If Adam & Eve were the first people & they only had sons(Cane & Able) how did they go & find wives?

Question

Lets be honest we evolved from single celled ameba & religions only purpose is to scare people in to being good. . . . . we have the law & police folk to do that now so religion has no place in the modern world.

Answer 1

they mated with their siblings or with eve e.g. incest
maybe that's why the human races is so screwed up all that inbreeding cant be good!
eeww going with your sister yuck

Answer 2

I can't judge the sincerity of your question, but I'll answer anyway. Genesis chapter 1 through chapter 2 verse 3 is an overview of the 7 days of creation. Chapter 2 verses 4-25 is a more detailed account of God's creation of mankind.
In Genesis 1:28 God gives the command for Adam and Eve to fill the earth (be fruitful and multiply). From this moment to the story of Cain and Abel in chapter 4, we do not know how much time elapsed. We know that Adam lived over 900 years and that they were told to fill the earth; so we don't know how many children and grand children were born before Cain and Abel (no where does the scripture say that they were Adam and Eve's first children); so at this point, there could possibly be thousands of men and women spread across the land. Also, Genesis 3:20 tells us that Eve was the mother of all living. To those of you that would consider this incest, this took place over a 1000 years before the law was given to Moses which condemned incest. This was God's way of filling the earth with humanity.
Time and space would not allow me to get indepth with this subject, but I've tried to answer with respect toward your question, which is a good question.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were long before the law and were different from us in many ways. they did not have the law to tell them what sin was the bible teachs that without law there is no sin. however without law there was no growth to become more like God. So while Adam and Eve ate of the tree of Knowlege of good and evil it was there first transgression against God as that was disobedience to God all of this was an example of the law that was to come. Now understand that even though the transgression was a bad thing it had a good outcome as they did aqure knowlege and later would aquire the law and would be less like the animals and more like God. Now also understand that Adam and the people of that day lived well over nine hundred years therefore the weded children grandchildren and great grand children and so on could be fairly distant relatives. none the less where there is no law there was no sin and those folks were not the same as you and I. Now God gave man the law not because man could live up to it but to show him that he could not. The bible teachs all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. But God knowing this provided a way for his people by coming to the world as a man and overcoming sin and dieing as an atonement for all who accepted it. each of these steps were a progression of man. the man befor the law the man under the law and the man who lives under grace. The next progression of man will be when he is granted a new perfected body. God is the same today yesterday and tommorow but mans realtionship wiht god changes and man himself changes.

Answer 4

Hilariously funny. If Adam lived 900 years he would not have done much begetting after the first 100 years, and just imagine the state of him by the age of 200!

Answer 5

Is it so hard to understand? All the stories in Genesis before Abram are of the nature of myths - a story with a kernel of truth, intended to offer an explanation to an unscientific people of an observable fact.

The truths they believed in and conveyed in story form included:
God made the world;
man introduced evil into paradise;
there was a flood;
it is wrong for man to try to compete with God.

This is not science or history or biography or genealogy as we demand they be written to day. This is a primitive people offering a framework for belief in the best way for their contemporaries to understand. Look behind the words to the essential meaning before making any judgements about how right or wrong they were.

Answer 6

It's interesting that the Christians seem to be adamant that Adam and Eve had other children not mentioned in the Bible, while often totally rejecting other inferences made about things not specifically mentioned in the Bible (i.e. whether or not Jesus had siblings, and probably more importantly, whether or not he was married).

It seems that even Bible literalists need to go outside the text to support their world view. Interesting indeed.

According to the Bible "Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch"

It seems to me that if there were lands 'East of Eden' that had names, and populations of people - perhaps Adam and Eve weren't the only people on Earth - merely the only ones 'made in God's image' - that is, the only ones with a soul and true sentience. The only ones that could be saved.

I don't believe that, and I'm hardly a biblical scholar, but that's how I would interpret those parts of the Bible were I inclined to Bible literalism.

Answer 7

If you read the Qu'ran, which also has a story of Adam and Eve, they bore Cain, Abel, and a daughter. In this story, Abel becomes a successful Shepherd, and is given his sister to marry. Cain becomes a farmer and has no one to marry. But that doesn't explain how Cain was married and bore children, which Genesis said he did.

Answer 8

Genesis 5:3 explains how Seth and Cain had wives

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

Answer 9

I think this question comes up at least once a week.

According to extra-biblical texts (this is not found in the Bible), Adam and Eve had many children before Cain and Abel. In fact, they probably had a whole generation of children before these two famous ones were born. The Bible mentions them because their story is important.

When Cain was exiled, he went to the land where some of his brothers and sisters lived and married either a sister or niece.

Answer 10

Cain and Abel were the only children mentioned maybe. But its assumed that Adam & Eve had other children. I assume they had at least two daughters.
Likewise it is assumed that Joseph and Mary had other children besides Jesus.

Answer 11

You might want to read the rest of the book of Genesis.

Genesis 5:4
After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.