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kopiteinkc
09 Jan 2006, 10:28 AM
Who did Adam and Eve's children marry?
Mr. Bee
09 Jan 2006, 10:30 AM
Leprechauns
Mr. Bee
09 Jan 2006, 11:03 AM
What is the official word on this. Monkeys or something?
Monkeys that evolved into eligible bachelors and bachelorettes, I suppose.
Revolt
09 Jan 2006, 11:44 AM
Is this an Appalachian sitcom?
MikeLastort2
09 Jan 2006, 11:58 AM
Wasn't it the Land of Nod?
MikeLastort2
09 Jan 2006, 01:04 PM
Cro Mags like themselves. From over the hill.
About years ago, my mother-in-law, her husband, my wife and I were all on vacation in France, not too far from Abri du Cro-Magnon. We went to go check out the "polycolor" cave paintings in the town of Les Eyzies de Tayac (http://www.leseyzies.com/). The paintings are nearly as famous those in Lasceaux. However unlike Lasceaux, where you can only see a copy, you can actually take a tour and see the originals in all their glory in Les Eyzies.
We had a French tour guide giving a tour in English. He was very Gallic, complete with beret, scarf, Gauloise cigarettes (smoked outside the cave), and a thick accent. He explained to us that the paintings were made sometime around 10,000 - 15,000 years ago by Cro-Magnon man, who was of the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The paintings were absolutely incredible, and are something that I will never forget. As we were exiting the cave I heard an elderly American man tell his wife "wow, Homo Sapiens Sapiens must have had a pretty large brain."
I had to bite my tongue to prevent myself from saying "bigger than yours."
:D
Dan Loney
09 Jan 2006, 01:10 PM
Heresy alert: one of the amusing interpretations I heard was that human beings were created on day five with the rest of the animals, and that Adam and Eve were created separately, as the first Jews.
Scientific no-prize alert: well, there wouldn't be too much of a shortage of people, since Adam and Eve lived for centuries. So they could have singlehandedly sired a small town - plus their own kids marrying each other. Plus one left over for Cain to found his city.
There wouldn't have been any genetic problems, because Adam and Eve wouldn't have had any genetic defects or mutations. Those would have developed later, during the millions ERRRRRR hundreds of years of genetic drift that occurred afterwards.
dj43
09 Jan 2006, 02:30 PM
Though the Bible says nothing to answer the thread starter's question, it is obvious that there were many children born to Adam & Eve besides Cain and Abel, and they would have married each other. In Genesis 4:12-15, the Bible does point out the fact there were other people around by the time Cain murdered Abel. In the account of Cain talking to the Lord after the murder, Cain points out that when others learn of his act, they would kill him. So the Lord "put a mark" on Cain and decreed that no one should kill Cain.
Hence, there must have been quite a few siblings and extended family around by this time otherwise Cain would have no reason to fear for his life.
HapoelFanNYC
09 Jan 2006, 02:46 PM
there are a few known theories made by famous jewish scholars over the years.
some say Cain ended up having children with his mother and that went on and there were more children being born, while others say that like in other cases throughout the bible, that some information just doesnt make it into the bible since it doesnt have any effect on the story being told, such as maybe adam and eve gave birth to more children, but they were never mentioned because they werent relevant while telling the story of Cain and Able.
Smiley321
09 Jan 2006, 03:17 PM
there are a few known theories made by famous jewish scholars over the years.
some say Cain ended up having children with his mother and that went on and there were more children being born, while others say that like in other cases throughout the bible, that some information just doesnt make it into the bible since it doesnt have any effect on the story being told, such as maybe adam and eve gave birth to more children, but they were never mentioned because they werent relevant while telling the story of Cain and Able.
I guess the Book of MILF didn't make the cut, huh?
Dan Loney
09 Jan 2006, 03:49 PM
Oh, I forgot Lilith, too. I forget whether she's accepted by any orthodox religion, but her progeny would be fair game for...er, well, no, it would be still incestuous, but only half as much.
monop_poly
09 Jan 2006, 04:36 PM
Maybe Adam and Eve are allegoricaly figures?
Don't you mean allegoricallogical or allegoicalicious?
monop_poly
09 Jan 2006, 04:46 PM
Look buddy, I'm not much on fancy book learnin', and I doubt the nomadic shepards of the middle east were either.
Thank goodness they at least knew enough about geometry to build an ark that would hold two of every animal. :D
Dan Loney
09 Jan 2006, 05:06 PM
Maybe Adam and Eve are allegoricaly figures?I see we got one of these "cafeteria Christians" here.
God said it, I believe it, that settles it
monop_poly
09 Jan 2006, 05:16 PM
I see we got one of these "cafeteria Christians" here.
God said it, I believe it, that settles it
????????
Dan Loney
09 Jan 2006, 05:29 PM
????????See, in a cafeteria, you can pick and choose what you want, instead of accepting what is given to you.
monop_poly
09 Jan 2006, 05:36 PM
See, in a cafeteria, you can pick and choose what you want, instead of accepting what is given to you.
Ahhhhhhhhhh. I'm rusty from a long holiday absence.
Dan Loney
09 Jan 2006, 06:39 PM
If that's your term for Christians that believe the whole Genesis Story and Adam/Eve Saga are some of the least important facets of Christianity, the so be it. Was trying to be funny, was the thing I was meaning to go for. I was trying to channel what a fundamentalist would say. Was the schtick, you see, that I, yeah.
Geez, maybe Karl K really is funnier than I am.