Question!
Forum rules
1) This is a Christian site, respect our beliefs and we will respect yours.
2) This is a family friendly site, no swearing or posting offensive links, pictures, or signatures.
3) Please be respectful of others.
4) Trolls are not welcome and will be dealt with accordingly.
5) No racial comments, jokes or images
6) If you see a dead thread over 6 months old, let it rest in peace
7) No Duplicate posts
1) This is a Christian site, respect our beliefs and we will respect yours.
2) This is a family friendly site, no swearing or posting offensive links, pictures, or signatures.
3) Please be respectful of others.
4) Trolls are not welcome and will be dealt with accordingly.
5) No racial comments, jokes or images
6) If you see a dead thread over 6 months old, let it rest in peace
7) No Duplicate posts
-
- Noob
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:01 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
My question: Since Adam and Eve gave birth to Caine and Abel how would they get married and have children?
- Orodrist
- CCGR addict
- Posts: 7831
- Joined: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:38 pm
- Location: Surrounded by blood and bathed in fire on a frozen lake
- Contact:
I'd take a second to ask yourself if you really want the only logical solution to that question.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do - Robert A Heinlein
Courage ~ Discipline ~ Fidelity ~ Honor ~ Hospitality ~ Industriousness ~ Perseverance ~ Self Reliance ~
Courage ~ Discipline ~ Fidelity ~ Honor ~ Hospitality ~ Industriousness ~ Perseverance ~ Self Reliance ~
-
- Noob
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:01 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
........ Wow thanks for pointing that out for me.....
- mebmatt
- Master Gamer
- Posts: 602
- Joined: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:36 am
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Location: Somewhere.
- Contact:
Adam and Eve lived to be serveral hundred years old and had way more children than just Caine and Abel. And at that time sisters had to marry brothers.
I tried being normal once. Worst five minutes of my life.
- JOJ650s
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:08 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
- ccgr
- Site Admin
- Posts: 34662
- Joined: Wed May 25, 2005 12:00 am
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Location: IL
- Contact:
what mebmatt said
-
- Noob
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:01 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
Oh thanks guys for answering my question!
- ArchAngel
- CCGR addict
- Posts: 3539
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 12:00 am
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Contact:
I don't want to start an overextended debate, but according to literalistic readings of the Bible, Seth was born when Adam was 130, which means Cain was exiled shortly before. Was this enough time for Adam and Eve to create multiple villages in the land of Nod (Genesis 4:16). Maybe, if the women were consistently pregnant and kicking out twins and triplets.
The answer to this question isn't so straightforward, but the commonly accepted answer is that there was incest and a lot of it. But you know, it was "okay" since God didn't make a law about it yet. Of course, God didn't make a law about murder yet, either...
The answer to this question isn't so straightforward, but the commonly accepted answer is that there was incest and a lot of it. But you know, it was "okay" since God didn't make a law about it yet. Of course, God didn't make a law about murder yet, either...
-
- Gamer
- Posts: 154
- Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:53 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Location: Galveston, TX
- Contact:
ArchAngel brings up good points.
I hold a non-literal interpretation of a large portion of Genesis. I don't believe that Adam and Eve existed as real people. They were part of a creation myth and were archetypal expressions of giving into temptation that each of us experience.
I hold a non-literal interpretation of a large portion of Genesis. I don't believe that Adam and Eve existed as real people. They were part of a creation myth and were archetypal expressions of giving into temptation that each of us experience.
- JOJ650s
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:08 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
- ArchAngel
- CCGR addict
- Posts: 3539
- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 12:00 am
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Contact:
Oh, it's just about undoubtedly the case that they did.
What I did leave out was that the explanation that incest wasn't a problem back then was that their genetics were created perfect, with no flaws, that inbreeding would result in the genetic mutations as we see today.
(If you didn't know, and brandon can probably correct me if I'm wrong, is that genetic anomolies show up for children of inbreeding is because that their genetic code is so similar, that any recessive genetic anomoly is more likely to come out.)
What I did leave out was that the explanation that incest wasn't a problem back then was that their genetics were created perfect, with no flaws, that inbreeding would result in the genetic mutations as we see today.
(If you didn't know, and brandon can probably correct me if I'm wrong, is that genetic anomolies show up for children of inbreeding is because that their genetic code is so similar, that any recessive genetic anomoly is more likely to come out.)
- Drewsov
- CCGR addict
- Posts: 4455
- Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:00 am
- Location: In a place not unlike his own.
- Contact:
Don't say those things 'round here... Some of the locals have spears.brandon1984 wrote:ArchAngel brings up good points.
I hold a non-literal interpretation of a large portion of Genesis. I don't believe that Adam and Eve existed as real people. They were part of a creation myth and were archetypal expressions of giving into temptation that each of us experience.
But seriously, everyone gets mad at me because I have some views of the Bible that are less than literal. Like the one you just expressed.
http://exculpate.wordpress.com - Updated 2.10.12
You were telling him about Buddha, you were telling him about Mohammed in the same breath. You never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal’s death...
You were telling him about Buddha, you were telling him about Mohammed in the same breath. You never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal’s death...
- Nate DaZombie
- VIP Member
- Posts: 753
- Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:15 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
I wouldn't say that; the conversations I've seen have been civil. Now if he tried to force it down our throats...but I doubt that will happenDrewsov wrote:Don't say those things 'round here... Some of the locals have spears.brandon1984 wrote:ArchAngel brings up good points.
I hold a non-literal interpretation of a large portion of Genesis. I don't believe that Adam and Eve existed as real people. They were part of a creation myth and were archetypal expressions of giving into temptation that each of us experience.
But seriously, everyone gets mad at me because I have some views of the Bible that are less than literal. Like the one you just expressed.
- Skogkatt
- Noob
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:06 pm
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Contact:
God hadn't "made" a law for murder but murder was still a sin even before the tenth comandments.
The wage of sin is death thus how could insect be okay because there was no law?
The children still wouldnt come out right. God does not change or flicker. He is was and will be the same forever.
So insect could not possibly have been okay and then not okay. There has to be some other explanation.
God could have made other ppl too after Adam and Eve. Just a thought.
The wage of sin is death thus how could insect be okay because there was no law?
The children still wouldnt come out right. God does not change or flicker. He is was and will be the same forever.
So insect could not possibly have been okay and then not okay. There has to be some other explanation.
God could have made other ppl too after Adam and Eve. Just a thought.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
Martin Luther
Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
Martin Luther
- ChickenSoup
- CCGR addict
- Posts: 3289
- Joined: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:00 am
- Are you human?: Yes!
- Location: the doomed ship HMS Sinkytowne
- Contact:
you hold a non literal interpretation of everythingbrandon1984 wrote:ArchAngel brings up good points.
I hold a non-literal interpretation of a large portion of Genesis. I don't believe that Adam and Eve existed as real people. They were part of a creation myth and were archetypal expressions of giving into temptation that each of us experience.
My name is ChickenSoup and I have several flavors in which you may be interested
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest