a question on christianity?

Question

firstly, i don't intend to cause offence, this is bit of a retaliatory question so that i have a counter for the "god made adam and eve not adam and steve" trash that keeps trolling around the lgbt forum.

ok, if god created adam and eve, where did the rest of the humans of the world come from? because to come from these two humans alone, would imply that the human race is born out of incest.

note: adam and eve weren't brother and sister, but all their offspring would be, and there wouldn't be any choice for the offspring to either : procreate with their own brothers and sisters, or pro create with their parents.

Adam and Eve referring to men and women as a group.. that's an angle i haven't thought about, though it could be contorted to mean that no one man or woman was made for the other, which gives credibility to the Adam and Eve story, whilst going against the idea that men and woman were made specifically for each other..

some fairly thought provoking answers

if adam and eve were perfect humans, where did the gene defects come from?

it's merely trivial curiosity at this point

yummygood:
yes, creationism ( the idea that we came from algae via evolution) isn't the same as evolution ( gradual change over millions of years in a species), so evolution isn't necessarily incompatible with christianity.

ocd: i'm not questioning god, i have no problem with christianity as a faith, and i grew up in numerous Christian schools ( including prayer time in the morning and afternoons, christianical teachings in almost everything we did, and christmas plays always revolving around the birth of christ [yes i know that's where the holiday comes from]).

montgomery B, i was raised as a christian, in christian schools and a christian household, yet i'm not brianwashed, does that make..
a) me a super human in my ability to resist brainwashing,
or b) your accusations groundless?

and just so you know, santa claus and rudolph is the commercial spin off of christmas, it hasn't really got anything to do with the original holiday.

an interesting new note:

Apparently, "adam" is translated from the original hebrew scrolls, meaning "man", and Eve, is translated from "life" (and is gender neutral).

so that means that in the original hebrew texts, it referred to "men", not a name.

perhaps the name has come as a result of the many numerous translations of the bible to get to todays version?

Answer 1

You answered your own question...

God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply"

Incest was NOT an issue in the pro-creation process.

And after the flood He said the same thing to the sons of Noah........replenish the earth.

Answer 2

First of all, a little etymological verification. The origin of Adam's name does come from the original Hebrew, but is derived from the word 'adamah' which means earth or soil. As the first man was formed out of the soil, he also took his name from the same place.

A scientific answer that I heard recently is linked in to the x and y chromosomes, in that there were no genetic abnormalities in the beginning. This is because neither Adam nor Eve had been born. Their children would then have had a few generations to procreate and intermarry before genetic abnormalities which we now associate with incestuous relationships occurred.

The first three 'male' children were Cain, Abel and Seth. After the murder of Abel, Cain was banished to the land of Nod and started his own family and tribe. He could easily have taken a sister as the androcentric nature of Genesis hardly noticed the existence of daughters, let alone give them a name.

Adam lived to the ripe old age of nine hundred and thirty, fathering Seth at the sprightly age of one hundred and thirty and, so Genesis 5:4 says, Adam then had "other sons and daughters". With eight hundred years of possible procreation ahead of him, this would be enough time to start his own tribe, especially if he had his own daughters to 'lie with'.

All of this however does not address the fundamental issue of 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'. This is a much more demanding question and I would be happy to give you some information on homophobic texts if you were to ask a question around the issue.

Answer 3

God created Adam, a single male human being, and Eve, a single female human being. He enabled them to procreate and fill the earth with human beings. Yes, we all come from incest, if you want to look at it that way. But at the time, they were genetically capable of producing all the races of the world that exist today (with some small changes occurring as groups of people settled in different areas of the world). When the world had been sufficiently populated, then the need for God's special blessing in this area was no longer necessary. The same process was done (whatever process was done) to the animals. All the creatures were told "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth," and God enabled them all to be able to do just that (and it didn't take millions of years, either). It was not considered to be incest, was not counted against anyone as incest, and should not be construed to be incest.

Answer 4

1) The Bible never says that Adam and Eve were brother and sister.

2) The Bible never says that Adam and Eve were the only humans on the face of the earth, but only the *first* humans.

3) The Bible cannot be taken literally in every verse, specially in languages different than Hebrew, the original tongue.

Answer 5

There is a very simple answer to your question.
Gods cannot create life. God does not exist. There are no gods, only in the minds of some people of less intelligence.
I have posed that question before and if you go against the beliefs of christians etc., then expect lots of abuse because they DO NOT WANT YOU TO PUT ANY DOUBTS IN THEIR TINY UNINFORMED MINDS!!
They were brainwashed from a very early age and it is difficult to get rid of the rubbish they were taught as vulnerable children.
The whole concept of Adam and Eve is nonsense.
It was a story that found it`s way into the bible by someone who hadn`t got a clue as to how mankind was brought into existence, so he did the next best thing: he invented Adam and Eve, and various fools thought it was true.
Then, of course, there is Father Xmas, he makes billions of toys per year with only 12 helpers, and he delivers the toys to a billion houses each 25th December, and squeezes his 19 stone frame down chimneys as narrow as only 2 feet across.
Then there are his reindeer, they gallop in thin air across rooftops, he eats fourteen million mince pies, ten million gallons of whisky, port, sherry, or whatever is available.
I used to believe that too!

Answer 6

Your point is? Even if you believe in monkeyology, it is the same. some where at some point in time, some one had to have sex with a sibling to perpetuate the species.
Yes, God created Adam and Eve. period. There could be no one else.
Of course by evolutionary dogma, they got around this by saying that a 'humanoid' female had sex with several 'ape men', and had children to each of them, kind of like a cat having kittens to several tomcats. One litter, but each one with a different daddy. This accounts for the different races, making somebody NOT QUITE human. Which one is it?
I am not kidding on this. Look it up. One of the many psychotic Church of Evolution Denominations.
And you wonder why i left evolution....

Answer 7

It wasn't until the Mosaic Law covenant that incest was defined and labeled as sin.
Being so close to perfection, children born of close family members would not be suseptable to the same kind of genetic affects that we are faced with now.


You asked where the birth defects come from...
When A/E sinned, they were no longer perfect and thus could not pass on perfection to their children, so there was the open opportunity for their offspring to develop illnesses, traits, etc and pass those along to their children to develop what you called defects.

Answer 8

Yes it does, but incest wasn't against the law until god gave the law to Moses some years later. The first people made would have been almost perfect so there would not have been a big problem with genetic defects that we would have now.
That's one theory,of course it could just be that God made other people and didn't feel it necessary to tell us.

Answer 9

If you truly studied the bible, you would know that "incest" before Christ's time was allowed so that mankind would "multiply".

The Spaniards decades ago practiced marrying within the family to keep their investments and inheritance in the family e.g. cousins marrying uncles/aunts, cousins marrying cousins, nieces marrying grandpas, etc. until such practice was disallowed by the Church because of genetic deformities in their offspring. I guess this is the foremost reason why marrying within the family is no longer permitted.

Answer 10

The Bible doesn't say that Adam and Eve were the only people God created, but they are the only ones revealed. The purpose of that was to establish the lineage of Jesus Christ.

Answer 11

As the first humans, in order for the population to grow, marriage and reproduction had to be done with siblings- it was neither a genetic or moral problem.

Additionally, in recent years scientists have conducted a lot of research on DNA found in the nucleus of cells. This DNA is only inherited through females. By comparing mutations in the DNA of the worldwide population, scientists have came to a conclusion. It seems as if all human life descends from one women- and they call her Eve.