I heard that there are other stories where Eve wasn't the first woman in Eden--any info?
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Her name was Lilith.  I believe, but might be wrong, that it is a hebrew origin.  She was suppose to be Adams first wife, make from the earth.  She wouldn't submit or be subserviant to Adam so god cast her out of the garden of eden.  He then made eve from adams rib.  Alot of things have been said about her like she became a demon, a vampire, evil, etc.  Just go to any major search engine and look her up, the variety of legands are great reading!
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Adam and Eve weren't the first people on Earth, this is a mis-conception that churches teach in Sunday School. There were people here before them but what was special about Adam and Eve is that they were the first people with souls. Look at Gen 1:28 it says replenish the Earth. It did not say fill but replenish. To replenish something it already had to be there. Also consider Cain getting thrown out, Cain was afraid of the other people slaying him so there obviously were other people out there just no one wants to talk about them.
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Seven Lights.  GREAT POST!!  I agree!!!\n\nMainwooly.  I agree even more, with you.  The Adam and Eve story main that we all come from generations of incest and inbreeding.  Adam & Eve have kids...then what?  The ONLY ANSWER is that they had incest and inbred to prepetuate mankind.  And what is REALLY hilarious is that IT HAPPENS AGAIN!!!\n\nRight after the silly story about The Flood!  Noah's Family walks off and WHAM!!  Incest and inbreeding in that Family for generations and generations ONCE AGAIN to perpetuate the species.  AND THIS TIME, not just humans, but every species on the planet!!!  All from incest and inbreeding!!  \n\nWhat utter nonsense!!!
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I am no Bible expert but here goes....\n\nThey say that Adam and Eve were the first humans created, no where does it say they where the only ones created, think about that, if that were so would we all not be the offsping of incest?\n\nAs the people spread accross the world the people adapted and evolved over thousands of years to deal with their environments, including darker skin pigmentations to protect themselves from the sun.
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well mythology speaks of adam as the first human on this planet. hence the answer is man. eve was supposed to be fashioned from adam's rib. so probably she came later!
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From what I've read so far, Lilith was created, but she pissed God off, so He tossed her out of Eden and created Eve.  There's a theory that outside of Eden, Lilith mated with the natural beings of earth, creating the race of men that Cain eventually met up with.
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It's all made up.\n\nAdam and Eve were the first people according to a story in a book called the Bible.  This is a book.  This is one theory of how things began.  It was written by men -   millions....billions of years after the fact.  \n\nThere are many stories about creation.  They are all stories.  None of the authors of these books were around when it actually happened.  Every theory about how man came to be is just that - a theory.  \n\nTo be sure, some theories have garnered much more support and a wider audience than others.  But just because one story enjoys better marketing than another doesn't necessarily make it "true" - it's just true to those who choose to believe it.\n\nThere are over 10,000 religions practiced on the Earth.  (David Barrett, The World Christian Encyclopedia)  Many of them have numerous denominations.  Within Christianity alone there are over 33,830 denominations.  \n\n10,000 religions...10,000 interpretations of how life began.  Which one is accurate?  \n\nThere is the Known.  The Unknown.  And the Unknowable.  Your question falls into the 2nd or 3rd category.\n\nI wish you Peace.
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Good question.......I asked how did Adam and Eve have two sons and carry on the human race. Was it incest? i have no idea.\n\nWe have this idea that Adam and Eve were white (seen in pictures) but who really knows what race they were or if they truly existed. I was told that the bible is theory and it is symbolic not to be  taken literal. So take it for the "story" book it is.
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Hello BibleGuy the answer is simple. It is clearly writen. Gen 5:1-2, Gen 1:26-28.  Cain wife was from Adam, not His father, she was not His sister, Adam was the name of those God created in the Begining and called their name Adam, this is not talking about Adam & Eve who where in the Garden. Adam was the Name of those God created and 1 of Them He chose and Place in the Garden, thus showing His way even from the Begining chosing from Mankind (Adam) to guide and lead the others in the way.  Adam was not just One person but many. Not just One color.  If you like to know more contack me at PastorDoulos@yahoo.com
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The bible really doesn't say where all the other women came from so this is a good question.\n\nI once asked a minister where did the women that the children of Adam and Eve married come from.  I was told they married sisters but back then they were still so nearly perfect from the hand of God that it wasn't a problem genetically. That was a good technical answer but it still left me wondering because the bible doesn't mention any other children of Adam and Eve....
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Cain was the first child of Adam and Eve recorded in Scripture (Genesis 4:1). His brothers, Abel (Genesis 4:2) and Seth (Genesis 4:25), were part of the first generation of children ever born on this earth.\n\nEven though only these three males are mentioned by name, Adam and Eve had other children. In Genesis 5:4 a statement sums up the life of Adam and Eve -- "And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters." This does not say when they were born. Many could have been born in the 130 years (Genesis 5:3) before Seth was born.\n\nDuring their lives, Adam and Eve had a number of male and female children. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote that, "The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters."[11]\n\nThe Bible does not tell us how many children were born to Adam and Eve. However, considering their long life spans (Adam lived for 930 years -- Genesis 5:5), it would seem reasonable to suggest there were many! Remember, They were commanded to "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28).\n\nIf we now work totally from Scripture, without any personal prejudices or other extra-biblical ideas, then back at the beginning, when there was only the first generation, brothers would have had to have married sisters or there would be no more generations!\n\nWe are not told when Cain married or any of the details of other marriages and children, but we can say for certain that some brothers had to marry their sisters at the beginning of human history.\n\nMany people immediately reject the conclusion that Adam and Eve's sons and daughters married each other by appealing to the law against brother-sister intermarriage. Some say that you cannot marry your relation. Actually, if you don't marry your relation, you don't marry a human! A wife is related to her husband even before they marry because all people are descendants of Adam and Eve — all are of "one blood." The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18-20). Provided marriage was one man to one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 and 2), there was no disobedience to God's law originally when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.\n\nRemember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.
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No, I don't believe in Adam and Eve because if it were true, how would different races come about?\nAnd yeah, it would be incest.. lol
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Its a metaphorical story taken from even older texts.  If you read your Bible, it states that the serpent tempted Eve and not Satan.
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thank goodness this attitude is changing slowly but surely. remember in Ancient Times the Ladies were thought to be second class citizens and were the ones who brought sin into the world since Eve was the one who first ate the Forbidden Fruit and talked Adam into eating it. ( if one looks at the same scenario a little differently Eve -- representing the ladies was the one who brought wisdom and knowledge into the world ). before I moved I went to a Church where we had three Lady Ministers who did as good a job and sometimes actually better than men. should be the ability that counts not the gender.
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where would man be without woman ? still in the garden of eden
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A: God is all, not just one sex.\n\nB: Lillith was created in God's image, Eve was created from Adam's rib.\n\nC: Those that created the Bible didn't want you asking questions like that.\n\nD: If this is just one universe in a higherarchy of multiverses, then: God could have got the prototype for woman from another universe with a female God.\n\nE: What part of man was created in God's inmage? The tangable, easily worn out body? Or, the eternal spirit?\n\nAnd if none of these thought do it for ya, please keep searching. The journey is as inportant as the destination.
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Yes, a resounding yes! Eve did have union with the serpent! Of course, you'd also have to check out the myth of the goddess/ demon mother, Lillith, the mythical first wife of Adam, but that's yet another story...\n\nFirst clue...Have you ever wondered why Adam and Eve only had sex - after their fall and not before? Guess who taught the naive Eve about sex? The Serpent!\n\nAnother clue. Have you ever wondered about the phrase 'we were all conceived in sin?' Well, this can be taken literally - as in, we, the fallen humans, were offspring of the union between Eve and the serpent.\n\nNext point. To paraphrase the mystics, it is the serpent that gave Eve - and us - the gift of forbidden knowledge and of mortality, or pointed us towards it. \n\nAlso according to many mystics, Adam and Eve were not flesh and blood, but spiritual archetypes - blue prints of human architecture. Same thing goes for the serpent. Once you can see this, the possibilities are endless, as far as theories go.