Were Adam and Eve married?

Question

I thought that Adam and Eve were not married. Wouldn't their sexual relations automatically be sin? So why would God tell them premarital sex is fine, then tell the rest of us we're going to Hell for it?

Just a thought, seemed odd to me.

Ah, and I'm not Christian and I don't believe the Bible. I'm happily Agnostic, this just seemed like a good question to pose for thought.

Papa Johnathan brings up another good point--incest. Within a few hundred years the human race would have died out from lack of a deep end of the gene pool. How does one explain humanity still existing when we would have died out so quickly?

Answer 1

God created Adam and then created Eve for Adam to be his mate. Although there wasn't the formal sort of marriage we in modern times understand, that was God's intent for these two; to become one. Of course it isn't sin. God blessed their union and told them to go forth and multiply!

Answer 2

For believers, this one is easy. Marriage did not exist as their bond was made directly by God. Who else did they know to choose a commitment with? Marriage was to establish your commitment with one person through God as the option to be with many came about. As for the gene pool, isn't it also possible that we are a watered down version of a more complex man? Adam and Eve represent the first, but I believe their where others in far off lands. Genesis speaks of this. Even evolutions theories don't deny that evolution can take place in several different species with no connection to each other at the same time. What happens when you cross one breed with another in any other animal? It would take time for the growing populations to reach each other, but they did. There is our diversity and maybe why we didn't die off for the lack of.

Answer 3

Very good question! Nice to see some thought back in here instead of just brains. And thanks for reminding me that I left my Bible in the other room.

God gave Eve to Adam, almost like a present. But God Himself commanded them to be fruitful and multiply, so I think that they had God's blessing. Also, their only rule at the time was not to eat from the tree of knowledge, so Eden was a place of free love on the grass (or against a tree, or in a tree...).

Abraham married his sister; Jacob married two sisters--who he was first cousins with; Esau married a first cousin. This creeps me out a whole lot more than Adam and Eve.

But on the bright side: they didn't have to put up with doing the "YMCA" at the reception.

Answer 4

This is just a paragraph from an article which will answer you question.

"Believe it or not, almost all Christian traditions, and even Jews, accept God the Father as the first "marriage celebrant". There were no other people on the earth to organize an official service with music and the Hokey Pokey at the reception. But, in reality, Adam and Eve had the coolest "wedding" of them all. Here’s why… God wed them through the creation of Eve – she is physically part of Adam and Adam is incomplete until she arrives. Adam then says, "At last, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." They didn’t need a "ceremony" to ask God to unify them; He already did it for them through Eve’s creation. The rest of us have ceremonies, a sacrament, to experience the same type of unity given to Adam and Eve."

http://www.reapteam.org/were-adam-and-eve-married

Answer 5

The thing you should keep in mind when it comes to Adam and Eve is that the whole story is figurative, and is not really supposed to be taken literally.

Adam and Eve is supposed to be the first of human kind. Since they were made from each other (i.e. Eve formed from Adam's liver) they are bonded in a way that Marriage can only represents. They are in the purest sense of the word one.

Answer 6

There was no sin before adam and eve ate the apple. So it would not be a sin. I mean they were the only two people on the planet....Who was he going to run off with? Think about it? Why would you need a contract to affirm you would stay there and take care of her when there was no one else to take care of? Before they ate the apple they lived in god's grace and presence and were innocent. After that they were screwed.

Answer 7

Here are my three ideas:

-God did not mention anything about having children out of marrige until later in the bible.
-When God created Adam and Eve I think he thought of that. They were probably married by god.
-Who could of married them, there was no one else there.

Answer 8

No they were not married. You must take into concideration that god never intended them to reproduce or marry. They only reproduced AFTER eve took the forbidden fruit of knowledge from Satan. By taking the fruit they were able to reproduce, so we should all be thanking Satan for being on the earth, not god.

Hail Satan
Hail Azazel

Answer 9

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;


Gen 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.


Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.


Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.


Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Answer 10

Yes it is odd, and whats more odd is their children all slept together, then those children that were produced, slept together, producing more children, and......well you get my point. The bible is a story, and in some places interesting, but all the same just a story. Wrote by men, with very wild imaginations.


Bright Blessings to you!!!