Expert: Brenda Martin - 10/4/2006

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Hi Brenda

So what your saying or what the Bible is saying is:
IT WAS O.K. TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU SISTER OR COUSIN AT THAT TIME! But than GOD said, ENOUGH.

Look Brenda I don't mean to break your chops. I am a Born Again Christian and I'm stuggles with some issue, but I'm accepting them no matter how crazy they may seem.

Lets keep it nice an SIMPLY. GOD make a man called Adam and took a rib from Adam as he slept and formed Eve. They both sined in the garden and were banished from the garden. Adam went into Eve and she bore three children; Caine,Able & Seth. Then there is mention of daughters. So brothers an sisters went into each other and that started the population explosion. YES/NO ?

Seems right to me. But wrong in my heart. Witht he incest I mean. Oh well, I still accept the will of GOD.

Thank you
Brenda.
I wait for you reply..
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Hi Brenda

A friend of mine asked me this question and I had no answer for him. Beign an early born again christian and I'm still learning and studing.

Please try to ans. this for both of us.
My firend simply said,
" So GOD made Adam % Eve. But who else did HE make. Where did all the other people come from?

"... Adam & Eve made Cane & Able right? So if Eve was the only women. Where did all the other people come from?

Did Cane,Able & Adam have sexual relations with Eve?

Thank you Brenda


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Gen. 5:3, 4: “Adam lived on for a hundred and thirty years. Then he became father to a son in his likeness, in his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.”

(One of Adam’s sons was Cain, and one of Adam’s daughters must have become Cain’s wife. At that time in human history when humans still had outstanding physical health and vitality, as indicated by the length of their lives, the likelihood of passing on defects as a result of marrying a close relative was not great. After some 2,500 years of human history, however, when mankind’s physical condition had greatly deteriorated,God gave to Israel laws forbidding incest.)

all the best
Brenda

Hi Brenda

You said, " . . .  Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters."
QUESTIONS: SON and DAUGHTER WITH WHOM DID HE HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ? ? ?
There was only EVE in the beginning and NO OTHER WOMEN.
Adam its said had daugthers. So it looks like INCEST to me. What's with that!

Please try if you can to clear this up between me and my friend.

THANK YOU
GOD BLESS

R. MONACO

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You said, " . . .  Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile HE became father to sons and daughters."
QUESTIONS: SON and DAUGHTER WITH WHOM DID HE HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH ?

The "he" in the scipture is speaking about Adam, he had sons and Daughters with his wife Eve. Adam and Eve did not just have "Cain and Abel"

"There was only EVE in the beginning and NO OTHER WOMEN.
Adam its said had daugthers. So it looks like INCEST to me. What's with that!"

Adam & Eve had sons and daughters ok :¬) when Cain was banished, he took along a "wife", that wife had to be his sister or cousin. We are all from the one human pair.

I answered why this was allowed at that time, because they were near perfection, as time went by and mankind became further and further away from perfection, God gave laws forbidding incest.

Brenda


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"GOD MADE A MAN CALLED ADAM AND TOOK A RIB FROM ADAM AS HE SLEPT AND FORMED EVE."

Yes correct, God created a perfect man, and made a perfect woman from the man’s rib.

"THEY BOTH SINNED IN THE GARDEN AND WERE BANISHED FROM THE GARDEN."

Yes, they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, and paid the penalty for disobedience.

"ADAM AND EVE BORE THREE CHILDREN"

No, the bible doesn’t say how many children they had, it just says they had; “sons and daughters”

"BROTHERS AND SISTERS STARTED THE POPULATION

Yes; God only created one human pair, so how else could the population come about."

INCEST?

The Bible record indicates that Cain married one of his sisters (Gen. 4:17; 5:4)

God created Adam and Eve perfect and purposed that all humankind descend from them. Obviously some marrying of close relatives, especially within the first few generations, would occur.

2,500 years after Adam became a sinner, God prohibited incestuous marriage. This served to safeguard the offspring and it elevated the sexual morality of Jehovah’s servants above that of people around them who were then engaging in all manner of depraved practices.—See Leviticus 18:2-18.

All the best
Brenda