Wifes of Cane and Able

[zyndara]

If Adam and Eve were the only people and they had two sons, Cane and Able, where did their wifes come from?

[Quizmonster]

Click here for a Bible study website with an answer. (It's Cain and Abel, by the way.)

[makemesmile]

A likely tale!

[Booldawg]

regardless of whether you have Christian beleifs or not, I dont think you can take the Bible word for word.

[excudus]

i have answered sillier quesions than that READ THE BIBLE STUPID and if you do not understand it here is a brief story adam and eve had chidren after cane and habil that and their were inter marriges that is with their sisters those were born after them.

[wizard69]

according to the bible adam and eve had other sons and daughters (Genesis 5 v4).So according to the good book we are all products of incest...wonderful

[cascarelli]

there's an awful lot of people around who, imho obviously, would prove the case that we're all descended from incestuous relationships!!

[wildwood]

However many children they had, and there were supposed to be many over the hundreds of years that they lived, even the christian faith now admits that incest was prevalent. This is explained away by the first children being perfect, and so incest was ok. Cain was one of the fist children!?

Even weirder.... According to the bible, by the time the floods became, Men had aquired genetic defects and incest was no longer acceptable and life was limited to about 70 years.

Noah would have been past *it* by the time the floods subsided, so we are all progeny from the three couples who's children were all first cousins. This, just after God had ordered incest off the menu. Hello?????

[claireyfairy]

Just wanted to point out first cousins isn't incest and even today cousins can still legally marry.

[Octavius]

Unfortunately I cannot open QMs link, but as said above, much of the bible is not meant to be taken in the literal sense. Adam & Eve represent humankind in general, not just two individuals.

[dzug]

Try telling that to American fundamentalists, Octavius.

[Octavius]

Well it's up there ^ in black and white and they are free to read it at their pleasure. Even so, I respect that they are free to believe whatever they choose.