If Adam and Eve were the first ones on the planet, then who did their children marry ? No Bible verses or anything like that, please, just explain in your own words.
2007-10-18 01:35:22 · 19 answers · asked by I Pity You Fool!™ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow, 17 answers in 12 minutes. Great.
2007-10-18 01:51:36 · update #1
Incest. It wasn't that uncommon at the time. Look at the story of Lot and his daughters, they laid with him just so they could both have children to carry on the family.
2007-10-18 01:43:29 · answer #1 · answered by ~Niecey~ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is an argument that Adam and Eve weren't the only ones created - just the only ones listed as created, however this argument becomes irrelevant with the assertion that only Noah's family survived the flood, reducing everything to only one family's bloodline.
Who did Noah's children marry?
The standard response now is that 'god made it possible for them to interbreed without side-effects'. Well, okay...... If this is true and biblical, why was this not an argument before science proved how two parents do not make a viable gene pool? The answer is obvious - science advances and religion introduces a new, spurious argument to dispute it.
2007-10-18 08:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible states that Eve is the mother of all living.But since God conciders those who are in Christ as"spiritually" alive and those that are not in Christ as "spiritually" dead,then Eve is the mother of all living(spiritually speaking)because through her womb came the messiah.However,I believe Adam and Eve are seperate creations from the sixth day creation.It states in Gen1:27 that God created male and female in his image,and he gave them dominion over the creatures of the earth.I believe that this was the creation of all the different races on earth.They were to be fruitful and multiply.And so they did.Then God rested on the seventh day.He did not create Adam until after the seventh day,which I call the eighth day creation.If you take into concideration that a day is as a thousand years to God,and a thousand years a day,(2nd Peter-3:8)then the sixth day creation had ample time to populate the earth.In the account of Noah's flood,since the only humans mentioned are Noah and his family,no one takes into concideration that God said to take two of "all" flesh.Since this is now an account of the bloodline to Christ,Noah's people are the only ones mentioned.So the rest of the races of people could have been present on the ark.This is the only interpretation that makes sense to me.I don't know much about animal husbandry but I do know enough to know that if you breed two pure blood Labs you won't eventually end up with some german sheperds.You will continue to get Labs.So how anyone can think that you could get all the different races on earth from one couple just doesn't compute in my mind.And the tower of Babble just referrs to languages,not race.So,this is my belief,and I won't apologize or waver.I know that with enough scrutiny it can be backed up Biblically.
2007-10-18 09:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well the obvious answer is there off spring married each other . Incest if you like but there would have been little choice.
Another thing to consider the bible doesn't state that god did not create other people , it only talks about Adam and Eve and there off spring.
2007-10-18 08:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by pestie58 the spider hunter 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, Cain killed Abel and then got cast out of the garden to live with the "people of Nod." So there were other people SOMEWHERE. If you look at older translations of the Bible, it has more of an implication that Adam and Even weren't the first people, simply that they were more of a pet expirament of Yaweh's...
Oh, plus--Lilith, man!
2007-10-18 08:42:04 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Does it matter? God killed nearly every living mammal on the planet. Only Noah and a few of his family members survived. That means that 99.9% of all of Adam and Eve's descendants were murdered by god. So who their children married is a rather moot question.
2007-10-18 08:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Their sisters.
Trust me, I think it sounds gross also until you understand sin and deformity.
There was literally no sin in the world at that time. Adam and Eves body was created perfect. so there was no "sin" contamination. They couldn't have carried any mutant genes.
God didn't let this act go on for along time, He stopped it a short time later in Leviticus.
2007-10-18 08:44:11 · answer #7 · answered by witness 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There brothers and sisters maybe. One theory in Genesis it says the sons of God came down and found the women fair and took them, and their children were the Nephalim the giants.
Possibly angels mixed with the children of Adam and Eve.
we will probably never know
2007-10-18 08:45:26 · answer #8 · answered by budleit2 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
ok well god had to make more people so that they could marry dont you see we have all types of different people when he made them he did not stop there
2007-10-25 20:02:40 · answer #9 · answered by ccentoria 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well most likely GOD created others after thay were able to have kids or at least some people were made later own
2007-10-18 08:40:45 · answer #10 · answered by Somone A 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋