ok i know this is a weird question but if we are children of adam and eve does that make us all incest?

Answer 1

"Incest" is a legal term. In state (A) it may be illegal for cousins to get married while in state (B), that is perfectly acceptable. It is not incest in state B.

But this leads into a legal tangle: If the couple then moves from state B to state A, is their marriage null and void? And if they continue to live as husband and wife in state A, should they be treated as criminals?

No, it is not incest since in all countries, the prohibition does not go beyond first cousins. So, if my mother and your father are first cousins, that makes us second cousins. Let's get married! No incest here.

Answer 2

We are all related anyway. Human beings are all part of the same species, which means we have a common ancestor. That's
One
Single
Ancestor.
The first couple of humans, whether you call him Adam or her Eve or not doesn't matter, the fact is they were real, whether you are an atheist, a geneticist or a biblical scholar. There really was only one starting point for us, and it wasn't all that long ago. All men share a common ancestor from Africa about 60,000 years ago. No people on earth currently are further apart than 23rd cousin or something like that.
We travel around a lot, that's why we have such long beautiful legs that take up almost half our body. In our travels, we meet exciting, exotic and attractive strangers and have children with them. Or have a war, capture some of them and have kids that way, whatever. We are all, almost literally, brothers and sisters under the skin. So, it's probably better to reserve the term "incest" to mean sex within the actual immediate family, rather than applying it to 2nd cousins, 3rd cousins, or your father's 4th cousin twice removed on his mother's grandfather's side by marriage.
Besides the fact that humans are travellers, we also settle down in isolated communities for centuries when we find a safe place. Those isolated communities survive without any genetic input from the outside for a long time. So after say, two thousand years on the island, everybody has the same last name, the same big nose, the same straight hair. Might as well be incest, since the girl you marry is almost identical to your real sister.
Natural disasters tend to winnow down the available gene pool for mating purposes, which is another reason why we are all so closely related to each other. Current research has established that human beings are genetically highly homogenous, that is the DNA of individuals is more alike than usual for most species. One study puts our most recent common ancestor at only a few thousand years ago - between 15,000 and 6,000, leaving very little time to get away from our cousins, genetically speaking.

Answer 3

First, realise that when Adam and Eve were alive, and for many, many years afterwards, the book of Leviticus had yet to be passed down to the people, since the Jews were not even a people yet. Leviticus contains God's laws regarding many of our "taboos", including who you cannot marry. So while yes in retrospect it would seem to be incest (for their children's offspring anyway), no such religious law existed at the time.

Of course, by now we are all so seperated by lineage that at best we're all very, very distant cousins. Which, by the way, are not prohibited by Leviticus 18.

Edit: To address an earlier answerer, 1st cousins is not incest, by biblical or any other religious standard. Islam has virtually the same standards, except that they also go so far as to condemn the marriage of one's grandparents, which should go without saying!

In many states 1st cousin marriages are legal, and the scientific "evidence" showing a higher rate of deformities in children of such unions are practically superficial, showing an increased chance of less than a tenth of a percent.

Answer 4

The other question that goes with yours is the question of, How did anyone get here if Adam and Eve's children were both boys? The only answer I have gotten from anyone was a church of christ couple who say that adam and eve were the first people created but not the only people. That there were others created too but they were not mentioned because they were not the first. I guess we may never know.

Answer 5

Nothing weird about it but first you'll have to prove that there were no other males on Earth at the time or that the story of Adam and Eve was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth which is only a matter of opinion shared by many but not all.

Answer 6

It would.

Edit: There appears to be much avoiding of the question. Whether incest only became illegal later does not remove the repulsive aspect that the daughters of Adam and Eve must have had sex with their brothers in order to spawn the entire human race.

Answer 7

were not all children of Adam and Eve. They were just the first people on earth

Answer 8

Yea it would LOL! But check this out when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ you become Gods child, and that is different than incest.

Answer 9

Nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

your allowed to marry your third cousin or even in some states you can marry your first. so that isn't incest by the dictionary term.

Answer 10

No. How can I BE incest? You are right this is a weird question.