Did Adam and Eve only have sons
|
Show  Did Adam and Eve’s Children Marry Each Other?Question of the week: My atheist colleagues frequently bring up the “incest” during the time of Adam and Eve (I believe they mean in the generation of Cain, Abel, and Seth). What would your thoughts on this be? My answer: If all humanity is descended from one man and one woman, as the Bible claims, then one of Adam and Eve’s sons had to have married one of Adam and Eve’s daughters. Evidently, God tolerated brother-sister marriages during the Genesis era. This tolerance is affirmed in the account of Abraham. Abraham was married to his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). This tolerance did not last, however. In the Levitical law, intercourse between a brother and a sister was strictly prohibited. Indeed, it is prohibited in virtually every nation and culture today. There is a genetic reason for the initial tolerance and the later intolerance. Animal breeding experiments show that one can have a brother mate with a sister for about twenty consecutive generations before there is a significant risk of propagating a serious genetic defect. On the human level, this became a problem for the Egyptian pharaohs. After many generations of the pharaohs marrying their sisters, the pharaohs became afflicted with hemophilia. In Deuteronomy 7:15 and Deuteronomy 28:58–60, Moses tells the Israelites that if they obey the laws God has given to them they will avoid many of the diseases and afflictions of the Egyptians. Evidently, what God had in mind included genetic disorders. To avoid such genetic disorders, in certain parts of the world and even in the United States it would be wise to ban not only brother-sister marriages but also marriages between first cousins. The Bible doesn’t say where Adam and Eve’s first two sons — Cain and Abel — got their wives, although it does tell us that Cain and his wife had at least one child (Enoch). The usual assumption is that Cain and Abel married their sisters. (Later this was forbidden by the Old Testament, but was necessary at the beginning of the human race.) Don’t be sidetracked by questions like this, however — because the story of Cain and Abel is an important one, and has many lessons to teach us. (You can read it in the fourth chapter of Genesis.) Cain, the Bible tells us, became angry at his brother because God had accepted Abel’s sacrifice but rejected Cain’s sacrifice, because Cain was selfish and his heart wasn’t right before God. Over time Cain’s anger grew, and eventually he killed his brother — thus committing the first murder. God asked him where his brother was, and his reply has echoed across the centuries: “I don’t know…. Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9). Heartless and totally wrapped up in himself, Cain became the ancestor of all those through the ages who have lived by violence instead of brotherly love. The story of Cain and Abel, however, points to an even greater truth — and that is the reality of human sin. Like a deadly cancer, sin invaded the human race with Adam and Eve, and brought evil and conflict in its wake. But Christ came to reverse all that — and it begins in our lives right now as we yield ourselves to Him. Has this happened in your life? How many offspring did Adam and Eve have?The book of Genesis mentions three of Adam and Eve's children: Cain, Abel and Seth. But geneticists, by tracing the DNA patterns found in people throughout the world, have now identified lineages descended from 10 sons of a genetic Adam and 18 daughters of Eve.
How did Cain got a wife?AwanCain / Wifenull
Who had 3 sons in the Bible?Sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth
The Genesis flood narrative tells how Noah and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with their wives, were saved from the Deluge to repopulate the Earth.
Did Adam and Eve have a third son?Seth, in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.
|
