if adam and eve are the first 2 people on earth... so they would have had children to keep the human race alive, so their children must have bred with each other to make more people, but that makes adam and eve's children incest... the bible is against this....
2007-10-18 00:10:34 · 21 answers · asked by Missy R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
also... i dont believe in god... im an athiest...
2007-10-18 00:17:37 · update #1
also... i dont know 4 sure... but if the children were incest, their children would be nd so on... they would have all sorts of deseases and like 15 fingers nd 11 toes... right? so would the race just be a bunch of freaks?
2007-10-18 00:27:07 · update #2
ppl... i know i dnt believe in god... woteva... i just want to understand the ways of religion a little, im doing an assignment on it
2007-10-18 00:41:59 · update #3
If you want the myth from Genesis explained, there needs not be an explanation to a myth.
but scientifically the first homo sapience humans consisted of one woman and 4 men, or 1 eve and 4 Adams, and that is scientific data, derived from genetic study of the human race.
2007-10-18 00:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Surely being an atheist, this is not your stumbling block so to speak in believing God. lol Anyway ...The most majestic verse in the Bible to me is, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." This is a tremendous verse! I am of the opinion that it is the doorway through which a person walks into the Bible. If that verse is questioned, there will be questions throughout the Book. It is not difficult for me to believe that when God created Adam and Eve that He also, at some point, placed other humans in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden. This is where Cain found his wife--the Land of Nod is where Cain dwelt after he killed his brother, Abel. God never condoned incest. Since God was pleased with Adam and Eve's creation, I believe He simply continued in His creation to prepare for civilization.
2007-10-18 00:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If one looks at the Genesis story, after Abel's death and Cain is about to be expelled (thus there are theoretically only three people in existence), Cain asks god what will happen when he runs into other people... he does NOT ask, what happens when he runs into his yet-to-be-conceived brothers/ssiters/nephews/nieces/etc, people who would have heard of him - but other people. Therefore, even within the context of the story, The Adam and Eve family were not the first/only people, but perhaps the first of the Hebrews, and Genesis is this a creation myth for the Hebrews, not humans in general.
2007-10-18 00:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
progressive revelation is a important part of the bible
did Abraham have more than one wife? Yup
did God punish? nope because there was no law against it yet.
God gave revelation slowly to man.
The bible is not 1500 pages of Gen 1 and 100 pages of the rest.
God revealed his law over time Hebrews 1:1-2
When you read in Genesis about putting blood on the doorposts do you go kill a lamb? No because we now understand what they didn't . It is a picture of Jesus (the lamb of God) Read the bible and understand that God clarified his word over time for us
The old testament says don't commit adultery. New test. says if you look in lust it is just as bad. More revelation and clarified.
II Tim 2:15 study to shew thyself approved unto God
Laws about incest were introduced later.
2007-10-18 00:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The story is a parable. Cain went to the City of Ur and took a wife. There were lots of other people obviously if there's a City! Science clearly shows populations of humans going back hundreds of thousands of years and other species close to human before that. Literalism is the worst form of ignorance.
2007-10-18 00:24:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It says right in Genesis that Adam and Eve were the first, the only, humans God created. It doesn t say anywhere else that He created other humans. His direction or command as it were, was to mutiply. So get as creative as you want that, that is what it says and it s the infallible word of God. Amen.
2015-05-04 06:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply because A&E were not the first two people on Earth, there were all ready males and females (reread Genesis 1:27) which preceeds their story. A&E were allergorical so that certian messages and explanations could be given for our edification.
2007-10-18 00:23:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mmm, good one! Adam (more precisly Adam Kadmon means man of red earth (Wonder where that might be?) (L.O.L.)
the hebrew Y.H.V.H. = Yod means "I am" the other letters give the word Eva. So "I am Eve. Interesting or what?
2007-10-18 00:18:06 · answer #8 · answered by first_pagan_wiccan_church 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?
Yes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.
Obedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.
However, before Eve was pregnant with her first child Cain, both Adam and his wife sinned by disobeying God and were driven outside the garden of Eden. (Gen. 3:1-19) Where would Adam and Eve now live? The Bible tells us: “With that Jehovah God put [Adam] out of the garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. And so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.”—Gen. 3:23, 24.
From this it can be seen that Adam apparently went out to the east of the garden of Eden. It was here that, not only Cain and Abel were born, but the Bible also later mentions by name a third son, Seth. However, notice that Adam and Eve had other children as well. For Genesis 5:4 says: “And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.”
This meant that Cain and Abel had sisters, and possibly other brothers not listed by name. These grew up together as earth’s original family.
Time passed. Finally, following the offering of sacrifices to God by two of the sons, Cain became jealous of Abel because God showed favor toward Abel and his sacrifice, but not toward Cain and his sacrifice. Cain allowed hatred to develop toward Abel and he murdered him.—Gen. 4:1-8; 1 John 3:10-12.
For this wicked deed God sentenced Cain to banishment, away from the rest of his relatives. The Bible says: “Cain went away from the face of Jehovah and took up residence in the land of Fugitiveness [called “the land of Nod” in some Bible translations] to the east of Eden.”—Gen. 4:9-16.
However, notice here that the Bible does not say that Cain found his wife in the land of Fugitiveness. It simply says: “Afterward Cain had intercourse with his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.”—Gen. 4:17.
Where, then, did Cain get his wife? It was obviously from among his own family. His wife was one of his fleshly sisters, a daughter of Adam and Eve. Cain was likely married at the time he killed Abel, or shortly thereafter took one of his sisters as a wife. They then traveled together to the land of Fugitiveness, where they took up residence and started their own family.
“But such a union is incest!” some may object. This objection reflects knowledge of the risk to children when brothers and sisters marry in our day. These are frequently born with some physical deformity or mental incapacity. Thus most lands today have laws forbidding marriage between close fleshly relatives.
It must be remembered, however, that circumstances were different in earlier times. Adam and Eve were created perfect, and the instruction for them ‘to multiply and fill the earth’ would necessarily require that their offspring marry one another and reproduce. (Gen. 1:28) But as perfect humans, their children would have been perfect as were their parents.
Even though Adam and Eve sinned and became imperfect, Cain and his brothers and sisters were still so near to physical perfection that the children they produced did not suffer the same adverse effects as do children born of such unions today. Even some 2,000 years afterward, God’s faithful servant Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, and God did not disapprove. (Gen. 20:12) It was yet another 450 years or so before God saw fit to provide his nation of Israel a body of laws that forbade incest on penalty of death. (Lev. 18:8-17) By that time imperfection had apparently developed to such an extent that no longer was it safe for close relatives to marry.
So, really, the question of where Cain got his wife is not a difficult one. The answer is provided right within the Bible, and it becomes obvious when the Bible account is read carefully.
www.watchtower.org
2007-10-18 01:00:59 · answer #9 · answered by Learn about the one true God 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one can explain this. Besides, there are a lot more inconsistencies to explain in the Bible. Also, in other religious texts. Which is why you probably cant literally believe everything you read
2007-10-18 00:15:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋