Did Adam & Eve's children engage in incest?
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They didnt exist so the answer is no because they needed to exist first in order for the analysis to begin.\n\nWe know they didnt exist because science has demonstrated that we evolved to "humans" we were simply plopped on earth. We know the earth is billions of years old. We have found the remains of hominid life forms and we have shown the process of evolution. \n\nDividing this into macro and micro is silly and the uptiome of rationlization. Sorry, I too wish I was made in God's image.
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As you can see, the people who answered this question don't get what you asked.\n\nIf adam and eve were real, the intercourse between them would have been fine, but the intercourse between their children wouldn't have.\n\nFurthermore, it is enirely impossible for a species to have been wholey propogated from two individuals.  The resultant inbreeding would have extinguished the species.  Or, at least, they'd be too retarded to even know how to breed.
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Two virgin sisters would like to have children, so they get their father drunk, have sexual intersourse with him, and get pregnant. (Genesis 19:30-36)\n\nAn old king can no longer get an erection, so a beautiful young girl is put to bed with him. But alas! even she can't get a rise out of him. (1 Kings 1:1-4)\n\nA woman pretends to be a prostitute and entices her father-in-law to have intercourse with her. He does, and lo! nine months later she bears twin boys. (Genesis 38:12-30)
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Abel had no children (or a wife) and there was more than 2 boys mentioned in the Bible (u forgot seth)- but it is believed with scientific evidence that they had 28 kids (10 boys and 18 girls)\n\nIncest was not an issue at this time because God ordered them to populate the earth. I guess it was a miracle that the children were not born with defects that would be expected today.  But I dont think it was because the bloodline wasnt diluted yet, because you cant get more diluted than people that ARE NOT related, right?  ( I could be wrong )
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Wow, weird how many people jump to this being incest and going on about the DNA problems.  There is no incest here people!!!\n\nMary Jones marries John smith\nMarys mom (betty) marries John smiths Son (paul)\n\nNo blood ties there at all between the two different sexual unions.  The only relationship is through marriage.\n\nIf both couples have a girl (for ease lets say sally and jane) then I think that would make them each others cousin, niece and aunt.\n\nSally would be pauls sister and so the aunt to any offspring of pauls.  This also makes any offspring of her brother pauls her niece or nephew (obviously).  Jane is marys sister and so the same is true, she will be aunt to any of marys offspring hence we have the relationship Aunt and niece for both children to each other.  They are also however the grandchildren of each couple.  Jane is the grandchild of Mary and John and sally is the grandchild of Betty and paul and since the only relationship I can think of between grandchildren normally is cousins I think this term applies here as well.
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I don't think they were. I don't think there was a singular Adam and an Eve, as much of the writing of the times was symbolic, and written to convey an idea, not necessarily fact. That is not to say that it was not a divinely inspired story to show that early mankind willfully disobeyed God.\nTechnically speaking, if they were from the same geographic region as Jesus, they would have physical attributes representing the origins of all races. \nToo many European artist renderings muddy the waters.
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I think that Adam and Eve represent a new beginning in Human-kind.  This next part is kinda nuts but i think it happened.  I think that Aliens landed around or in the city of Babylon, which is the place thought to be where the garden of Eden was located.  Anyways the aliens mated with the more ape like homo-sapiens of that time.  Adam and Eve where the children of this relationship.  Maybe this is the reason for the "Missing Link" in the evolution of man. Just a theory, i usually don't bring up because Christians get really upset about that idea.
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This Scriptural passage discusses three from among the first offspring of Adam and Eve. We know that Adam and Even also had other offspring.\n(Genesis 5:4) And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters. \n\nClearly, Cain's wife was either a sister or niece of his from among Adam and Eve's other offspring. There is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain's wife was of a race of mankind different from Adam and Eve. Similarly, there is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain was of a particular race or that his "sign" was anything more than a public proclamation by God.\n\nSince all of mankind was wiped out by the Noachian flood, none of the names in Genesis chapter 4 can relate to post-flood nations.
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yes there were. remember cain even married his own sister and God gave him a sign on the forehead so he won't be hurt by other people living far from their home. Read Genesis 1-2.
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Yes they were but the Bible says that Joseph didn't have relations with her until after Jesus was born.  That's why His earthly brothers were His half-brothers.
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Genesis tells us that Adam and Eve had two sons: Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel, was exiled by God, and then in Genesis 4:17 we read that Cain had relations with his wife. Where did Cain get his wife? The answer is simple:  Cain married either his sister or a niece. \n     In Genesis 5:4 we see that Adam had other sons and daughters.\n\n"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created. When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died," (Gen. 5:1-5).\n\n      Since Adam lived several hundred years, having lots of children was not a problem. The Genesis account does not tell us about the order of the births nor does it tell us how old they were. By having many children it is certainly possible that there were many women around. This would mean that Cain married either a sister or a niece or some other relation. Of course at this point, the question of inbreeding is raised. But it is not a problem early on in the human race because the genetic line was so pure. Therefore, the prohibition against incest was not proclaimed until much much later (Lev. 18:6-18).\n\nI hope this helps answer your question.
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Interesting but contrary to Scripture. I understand the problem you're considering and offer this as a possible solution...\n\nAdam and Eve were perfect and it took several generations before the degenerating gene pool became severe enough to forbid incest.
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God started by creating Adam and Eve who were the first to begin procreating. They were having sons who were marrying wives after settling in other areas. Nowhere does it say Adam and Eve were the ONLY humans God created. He created wives for Adam and Eve's Sons.\nWhat you're suggesting makes no sense. If any human or animal or creature attempts to mate with the wrong species, even if successful at it, the progeny end up sterile.\nIt's pretty clear from Genesis Chapters 4 and 5 that Eve was not mating with her sons.\n***\nAs for the sister theory it doesn't work either because Genesis gives a sequential account of who Eve was giving birth to. There were no sisters yet for Cain.\n***\nI'm using a New American Standard version which is considered the to be the most scholarly accurate as far as I know and it's a bit different from what you wrote:\n5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.\n2 - He created THEM male and female, and he blessed them and named THEM Man in the day when they were created.\n\nThere is no account of incest of any kind. God created wives for Adam's sons separately.
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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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Bibleguy - your answer doesn't make any sence. You're talking about OTHER adams? \nAnd ya it is funny - so i guess some of adams sons got their sisters pregnant. I bet they had a good time, huh? LOL I wonder if there was any threesomes. So what does bible say about incest again?
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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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Good question! \n\nFirst of all, they didn't have any children until they were expelled from the Garden.\n\nIt would SEEM that the brothers and sisters would have to marry each other (ick), since the Bible says this is the only family on Earth.\n\nOf course, when Cain murdered Abel, the Bible also says that he went off to live with people in the land of Nod . . . so where did those people come from?!?!\n\nWhat?  The Bible internally inconsistent?!?!?  Shocking!!!