. That is the topic. It was common for the Hebrews to leave out women in there genealogy's and/or the daughters names are unknown. The reason you hear debates have to do with belief. We believers see a perfect book written to us that believe as sort of a users manual for a relationship with GOD. A non believer does not have that relationship and sees a bunch of words that are not relevant or at best convicting and painful to read. We see it as "Of course they had daughters" because we believe. Others see it as. IT IS A FLAW so now I can go sin and not feel guilt. I am afraid that not believing the Bible does not relieve the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
Hope that helps.

Answer 10

It is thought that the story of Adam and Eve is more of an overall spiritual story. It is meant to give us understanding of our creation and fall from grace. The story isn't fiction but it's purpose isn't to record the first two people on earth.

The story of the creation and fall of man is a true one, even if not written entirely according to modern literary techniques. The Catechism states, "The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents"