Just wondering if there was any sexual intimacy between Adam and Eve's progeny -- or was it simply a duty to perform even though there was something unkosher about the whole business.
2007-11-28 17:30:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You'd think God could conjure up a few more dirt people as opposed to forcing us to genetically deteriorate the entire future of the human race.
2007-11-28 17:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
There are two ways to look at this, either way, the beginning is NOT as important as the END..... but anyway, unkosher was NOT something known to mankind then, people were just people, pure etc........ the other way is, Adam and Eve were the *first* the Bible does not say they were the only or the last ones ....... the Bible is not clear on this matter...... what went on after the Garden was off limits is a little fuzzy and unclear... Yes it says the boys married sisters, but that is all it says..... go in peace..... God bless
2007-11-29 01:41:32 · answer #2 · answered by Annie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biblical geneologies show the first 9 or so generations lived over 800 years apiece. They had many children. Even though they came from Adam and Eve so many were born that it gave some biodiversity. After the flood people began to live much shorter lives and more problems came along with any inbreeding.
At first it was populating the planet, but there were those for whom it was lust, check out the story of Lot and his two daughters.
2007-11-29 01:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by LeslieAnn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Uh, they were real people and I would imagine there was some lust there. Sick by today's standards, but this is only a recent development...I mean, come on...the European Royals were all intermarrying like it was going out of style. As for the other post, genetically, all women on the planet can be traced to seven key females (commonly called the daughters of Eve) as these females all came from one common female ancestor. So much for symbolizm here...i suppose you'll tell me the rib thing isn't real either...nevermind the fact that floating ribs can be regenerated and are often used for bone-grafting...
but we just learned this like 50 years ago and the book of Genesis was written about 5000 years ago...
2007-11-29 01:44:48 · answer #4 · answered by Kiker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is, of course, what happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and perhaps it was an unripe apple that made Eve ill. It is not usually understood that she was a little girl and Adam a little boy, because they are always portrayed as mature adults, but they were obviously a couple of kids scrounging around Big Daddy's garden. Having thoroughly satisfied themselves on gooseberries, raw peas, and green apples, they hid between the tomato plants and began to examine each other's private parts. But just then Big Daddy came along and said, God damn it, get the hell out of here, you bastards!
2007-11-29 02:55:14 · answer #5 · answered by greengrass44444 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve were not real people. They were symbols of the delicate balance of masculine and feminine roles that existed prior to our discovery of farming and domestication. The entire story is an allegory to the agricultural revolution. Everything from the apple, the snake, the exile from Eden... it's all a direct metaphor to the biggest turning point in our species' history: the moment we discovered how to control our food supply.
I'm completely serious. It's well documented. Read up on it.
2007-11-29 01:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
If we're treating the story as though it actually occurred to humans, it is difficult to imagine being able to perform the act without being aroused, but I really don't want to think about it.
2007-11-29 01:40:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all children of Adam and Eve.
Every act depends on its very situation and background.
2007-11-29 01:51:05 · answer #8 · answered by Creation 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
suppose you are in very deep love with your partner.. right...
lets say both of you are only one who are staying on the planet..
tellme will you sex with ur partner for lust or for population.....
ofcourse when you both are legal partner.... it will not be called as lust but.. your legal right to have sex with ur partner.. so whatz wrong when Adam p.b.u.h and Eve.. p.b.u.her.. sex with each other? do you call it with lust although they were legal partners..!!
we can use the word lust for those... whoa re not married and looks towards the opposite sex.... with sexual intention only..!!
2007-11-29 01:42:35 · answer #9 · answered by Fiction M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could of been both. Incest was not a sin during this time only during the Mosiac Laws did God see this as sin because of the changing world and the morals and ethics developing among the peoples.
2007-11-29 01:38:57 · answer #10 · answered by SMX™ -- Lover Of Hero @};- 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋