If Adam and Eve only had two male children...and Cain killed Abel, how did the human race survive? Incest?
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They did have sisters and it was the only way for the human race to grow and survive it's inconprehensible to us, but times were certainly different then!\n\nGod created Adam and Eve as the first of mankind and it was in His plan for this to happen.
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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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There was an interesting documentary on this a few days ago on Discovery Times on cable I watched the other day that explains it to my satisfaction at the time......When Adam and Eve were forged by God and cast out of the Garden of Eden and Cain and Able were born it is theorized there were other tribal humans living outside the Garden of Eden and when the groups intermixed the "Holy" families were born under one bloodline......Those folks were of somewhat African and Middle Eastern ancestry in the countries we know of as today.........And hence the variety of complexions in the human race today as we know it
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This question is bound to get arguments started, but...\n\nAfter Cain killed Abel, God banished him.  Cain complained that he would be an outcast, and would be killed by whoever found him, so God marked Cain in such a manner that anyone who saw him would recognize that he was under the protection of God.  Some people believe that the mark remains, and use it to accuse black people of being marked as less.  But it really means that God's protection is marked on them.   \n\nHere is the text from Genesis 4.  See what you think:  \n\n"10 The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." \n\n 13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." \n\n 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. \n\nSome people doubt this theory, and say that God created more couples than just Adam and Eve, and some of those must have been different races of man.  It doesn't really matter, because all of them except Noah's family would have been wiped out in the flood.  \n_____________________________\n\nThis is the account of Noah. \n      Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. \n\n7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. \n\n23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. \n\n18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. \n 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. \n\n 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, \n       "Cursed be Canaan! \n       The lowest of slaves \n       will he be to his brothers." \n\n 26 He also said, \n       "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! \n       May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [b] \n\n 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [c] ; \n       may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, \n       and may Canaan be his [d] slave." \n____________________________\n\nThe most important part of that text from Genesis 9-12 about Noah's family is this (the answer to your question), Genesis 9:19 "These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth." I included the rest to point out that, while many believe the marked brother was the cursed one, there is nothing scripturally to make one believe that.  The marked one was protected, not cursed!
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Yes.  you r right.  This is not plausible.  Adam and Eve must have produced girls too.  Either brothers and sisters or sons and mother or father and daughters must have generated more boys and girls.. and so on.\n\nMay be in the very initial stages, humans were like animals and son copulating with mother, or father f..ing daughters, or brothers sleeping with sisters were common.
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Yes Cain. Cain and Abel were fraternal twins. Abel was of Adam. Two separate bags of water two separate conceptions.\n\n1Jo 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. \n\nJoh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.\n\nGen 4:1  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. \nGen 4:2  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. \n\nThe word "again" in the Hebrew means (continued).\nEve continued in child birth and had twins.
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Funny how Christians can explain away the incest as "necessary" to populate the world. Another example that people can blindly accept the words of the bible.\n\nWhy can't god just create more humans so that they don't have to inbreed? Or does god PLAN for us to inbreed??? Utter bulls**t!
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Cain and Able were according the Genesis, the sons of Adam and Eve.  \nWith these two you can answer what is the oldest profession with Shepherd and farmer. Each of them offered an offering to God of their labor.  For reasons that are not listed in the Bible, Able, the shepherd had an acceptable offering While Cain's was rejected.  In anger Cain killed Abel. Cain slew Able and was banished.  \n\nThe Biblical family tree of Adam/Eve records a third son, Seth.
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If Adam and eve did not exist... there would not have been any human beings! The first of the species of human beings the revered Adam and Eve were the first to surface on Mother Earth as human beings. Their direct ancestors being the ape family!\n\nNow Adam and Eve came onto this Earth. They had both to act as a family. Both were son and daughter of God. That made them brother and sister. How come they could have fathered children?\n\nIn the initial stages of development of human life... nothing existed which we could have called as society or community. It was a raw savage world. As per the theory of Charles Darwin, "it was the time for survival of the fittest". It was the time to do and die.\n\nWords like ethics and morality did not exist for even words did not exist during those times. The Lipi (written form of communication) was developed at a much later stage in time.\n\nEven a brother and sister relationship did not exist at that time. There were only two human beings who had surfaced on Mother Earth. They had to copulate and produce children. They did not do it intentionally. They never knew anything about it.\n\nIt was that it happened. They did it and something was born. At that moment of time they would have been extremely surprised not knowing what to do about it. Eventually they would have realized it was one of them.\n\nThey reared that child and with passage of time another child was born. This time it was a female child. As this small family progressed further... this male and female child copulated at the appropriate time. And the whole family started to grow.\n\nNow there were two families. With passage of time many more families came into existence. Until this point of time there was nothing like morality and ethics that played any role. For the sake of their survival and progeny these families kept on multiplying.\n\nThis was the only way to keep intruders at bay. They had to protect themselves from the wild beings roaming Mother Earth.\n\nEver since the Revelations of God came into existence... the human being who had invoked these words of God realized that the system had to be ordered at some stage. And some system of morality and ethics came into being.\n\nAs of today... the copulation by the children of Adam and Eve was a sin but at that time it was not a sin for the relationship of brother and sister never existed in those times.\n\nThe development of relationships in human life came at a very later the stage. It was only possible when the community would have developed into a massive strength. Population somewhere in thousands would have prompted the wise and the elders of those times to separate out into distinct families.\n\nWe need to understand that whatever is truth today may not hold tomorrow. In a scientific developing world the values whether they are ethical, moral or otherwise keep changing.\n\nWe also need to understand that during the times of Mahabharata... the battle was fought using swords, horses and elephants. But now the warfare consists of atomic bombs, missiles and chemical warfare. More here- http://www.godrealized.com/dharma_definition.html
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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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YES, incest does exist. And it is taboo because it is family. I think more than anything is it is illegal becasue any children conceived will most likely be born with birth defects. This in itself is not good. But since you have brought this subject up and give this some thought. WE ARE all related. If the bible is as true as we are led to believe then ADAM & EVE were the first two people on earth. This being then they started the world and we are all from the same family. I mean WHERE did everyone else come from?
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Cain murders Abel, they were the sons of Adam and Eve.
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Never heard anything like that. Cain killed his brother Abel in the book of Genesis but there weren't 12 brothers and there is nothing about him being turned black. the decendants of Africa come later in the book from Ham the son of Noah. Ham checks out Noah while he's naked and Noah curses his descendents. the Bible doesn't say anything about being black and I've never heard of any organized crusades against Christians by Muslims. It is believed that many Africans were believers in Christ and that the Ark of the Covenant will resides in east Africa. (I believe the capitla of Ethiopia.)\n\nI'm not relaly sure you're goal with this question but read the book of Genesis more thoroughly for your own first hand Biblical world view.
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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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Well, Adam lived to be 930 yrs old and Eve lived almost a long.  It was only later that God reduced the amount of years a man could love.  During this time they had many many sons and daughters.  And these sons and daughters married and reproduced as well.  I know what you're thinking; incest.  When God gave Moses the law He stopped immediate family members from marrying.  So, 930 years one can make a lot of babies.
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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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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.