If humanity started with Adam and eve aren't we all children of incest??????

Question

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Answer 1

We're all a bunch of inbreds from the "Eden" in the Ozark Mountains!
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Answer 2

Not really, at least from a Biblical standpoint.

You must remember, that incest is a social constraint (not that I don't agree with it!); Biblically speaking, we didn't have a God-given law regarding incest or its definition until the Torah was given to Moses, many generations after Adam and Eve. You can't break a law that doesn't yet exist :-)

Answer 3

In a way yes. The concept and understanding of incest only comes out when there are already lots of people in the world.

Answer 4

Let me share with you what I was taught in my Old Testament class in college at a large, conservative Christian university. Theologeans supposedly widely accept the understanding that the story of Adam and Eve is an allegory, a story invented to teach a lesson. The Babalonians originally invented the story but in the context of a multi-god theocracy where the leader of these gods was Marduk (similar to Zeus in mythology).

But enter the Hebrews who wanted their single-god theocracy to take over with Yahweh as the one true god. They knew the people would not accept too much change in their beliefs (which they had held for centuries) all at once, so they borrowed the story of creation from the Babylonians but inserted Yahweh as the leader or creator versus Marduk and all his companion gods and goddesses.

If you think about it, this reconciles how we had cavemen for which we have physical proof, discovered and analyzed long after Genesis was written. Were not cavemen around before we supposedly had Adam and Eve, two ostensably thinking, reasoning people who could talk with God (and typically portrayed as non-hairy beings walking upright with Brittish accents and certainly not knuckle-walkers). Actually, there was no "Adam" the person. The word "Adam" in the original text and language literally meant "mankind". So the story of Adam and Eve as an allegory was meant to represent the first of mankind -- a group of people -- to have advanced to the level of achieving god-consciousness, but was not written as a literal translation of what supposedly happened with the first man and woman to walk the earth.

If you grew up learning the story of Adam and Eve in church, this explanation may blow you away. It did me too. But it was not just one professor's theory -- this is what is widely accepted in many theological circles. It does make sense and is based in history, but choose to believe what you will. And don't let me pull you from your faith if you are believer in lthe literal interpretation of every word written in the Bible which is a collection of works written by many different people over centuries and later assembled into one group based on their ability to tell a more cohesive story of God, then Christ, etc.

Answer 5

I see no reason to believe that humanity started with Adam and Eve. Christians didn't even accept the book of Genesis as Scripture until well over 100 years after the founding of the Christian religion, and even then it was understood figuratively.

Answer 6

Incest is one thing, but how would a couple of white people produce a black child is total mystery!

Answer 7

The gene pool was perfectly pure and wouldn't cause so many problems like it would today, and God didn't say anything against insest untill a while later.

Answer 8

Define incest.

Answer 9

By and large. Why do you people seem to get a perverse satifsfaction from acknowledging this? That's the only way the human race could multiply. The gene pool was perfectly pure then - not so today.

Answer 10

Well according to the Creatonist Museum...yes, we were.