Adam and Eve first humans created false???

Question

okay i dont mean to offend anybody or try to be funny or anything but if adam and eve were the first people created and gave birth to the first babies then dosent that mean were all in the same family and also doesn't that mean that were all doing incest. We are all making out and having sex with a member of our family. now keep in mind the bible never said anything about others non related created (I think)and you cant put words in the bible that aren't there. Can somebody shed some light on this? And also with the whole Adam and eve thing were did the dinosaurs come along and cavemen. We have evidence of dinosaurs but not of Adam and eve except the bible. Does the bible mention dinosaurs??? Is the bible a big lie? Now keep in mind i believe in god 120%

Answer 1

You apparently don't believe in math....

Anyways, it was always explained to me this way for the dinosaur thing:

An angel asked God basically the same question you did about dinosaurs and God answered, "don't take days literally, for a second to me is a million years to you and a penny is a million dollars, for I am infinite. To this the angel responded, "Okay can I borrow a penny?" God replied, "Yeah, just give me a second"

The other way is that NOWHERE in the Bible does it say, "and then Jesus went to the bathroom..." but you can be sure that he did (if he didn't you know they WOULD have written it in there as a miracle) just because it's not in there doesn't mean it didn't happen... the thing's big enough without clogging it up with a bunch of pointless stuff... same argument applies to the people who say Jesus couldn't have been married. Look at TubaRain42 for the other stuff.

Answer 2

Like most stories in the Bible, I believe Adam and Eve were an analogy to some early ancestors living in Egypt around 5000BC. The Garden of Eden was the Nile river and the fertile land around it. When the Nile was dry and infertile, God was angry (kicked them out of Eden), when it was rich with nutrients for food, God was happy. Either the Adam and Eve story is a descended of these historical events, or the writers of the Bible were reflecting on those events.

The writers of the Bible were aware of the bones of the dinosaurs. I believe the analogy here comes from the demons and monsters described in different places in the Bible.

The Bible is not a lie, it is just a way of thinking and believing. The writers went of the observations they had and wrote what they believed. The Bible is a book full on analogous stories, it would be very hard for me to believe in it literally.

Answer 3

The idea of "in-breeding" sounds gross in today's world. Laws on the books today about it are concerned with the genetic damage that can occur to the offspring. This was a concern after many generations of human beings. God told people to not inbreed in Leviticus chapter 18. This was after the world population was in the millions. Back in Eden, relations were with relatives initially. People lived for hundreds of years, and God told them to be fruitful and multiply. Adam and Eve had many children, not just Seth, Cain, and Abel. They in turn had many children, and so on. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote, "The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was 33 sons, and 23 daughters." Adam lived to the age of 930. The genetic breakdown wasn't a concern then because Adam was made perfect in the image of God. Have you ever noticed when you get a "papered" dog, a pure breed, it has a much greater chance of genetic defects. The same is true with the human race as generations come and go. The bottom line answer to your question is that Cain married either a sister or some other close relative. Otherwise there wouldn't have been future generations like you said. I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Well first of all, I believe in God also. The Bible does say that Adam and Eve were the first humans created and to my knowledge, yes, we are one family and in ways we do make out with our relatives. But at the Tower of Babel, God split the cultures and languages. I dont know if this means that all of the sudden everyone looked different or not. But to answer your first question, we are one family under God, but the relations are so distant that it does not matter. At the first generations you could mate with close realatives because there was no other choice. God said not to mate with people that are too close in our family now for a reason. The genes are just too close which can cause mental retardation and other defects. The bible does mention dinosaurs in the book of Job. Im not sure what chapter or anything but its in Job where he mentions something that resembles a dragon to us. And cavemen such as neanderthals or early hominids.... i do not know what they are or if mentioned in the Bible. But I do know that we did not evolve from them or anything like that.

Answer 5

I hope your beliefs are better than your grasp of statistics (120%??).
Seriously though.
If you go back far enough, you will find that you are distantly related to any person you have ever met, let alone had sex with.
I am a firm believer in Evolution, I have to interpret the bible as a series of stories written by men of the times. Luckily, as a Catholic, I can believe in both evolution and the bible. Catholics are very progressive in that sense.
As to Adam and Eve. Evolution theory, if taken to its logical point, would tell you that there was an Adam, and there was an Eve, a male and a female to whom we were all related. However, scientists have predicted that they lived about 100,000 years apart.
At some point in history, there was a family of ape-like creatures, with two brothers, one of which eventually led to humans, the other eventually to other apes. Similarly with females. The females have been traced via mitochondrial DNA to Africa as the origin of humans.

Answer 6

Of course it would be incest if the bible stories were true.

But, they are just that: stories. Written by people who knew only their very small part of the world and had no knowledge of science as we know it today. Probably written by people being persecuted by a more powerful majority who needed some stories to help them cope with the persecution. Making up stories of a powerful god who created their chosen people would have made them feel more powerful themselves.

There are no dinosaurs or dinosaur bones in the bible. The authors knew nothing of fossils.

If you don't want the bible to be a big lie, think of it as a big story. But, recognize for yourself that "wanting" doesn't make it so.

Answer 7

Most creationists will tell you that god placed the bones of dinosaurs, and cavemen there so it would look like they had been there for millions of years when in actual fact they have only been there since creation ( a few thousand years ago).

O yeah theres even a creation museum opening soon, which apparently has exhibits featuring Noah taking dinosaurs onto the arc, before the great flood, so im not really sure what to say about that.....
check the link for more info

http://www.creationmuseum.org/about

then go visit it if you want and make up your own mind......

Answer 8

If we were all incest we would all be blue and have pig tails.

No really, in Genesis 1:27 it says that God created Man in his own image. Remember, the Bible was not written in English, boys and girls, this part was written in Hebrew. The word that was used to mean man was, adam. Yes, it's Adam but the meaning of the word in Hebrew is not only one man but an entire species or mankind. Referring to more than one man, even more than a handful of man, but a whole species. Thus allowing people to reproduce without incestry.

Furthermore, in the second story of creation starting in chapter 2 of Genesis, God creates that same "man" as he did in chapter one, the adam (plural). But, in this story, it says that God created man and woman separate. The woman from the rib of the man. Okay, whatever, that's a faith-thing. But the word used in Hebrew to describe the woman was "ishshah". This word just so happens to be the irregular plural form of the word "iysh". Which means another, or man, or a fellow. So God created more than one, plural, feminine fellow for the man, adam, who were already created.

Thus, no blue babies with tails for you because "Adam and Eve" never really existed by themselves. But that's another faith-thing.

Answer 9

Look, Adam and Eve was just a way to explain something the church really didn't know much about, now that we have modern science we know what really happened. I am not questioning the truth of the bible, I just think that with modern information, we should adapt religion to a hybrid with religion.

Answer 10

funny i always wondered the same thing maybe the dinosaurs was what was referred to in genesis 1:1 about the world before creation and there is poof of Adam and eve if you read between the lines of the bible and think about it. and they also found proof of Noah's ark so if Noah and the ark is true wouldn't Adam and eve be true too?

good luck finding the answer and if and when you do share i would like to know what you learned