then wouldn't that inherently mean that there was incest early in humanity? Otherwise, how would it all multiply? If there were two families, then there could be no incest, but with Adam and Eve begetting say six kids. Necessarily, there would have been incest to multiply families?
2007-10-26 16:48:26 · 52 answers · asked by h 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All I know is... before Eve came along it was a man's world. Now look at it.
But then, I have a question:
If Adam and Eve were the first persons on Earth... did they have a belly-button?
2007-10-27 16:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by Jay9ball 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since Adam and Eve were the first (and only) human beings, their children would have no other choice than to intermarry. God did not forbid inter-family marriage until much later when there was enough people that intermarriage was not necessary (Leviticus 18:6-18). The reason that incest often results in genetic abnormalities in children is that when two people of similar genetics (i.e. a brother and sister) have children – genetic defects are far more likely to result because both parents had the same defects themselves. When people from different families have children – it is highly unlikely that both parents will have the same genetic defects. The human genetic code has become increasingly “polluted” over the centuries as genetic defects are multiplied, amplified, and passed down from generation to generation. Adam and Eve did not have any genetic defects, so that enabled them and the first few generations of their descendants to have a far greater quality of health than we do now. Adam and Eve’s children had few, if any, genetic defects. As a result, it was safe for them to intermarry. It may seem strange or even disgusting to think of Cain's wife being his sister. In the beginning, since God started with one man and one woman, the second generation would have no choice but to intermarry amongst themselves.
2007-10-26 16:59:15 · answer #2 · answered by amber_lanae28 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is so weird. I was just wondering about this today also. As far as I can tell, you"re right. Man could not have multiplied without incest. I've read in the bible about a brother having raped his sister. If this never happened, life would have ended when Adam and Eve died. Yet this is sinful to do this it happened. I can't immagine what God thought about this, I only see that he allowed it in order for the world to be populated.
2007-10-26 17:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by JR 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The story of Adam and Eve was developed by people who know A LOT less about the world than we know today and that is why it's so full of holes.
If we were all related, then why aren't we all black? (since it's widely agreed that human life began somewhere in northern africa) How do we explain fossils that are more than 10,000 years old (which is the earth's approximate age according to the bible). Where do dinosaurs factor in?
If Charles Darwin is right, you won't have to worry about incest.
2007-10-26 17:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by greensirena 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some questions are those that require faith in the unknown. The fact is that breeding amongst members of the same immediate family was required. Incest is a term that was coined through our hosed up language over a few thousand years and is being used here to make the process of populating the earth sound dirty. If you use the same thought process up to current, then everyone on the face of the earth is incestuous because we are all sleeping with our cousins.
2007-10-26 17:00:57 · answer #5 · answered by shreditspot 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Divine Law of that time permitted Adam and Eve to incest and there children also had different laws.
Atheists would laugh at this opinion but the reason they do m is out of my head!
2007-10-26 18:59:43 · answer #6 · answered by Acid 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bloodline exists today because of incest. It has kept the blood pure. Their favored are the offspring resulting from paternally related parents. Adam or Adamu was the name of the first humans, the name refers to a race of people rather than one man.
2007-10-26 16:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if this would to happen or if it is true, then every person on this earth are related. Isn't that a thing where brother and sister were sleeping together to create more children, so we're related as brother and sister. So why we have so many different race, and prejudice against each other because of our skin. I'm mean did any body have the fact tath adam and eve were even existed, or what colored of skin they're were, and how people think that they were pale skin and not colored.
2007-10-26 16:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by teo t 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Incest as you know it, 6073 years later, but years 2513 to 2515 is when the laws of the land and the laws of God brought forth the incest law as dwarfs,
hunchbacks and giants were from genetic defect, so before that there was no incest law.
We are the same relatives today as back then, so 3558 years ago, Moses gave laws that still apply today.
2007-10-26 16:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Fundies" will not say God allowed incest - God would not.
"Fundies" will say that there were other people living in other places - including females who were not related to Cain and Abel - Adam and Eve's only two children were sons. Would have been tough with two sons.
After the fall other people existed - remember people lived hundreds of years then as well. It is not a stretch.
Why is it that so much misinformation gets elaborated on or fabricated and the just gets ripped into as fact.
It is irresponsible - as in "Rogues" response.
2007-10-26 16:55:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋