So Adam and Eve had some kids.  Then what?\n\nWhere did the next babies come from if there was only Eve?\nIf another girl,  who was the father of the next generation?\nWas it incest ok back then? Thanks if you know.\nIf you don't know, I like your opinion.\n\nStef
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That is a great question that we will unfortunately never find the accurate answer to.\nAlthough, it only says in the Bible that Adam and Eve were the FIRST man and woman God created...I don't think it ever said they were the ONLY one's he created, if your looking for answers regarding the Bible.\nI'd also like to add that genetically, it's next to impossible to have a healthy child created in incest, especially as close as brother and sister. If those problems exist now, then reason says they would exist way back then as well. So, I think either God created more people, or Adam and Eve were the first "modern humans" along the evolution chain. I'm a bit undecided about it since I believe in God along with evolution...kind of weird, huh?
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Let's do a quick thought experiment.\n\nIf I cut off your thumb, would your children be missing a thumb?\n\nNo?  Then maybe Adam was missing a rib, but why would all of his descendants be missing one too?
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With dumb questions like this one, I'm beginning to wonder... But no, there were other people around besides Eve and Cain at that time.
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Mary & Joseph were "betrothed".  In the Jewish culture of that time a man & woman were promised to each other and then he set to make a home for them.  Once the man had a home & funds for his bride he would go and get her and there would be a wedding feast and they would be married and could consumate their marriage.  \n\nJoseph, after being visited by an angel, took Mary as his wife but did NOT consumate the marriage until after Mary's time of uncleaness after childbirth was complete.\n\nSo Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to the Messiah.  She also had at least 4 other children.  (Would anyone REALLY consider perpetual virginity a blessing?  Especially if you were Joseph?  "Yea Joseph, as a reward for you believing the angel, marrying a woman pregnant not with your child, and raising that child you can NEVER has sex with your wife or be blessed with children of your own"  Some blessing!)
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1. What happened with Adam and Eve was necessary, but it was a transgression.  If Adam and Eve never would have eaten the forbidden fruit, none of us would be here. They would still remain there in the Garden of Eden in the innocent state that they were in, not knowing good or evil, joy or sorrow, etc.\nAdam and Eve did repent of their transgression, but that really doesn't effect us. God holds each one of us responsible for our own sins, and not for what Adam or Eve did.\n\n2.  Newborns are born pure and innocent.  Until they grow and learn right from wrong they don't have the capacity to commit sin.  But once they are at the age where thy can tell right from wrong, they are accountable for their own sins.
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When a child is adopted by a non-blood related couple... does the child still call the new parents Father and Mother?\n\nWhen Jesus was a Child... I truly doubt that he would address Mary as ..." OI! Mary!" or Joseph as " Hey! Carpenter man!", he would address them both as their earth father and mother.\n\nIf calling Mary, "Mother" is good enough for Jesus, the very Prince of Heaven, why is it not good enough for others who follow his path? Unless of course they think they are better than Jesus Christ......
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I suggest that you read that love letter. For instance:\n\nAnd the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters\nGenesis 5:4\n\nAdam and Eve had at least 7 children. Cain, Abel, Seth, sons which means at least 2 more boys, and daughters which means at least 2 girls. They probably had many other children that are not listed because they are not needed in the geneology of Christ.
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One might think that after the murder of Abel, only his guilty brother Cain and their parents, Adam and Eve, were left on the earth. However, Adam and Eve had a large family. According to Genesis 5:3, 4, Adam had a son named Seth. The account adds: “The days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” So Cain married his sister or perhaps one of his nieces. Since mankind was then so close to human perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the health risks that may imperil the offspring of such a union today.\n\nAdam was cast out of Eden into an unsubdued earth that was cursed to produce thorns and thistles, there to sweat out an existence, harvesting the bitter fruits of his sin. Outside the garden, awaiting death, Adam fathered sons and daughters, the names of only three being preserved—Cain, Abel, and Seth. To all of his children Adam passed on hereditary sin and death, since he himself was sinful.—Ge 3:23; 4:1, 2, 25.\n\nConsider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. At Genesis 4:1, 2 we read: “In time [Eve] gave birth to Cain and said: ‘I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.’ Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel.” As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?\n\nThe solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces. At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.\n\n\nSeth may not have been the third child of Adam and Eve. According to Genesis 5:4, Adam had “sons and daughters,” some of whom may have been born before Seth. Seth is worthy of note because Noah, and through him the present-day race of mankind, descended from him, not from the murderous Cain. At the age of 105 years Seth became father to Enosh. Seth died at the age of 912 years.
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Cause according to the bible (which was originally written in Hebrew but mostly read in English these days) - the world is less than 6,000 years old. So, if we had Adam and Eve around 6000 years ago, we should all be their descendants - millions of yours....
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Anyone who believes Adam and Eve were the only two people on the earth, has not read their Bible very carefully. There was a civilization in the land of "Nod". That is where Cain went to find his wife and build his own city. Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the Hebrew race
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Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years. By the time Cain and Abel took wives there were sisters, cousins and second cousins all over the place. Remember, there was no TV yet.
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This is more a response to your WW2 question but i messed up and it wont let me post\n\nI love the way people esp. christians never understand questions. Its f*ing obvious what you are asking. I get similar crap answers to my questions too. I once asked why other groups i.e non jews had forgotten the 'true' creation story, if indeed they are decedent from Adam and Eve. why did only the jews remember these events? I got answers like " well I'm a Christian and not a Jew and I remember the Adam and Eve story" f*king hell, that's what we are dealing with here dude.
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this is exactly why i don't believe in adam & eve.  i think adam & eve are SYMBOLIC of the first men & women (plural) on earth.  i think that God created evolution & set it in motion.  therefore, dinosaurs came first, and humans evolved after.  we can call those first people "adam & eve."
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that's a great question! I'll be watching this one for answers.\n\nin reponse to solitaire matrix - so adam and eve's offspring had to reproduce, who'd they reproduce with???
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i get what youre saying. kind of like "what came first? the chicken or the egg??" obviously there had to of been a chicken to make the egg. so adam and eve came first in my opinion. it makes perfect sense\n\nmany will not understand that and will never want to. so dont get upset if they badmouth your question.
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No, Eve was not created with Adam.  There is the legend of Lilith, the first woman, she refused to do what Adam told her and she flew off to eventually marry Salathiel (an Angel gone bad) and they had some hellashish creature babies.  OOOOOO now the Christians are gonna jump me, they ought to check out how many of each kind of animal was on the ark, and who really killed Goliath, and were did the Sons of Anak come from if all the giants died in the flood.  Just a few inconsistencies in that great book.  But I believe in what is right, my own version, and if their versions every denomination can be "the way," then so can mine, but only for me!  Thanks man, this was fun.
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Adam and Eve were created perfect in every way. Their children would also, no doubt, be born physically and genetically perfect. Therefore, Cain's wife could be one of his sisters with no problems. Likewise, many of Adam and Eve's children would have inter-married with no problems. \n"None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. " (Leviticus 18:6).\nGod does not condone near-relative marriages. Had God's command to Israel been given to Adam and Eve, and they and their children all obeyed it, mankind would have quickly died out. God, therefore, had to temporarily allow intra-family marriages to increase his earthly family. \n By the time of the flood severe genetic weaknesses had likely set in, making close-kin marriages impractical, so after the flood God reduced the life span of mankind to seventy years. This would prevent another population explosion of the pre-flood magnitude. (Mathematicians have calculated a billion people may have died in the flood.)\nOne might wonder why genetic weaknesses set in. It's obvious Cain didn't care about God's law, else he would not have murdered his brother (Genesis 4:8; Exodus 20:13). If he disobeyed God in this matter, he likely disobeyed God in matters of diet (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14), and ate whatever pleased him.