Did God only create Adam & Eve?How did the other people came to exist?

Question

Did Adam & Eve's children have children together?I'm sorry for being so ignorant, but I would just like to know?

Answer 1

Question for Christians: If incest is a sin now, but wasn't back then, then is something good only because God says it is and not because the action is inherently good?

Answer 2

Well, you see there's these two bees...

Answer 3

I'm thinking evolution through natural selection

Adam and Eve is a fable

Answer 4

i believe much of the bible to be symbolic.  i personally believe adam and eve to be the first self-aware humans.  

the bible never said there were no other humans outside of the garden of eden.  

Answer 5

They made more people the same way we do today: s*x.

Answer 6

Origins of the Fall of Adam and Eve.

The Old Testament is basically a compilation of selected oral traditions passed on from one culture and a few of the surrounding tribes. Basically these oral traditions were the stories told around the campfire to give the early hebrews a cultural identity. Pretty much all tribes had their own oral traditions, but what is written in the Old Testament survived because the tribe eventually wrote them down.

There are a few things to consider about this... the first is that all these stories have some truth to them in that they were important enough stories for the tribe to pass them down throughout the generations until eventually they were important enough to write down. The second thing to consider is that these stories were passed on for thousands of years before being written down. Surely the significance of the stories would have changed their context over this vast period of time. The third thing is that these stories were never meant to describe the entire world, only that particular culture. In other words, the stories were based on all that they knew, not all that was.

So what could the story of Adam and Eve have represented for the early Hebrews? The creation of the world? We know this is not the case, but what could have happened that these Hebrews would have found so significant that they would hold it in so high a regard as to call it creation? Can history give us any clues as to what could have been so significant to these people 8000-10,000 years ago?

The fact is, history can tell us about a very significant event that happened at around the same time and in about the same area. This event was the Agricultural Revolution.

Now, it should be said that humans had been around for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the Agricultural Revolution. During this period, human population growth was rather slight. These early tribes were mostly hunter-gatherers with some low-level farming. A comparative look at some of the isolated tribes of today shows that they have a high respect for nature, and concepts like ownership of land and ownership of food are pretty much non-existant. They lived as animals, and by that I mean that they killed and ate what they needed, and for protection, but very rarely more than that. This was pretty much a law of limited competition as we see amung other animals in the wild today. Humans did not claim dominion over the planet or its food. One day the human hunters caught the deer, another day the deer got away, and yet another day a tiger caught the deer. The humans did not resent the tiger for this because they were living as the tiger did.. in a way, whether the deer lived or who caught it, was up to the gods. By "the gods" I of course mean the Animist "gods" found in the majority of tribal cultures.

Fast forward to the Agricultural Revolution when humans began to think differently about their food. Rather than rely on "the gods" for their food, humans began a concentrated wholesale campaign to grow and have complete control over their own food. Animals were domesticated and raised on farms for the purpose of eventually eating them. This time the deer or other livestock belonged to the humans first and foremost. The deer's fate was sealed from birth, it belonged to the humans. The livestock were also protected from other prey, and when necessary, the humans went to war with other would-be competitors for the livestock. To put it another way, humans suddenly took control and decided who lived and who died. Until the Agricultural Revolution, this was the "Knowledge of the Gods."

Do you see where this is going?

The story of the fall of Adam and Eve is the story of the Agricultural Revolution. The story was probably originally told from the point of view of a neighbouring tribe who watched the revolution begin. They believed it was an abomination what these early Hebrews (possibly) were doing. The gods had provided for all up to then and by claiming the knowledge of the gods (eating the apple) they had begun living outside of the laws of nature which had worked so well from the beginning of time. These observers assumed chaos would ensue and "the gods" would no longer provide for them or protect them, thus they were "cast out of the garden." Fortunately for the early Hebrews, this new form of making a living seemed to work quite well. It is likely that the observing tribe was assimilated or at least took up this new way of making a living as it very quickly spread all over the world.

So the story of Adam and Eve wasn't about the creation of humans, but the creation of civilization as we know it! Surely an event worthy of being passed down in a story for generations.

Another thing that is interesting about this, is the spiritual basis of these people was taken away from them. What right did they have to claim dominion over the world and all the animals and plants in it? Who could possibly have given humans t

Answer 7

Adam was made to bring the light of God to the existing population of the world, which were the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals. In Gen. 6 we see that Adam's new little race of people mixed with the evolved species and created modern humans. I base this teaching on the fact that Paul referred to Christ as the 'second Adam' and indicated that He came to do the job that Adam botched.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve got it on with each other, with the usual results:  all kinds of bickering, quarreling relatives, such as Ismail who was the start of islam, Moses who led the bickering Jews to Israel, Paul who pitched the message to the Middle East, and so on.  

Answer 9

Yes, there had to be incest in the first generation of children. They had no choice. Plus, who are you going to report them to?

Adam and Eve kept cranking out kids long after Cain left the nest. Eventually, he meets a woman. It's his sister, but he doesn't care because he didn't grow up with her.  

Answer 10

Well, that's a tough question, especially seeing as when Cain murdered Abel Cain was expelled from the 'tribe' and sent to the people of Nod and he took a wife there. So, the way I've always seen it was God just created Adam and Eve, not everyone else, especially seeing as God never claimed to have created the people of Nod.

Answer 11

Religion got away with this story because for thousands of years, if you questioned religion. you could be put to death for heresy. The only possible way for Adam & Eve to populate the earth was through incest as they were the very first people on earth. The uneducated people who wrote this story and called it God's word, didn't have knowledge in genetics like we have today.

Answer 12

Incest!!!   The original sin!!

Answer 13

The Bible only named Adam and Eve as the first humans. Cain married a woman of Nod that was not his sister. People who claim Incest should study Genesis Chapter 4 to see that Cain was cast away from his family, and that there were other people created who were not named.

Answer 14

If you believe this then our genes must have fucked our appearances up!

Answer 15

dude, no God exists

the semites that invented the Abrahamic God thought that they, together with the middle eastern and the surronding ethnicites in middle east were the only people on the planet

the purpose of the belief in a God is to provide quick explanation on natural events and occurences (that was before, and/or maybe even in the present time), to control the human's nature to think of himself as superior and to be an arrogant and overconfident lunatic, to maintain ethics and morality for optimum human interaction (unless people have different religions), and to provide people a false hope so that they would have a reason not to quit and go on with their lives

Answer 16

God created Adam and Eve, along with the universe and all the plants and animals. To answer your question, yes, Adam and Eve's children had children together. It wasn't until much later that God forbid brothers and sisters (and other family) from marrying.

When God created Adam and Eve, they were perfect. They had perfect genetics as well. Once they sinned, they lost their perfection. As they had children, their children had children, and so on, small mutations were introduced into their genetics. This got worse and worse with time. Today, when brothers and sisters have children together, the mutations are usually so bad that the children and very unhealthy. This is because of thousands of years worth of mutations starting with the genes of Adam and Eve.

Answer 17

god told adam and eve to be fruitful and reproduce...this would definately include inbreeding! but think of it like this...god never intended 4 adam and eve 2 reproduce UNTIL they sinned and he kicked them out of the garden of eden, b/c when they sinned thats when they realized they were naked, and they became like god with this new found knowledge...i believe the ongoing inbreeding is y there are so many genetic problems today

Answer 18

Adam and Eve had children.  

The name Eve means "mother of everyone living". Adam chose that name for her. Recorded in Genesis 2:20.

Answer 19

clones.

Answer 20

Lots of inbreeding?

Answer 21

take a guess!

ever heard of s*x?

Answer 22

It is the Christian belief that two people populated the whole world.  Just one of the many asinine stories in the bible.

Answer 23

How would I know that?  I wasn't there!