I answered the following question on another site. What are your thoughts about this question ? Maybe The Lord will reveal something about it if we seek His face.
If Adam and Eve were the first humans, who did their children have sex with, their brothers and sisters?
God uses the words create and made ( or let there be) in Genesis 1. He uses the word create when He creates something out of nothing that existed in the natural world. He uses the word made, when He makes something out of something that He already created.
For instance, God created all matter and energy in the beginning (the big bang). But then formed the sun and earth from that matter later.
God said let the earth produce the plants, and later let the earth produce the animals. So God made both plants and animals by letting the earth produce them.
Later God uses BOTH words, when He says God MADE man, and God CREATED man. It could be that God let the earth produce an animal that looked like a man, but was not a man, because it had no spirit like God. So God breathed the breath of LIFE into that first man ( Adam ) and he became a living man. Real life ( eternal life) can only be had by those with a spirit like God. That is why God says man is created in His image. Both God and man have a spirit.
Now Cain killed his brother Abel and God sent him away to the land of Nod. There is no record of Cain having any sisters at this time. Also lands are usually named after a person who lives there ( Nod) . It also says Cain married and built a city. So it seems to me that there were animals, that looked like men, that lived there ( homo sapiens ) but they were not men because they had no spirit. That may be why Cain was chosen as their leader, because having a spirit like God would make him far superior. So the offspring of Cain were not real living men, but only animals that looked like men.
Now that still leaves who did Seth marry ? That is not known, but many will claim that they know that he married his sister. Maybe, but it is going beyond what is written. We are told not to do that.
I see nothing wrong with simply saying we do not know who Seth married. Did Seth pick out a homo sapien woman and then God breathed the breath of life into her. Or did Seth marry a sister.
There is one passage that might indicate that Seth did not marry another homo sapien that was not his sister. Because Eve is called Eve because she was to be mother of all the living. Now that does not mean she was mother of bears. We see bears as living, but they only have temporary life, not real life which is eternal. But if Eve was literally mother of all real men ( those that had a spirit) then maybe Seth married his sister.
If Adam and Eve were the first humans, who did their children have sex with, their brothers and sisters?
God uses the words create and made ( or let there be) in Genesis 1. He uses the word create when He creates something out of nothing that existed in the natural world. He uses the word made, when He makes something out of something that He already created.
For instance, God created all matter and energy in the beginning (the big bang). But then formed the sun and earth from that matter later.
God said let the earth produce the plants, and later let the earth produce the animals. So God made both plants and animals by letting the earth produce them.
Later God uses BOTH words, when He says God MADE man, and God CREATED man. It could be that God let the earth produce an animal that looked like a man, but was not a man, because it had no spirit like God. So God breathed the breath of LIFE into that first man ( Adam ) and he became a living man. Real life ( eternal life) can only be had by those with a spirit like God. That is why God says man is created in His image. Both God and man have a spirit.
Now Cain killed his brother Abel and God sent him away to the land of Nod. There is no record of Cain having any sisters at this time. Also lands are usually named after a person who lives there ( Nod) . It also says Cain married and built a city. So it seems to me that there were animals, that looked like men, that lived there ( homo sapiens ) but they were not men because they had no spirit. That may be why Cain was chosen as their leader, because having a spirit like God would make him far superior. So the offspring of Cain were not real living men, but only animals that looked like men.
Now that still leaves who did Seth marry ? That is not known, but many will claim that they know that he married his sister. Maybe, but it is going beyond what is written. We are told not to do that.
I see nothing wrong with simply saying we do not know who Seth married. Did Seth pick out a homo sapien woman and then God breathed the breath of life into her. Or did Seth marry a sister.
There is one passage that might indicate that Seth did not marry another homo sapien that was not his sister. Because Eve is called Eve because she was to be mother of all the living. Now that does not mean she was mother of bears. We see bears as living, but they only have temporary life, not real life which is eternal. But if Eve was literally mother of all real men ( those that had a spirit) then maybe Seth married his sister.
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