Religious question Adam and Eve

[Hitman26]

Hey guys I know there are some Christians around here. I've asked a few friends this question (1 Jew about 4 Christians) and I can't get an answer. Anyway I ask them about Adam and Eve's children. If there was only Adam and Eve at first then they had children, was all further offspring incest or did God create other humans for mating purposes to not have incest? I know incest is against the Jewish and Christian laws so I'm confused on how the population grew without incest right from the begining. Also same question regarding the great flood which wiped out the worlds population except for Noah and his family?????


F. Zit: I would especially love your take on this because you seem to be a very knowledgable person.

 

[Creeg]

yes, the brothers and sisters had sex with each other. God allowed it for a while. What other choice was there?

 

[barman]

Sure. God allowed it, otherwise they would never have done it.


Sure

:drink:

 

[Hitman26]

Thanks Creeg. I thought that was what it had to be but none of my friends would admit it. I know very little about religion. I don't own a bible. At what point did God say it was against the Jewish and Chirstian laws for incest to be a no-no?

 

[barman]

It was better to have created new people from incesteous sex than it was to yank another rib from Adam to make a fresh female.

At that rate, the Earth's population would never have reached 20

 

[Tank]

Cain , Abel, and Seth are the only 3 i can think of but they had many.

 

[Rambo]

This is one of many reasons why religion is total bullshit. The stories in the bible are just like the grimm brothers fairytales. They are simply fiction.

 

[Kiln]

This is one of many reasons why religion is total bullshit. The stories in the bible are just like the grimm brothers fairytales. They are simply fiction.

Not just fiction but fiction plagued with many of what in a movie we'd call a "continuity error."

My favorite story though is the one about the lady who got pregnant without ever coming into contact with sperm....and the zany people who believed her! Seriously, how gullible were they back then?

 

[COVERIT!]

Yet, the universe, the world, the beauty, the intricate lives all around us, was all created by accident. A bunch of gases and crap formed to make a big boom, and we evolved into what we are today.
Talk about gullible.

 

[sumday]

Yet, the universe, the world, the beauty, the intricate lives all around us, was all created by accident. A bunch of gases and crap formed to make a big boom, and we evolved into what we are today.
Talk about gullible.

Aliens. The earth is to aliens what an ant farm is to humans.

 

[3peet]

yes, the brothers and sisters had sex with each other. God allowed it for a while. What other choice was there?

Eve was Adam's sister?:nohead:

 

[barman]

No. Eve was one of Adam's ribs

After he was created from "dust".

 

[punter]

yes, the brothers and sisters had sex with each other. God allowed it for a while. What other choice was there?

Or fathers with daughters. Like when the loving God turned Lot's wife to a pillar of salt and then incest was the only alternative or so they thought until one of the daughters comes walking back over the hill with some fine lad she ran into in a singles bar in the local village.

 

[quantumleap]

No. Eve was one of Adam's ribs

After he was created from "dust".

Tell us that story again where all of the living beings that were in the whole world lived withing walking distance of Noah.

:nohead:

%^_

 

[COVERIT!]

While everyone slams creation, please explain how everything was created by accident? Out of what?

Right.

 

[quantumleap]

Aliens. The earth is to aliens what an ant farm is to humans.

We are a science experiment made out of genetic material.

 

[barman]

While everyone slams creation, please explain how everything was created.....

Answer - No one knows for sure


That may not be sufficient to tell your little one when he asks you, "How did we get here?", but it's certainly preferable to fairy tales, eh?

 

[barman]

And to be fair, no one is slamming "creation". Rather, we are having fun with the silliness presented in the Book of Genesis

 

[COVERIT!]

Answer - No one knows for sure


That may not be sufficient to tell your little one when he asks you, "How did we get here?", but it's certainly preferable to fairy tales, eh?

Well, IMO, it's more logical than, "son, you know the big firecracker sound you heard on the 4th? Well, there was a giant one of those, and all the gases and matter that was around formed to make the earth and life!"

Daddy, where did those gases come from?
"Uh....."
Daddy, if we evolved, why don't we see other animals evolving today?
"Uh...."

 

[COVERIT!]

And to be fair, no one is slamming "creation". Rather, we are having fun with the silliness presented in the Book of Genesis

Have at it, I guess. While I guess none of us REALLY know, I'll take my beliefs and err on the side of caution, if you catch my drift...