How did Adam and Eve's children have children?

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Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

Incest...it would've been the only option.

Assuming you believe that story actually happened.

Thrice Gotcha Profile
Thrice Gotcha answered

So the story goes every time Eve conceived she had twins and once they grew older she would not allow the same twins to marry each other but to the children of the other barring.

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Cookie Hill
Cookie Hill commented
I Never read that Eve produced twins, The Bible does state that Adam "became father to sons and daughters." Genesis 4:17 So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. (Genesis 5:4) Later, God's Law to the Isralites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister. Leviticus 18::9
Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Somebody once pointed out that "incest" was a matter of taking the idea of brotherly love one step too far. In this case, since Eve was the only woman on the planet, I'd say the three men in her life would have kept her as busy as a one-armed paper hanger.

Allo Vera Profile
Allo Vera answered

From what I've read Cains line isn't in the genealogy so some believe his father was "a little different."

Also in some texts as Thrice says, they each had a twin sister. In those Cain killed Abel because he wanted to marry his own twin not Abel's.

In the bible it talks of a "holy seed" which suggests a non holy seed ie there were more than one lineage.

There are also two Genesis, the first is where God made man and woman at the same time.

Finally you have "The sons of God" marrying the "daughters of men" hence another lineage, for this reason God sent a flood.

Cookie Hill Profile
Cookie Hill answered

The Bible states that Adam " became father to sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:4)  So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps a nieces as a wife. (Genesis 4:17) Later, God's Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister. Leviticus 18:9

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

I suspect the point of Genesis is that all "humans" are directly connected to the first human being and share a common humanity.

I also suspect that no one at the time would have appreciated an explanation based on "a diploid cell resulting from the fusion of two haploid gametes; a fertilized ovum."

Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

If the Bible is taken Literally, it would be the act of Sisters and Brothers having sex to procreate . . . At which point several birth defects would result and continue to degrade the human conditions until God could drown the majority of mentally impaired off springs to start over again with ONE family just off the boat . . .

However, if taken allegorically . . . It is still a heinous myth that many base their lives off of . . .

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Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
I would like to believe that reason would lead you to this conclusion, however; given our past, you could very well be alluring to questioning my mental astuteness . . .

Not entirely sure you are in the position to "judge" either the Former or the Latter, but then again, I lack the ability to care in this particular regard . . .
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Again you prove my point---being asture involves being able to accurately assess situations or people.

I'll add "the ability to care" to the list of mental abilities that you have demonstrated or enumerated that you lack.
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Then one must add " . . In THIS REGARD" . . . as it pertains to your particular interaction.

Amazing how you pull from the text what you will to appease that you which you "Able" to understand . . . is is quite "telling" of your mental astuteness . . .

Is THIS, how you also approach the "Word" of God . . . Speaks volumes.
AnnNettie Paradise Profile

It definitely was not incest! Circumstances were different in earlier times. Adam and Eve were created perfect, and the instruction for them ‘to multiply and fill the earth’ would necessarily require that their offspring marry one another and reproduce. (Gen. 1:28) But as perfect humans, their children would have been perfect as were their parents. Even though Adam and Eve sinned and became imperfect, Cain and his brothers and sisters were still so near to physical perfection that the children they produced did not suffer the same adverse effects as do children born of such unions today. Even some 2,000 years afterward, God’s faithful servant Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, and God did not disapprove. (Gen. 20:12) It was yet another 450 years or so before God saw fit to provide his nation of Israel a body of laws that forbade incest on penalty of death. (Lev. 18:8-17) By that time imperfection had apparently developed to such an extent that no longer was it safe for close relatives to marry.

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Call me Z
Call me Z commented
Your rationalization has not removed the fact that the practice of brothers and sisters, blood relations, procreating is still incest. Call it what you like, goodness knows you theists always will, but the Garden of Eden is a fairy tale written to impress ignorant peasants. That it still impresses modern adults is a sad statement.
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
It just never fails to astound how believers will subvert even the most commonly understood terms to their own ends.
Ty Hibb Profile
Ty Hibb answered

Very good comment. It probably is not understood by some because of what the bible says at 1Cor 2:14-16

"14 But a physical man does not accept the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know them, because they are examined spiritually. 15 However, the spiritual man examines all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. 16 For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, so that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ."

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