how is adam and eves children have children themselves when they were both male?
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does it ever say they only had 2 children ? im guessing they had 50 children
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Often, apparent inconsistencies can be resolved if we just look at the context. Consider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. 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\nWhere did Cain get his wife? Is there a logical Bible answer?\n\nYes, there is. It is pointed to in the very instructions given to Adam and Eve shortly after their creation, namely: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.”—Gen. 1:28.\n\nObedience to this command would require that Adam and Eve have children. Then these children, in turn, would marry and bear children. This process of reproduction by succeeding generations would need to continue in order to fill the earth in harmony with God’s purpose.\n\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.
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A book exists which is called the bible. Do I believe?\nI have serious doubts. First of all, isn't it not scientifically proven that having children with a sibling will create retardation?\nWith this being a fact, how do Adam and Eve populate the earth with only 3 sons?
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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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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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I believe that Cain married from the lineage of Adam and Eve from those children Adam begat prior to Cain being cast out (Gen.4:16, Gen.5:3 below).\n\nAdam “begat sons and daughters” (Gen.5:4 below).  Genesis 5:4’s end statement says that that is what Adam did; he begat sons and daughters.\n\nI believe Adam begat sons and daughters from the births of Cain and Abel throughout the one hundred thirty years prior to the birth of Seth (Gen.4:25 below).\n\n\nGen.4:16And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.\n\nGen.4:25 And Adam knew his wife again (Gen.5:3 below); and she bare a son, and called his name Seth (Gen.5:3 below): For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.\n\nGen.5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth (Gen.4:25 above):\n\nGen.5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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If you believe the bible word for word (and if you read only some versions... reason why the bible isn't 100% accurate.) it says that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters besdies Cain and Abel. So, it's not the first gay marriage-- we're all children of incest.
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The Bible says Adam was the first man ... not the ONLY man.  We just hear so much about Adam because he was the first guy on the block.  It wouldn't make any sense to make billions of type of animals and only 2 humans.  (3 if you count Lilith ... Judaism says Adam had a wife before Eve, but they fought about who got to be on top during sex ... do God made Eve, a more docile wife for Adam)\n\nThere were other humans that God made, we just don't hear about them.  Cain married one of these other people.
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Eve was created from the rib of Adam. Same genetic material. So, in terms of genetics Adam and Eve were brother and sister. The tale I've heard repeated most often for the different races and blood types was the story of the Tower of Babylon and how when God punished man for trying to build the Tower to heaven God banished mankind to the 4 corners of the world and when he did this he cursed them not to speak the same language. Part of this tale was that God altered their appearance so they'd appear as strangers to each other. When he did this we ended up with the different races and that lead to the differing blood types as well.
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You need to remember that Adam and Eve lived for years, Adam was 930 years old when he died and they had many children, who must have married among themselves, and quickly develoed into a large population. After a hundred years or so, there would have been considerably sized cities growing up. The Bible does not say that everything that happened to Cain happened to him when he was young. After 400 years he could have been living in a city of several thousand people.
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God created Adam and Eve so he was their father (and ours) so it must have been: Adam God and Eve God.
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The answer by Temp19 was going well but stumbled.  Please allow me to add to it.  Cain married a sister most likely, but definitely a member of his own family. Once Adam and Eve sinned, they "began to die."  The people who were supposed to live forever now were subject to aging, disease etc.  After many generations this sinfulness deteriorated the bodies to the point that God commanded Moses to instruct family members NOT to marry.  The two creations are not inconsistent with one another.  There is a story of creation of the world (macro version if you will) and the focus of the creation of Adam and Eve (micro version if you will allow).  Hope this helps.
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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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We were not created by chance.  God was lonely and need companionship so he created Adam.  The rest of us descend from Adam and Eve.
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The man "Adam" was created in the day God created the heavens and the earth which was in the beginning. Mankind was created on the sixth day. Adam or as the bible says in the Hebrew THE MAN never had children until he was expelled from the garden of Eden. So mankind was not procreated by THE ADAM and EVE until they had fallen which was after the seventh day because God said the seventh day was very good. The Adam had access to the tree of life so the time between mankind being created and the fall of the Adam is not recorded in the bible. The Adams children were Cain, Able, and Seth. Cain killed Able and there is no record of Able having children. Cain and Seth went into the world of mankind and had children by mankind. When Cain was expelled from God's presence he went and took a wife of the land of Nod. To make a long story short the world became tainted because they mated with the daughters of men and eventually God cleansed the world with a flood. Noah had a pedigree and you can read the rest.\nThe key is God said to Adam in the day that you eat of the tree dying you shall die. If The Adam had not eaten of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil "The Adam" would never have died. Peter said a day in the Lord was 1,000 years, The Adam lived 930 years after he ate of the tree making him die just shy of 1,000 years fulfilling the prophecy.
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Through Cain.  See Gen 4:17.  Cain took a wife and married.\n\nAlso, in Gen 4:25 it also tells of Eve and Adams third child named Seth.  Seth went on to reproduce as well.
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We would not have ever come into existence. If Eve and later Adam had not partaken of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would have never become mortal, they would have lived forever (alone) in the Garden of Eden, and mankind would have never come about.  The entire plan of our Heavenly Father to allow his children to come to earth and gain mortal bodies would have been frustrated.  Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy.