Children from Cain?

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Hello Father: Please, can you give me an answer to this question, i have been getting the run around from all other catholic places, for a long time. here is the question please be specific Thank You Very Much, Tom>>>>
someone asked? if Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did they find a woman to marry to have their kids if they were the first people on earth, was there incest involved? I thought this was a very good question. Thank You Very Much, Tom
 
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There were likely many humans who had a natural soul living in the land, Adam and Eve were the first who were endowed with immortal souls from God. From these two and their children we are all descended. That fact does not mean that the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve could not have had children with the natural souled humans living around them.
 
Maybe i am not making myself clear here. where did cain get women to have children with if adam and ever were his parents? Thanks
 
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Maybe i am not making myself clear here. where did cain get women to have children with if adam and ever were his parents? Thanks
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There are two schools of thought on this:
Adam and Eve were the first humans but not the only humans or alternatively Cain joined with his sister.

There is also a myth about caine being the first vampire unable to die and must live on the blood shed but that would be too cool to be real.
 
Adam and Eve had to be the first humans or we would be calling God a liar?
Also incest is a serious sin, God would not allow it, right?
 
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Also incest is a serious sin,
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Dr. David Anders put this very well on a program last week. Incest was not biblically defined as condemnatory until the time of Moses. As distasteful as it may be for us to imagine, there was likely nothing wrong with Adam’s sons marrying Adam’s daughters. Genesis 5:4 tells us that Adam “begat sons and daughters” and lived to be many hundreds of years in age. I’m sure there were plenty of offspring to go around.
 
Hi, Tom!

…I hope I can help.

I since there were only two Created their children had to have become sexually involved in order to procreate. In the actual and technical sense it was incest since it would be brother and sister… however we do not know if Cain had sex with one of his sisters or nieces (1st, second, third… generation); the fact remains that siblings had to populate the earth.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
This is where you run into a problem… if you accept God as the Sovereign Lord, you must accept the ins and outs of Creation.

The mandates of the Law did not take effect from the first day of Creation as it would be impossible for Adam’s and Eve’s offspring not to have had conjugal relations with each other in order to fulfill God’s Command:
28a And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, (Genesis 1)
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There would come a time when incest would mean something totally different than “necessary for populating the earth.”

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Sorry but i cannot in my heart tell a no catholic that incest was ok by God back then and now it is not acceptable, God never ever changes his mind ever, when it comes to sins or he would have a finite mind like ours. I Thank you all for the replies, i did not mean to leave this question with a forum, i thought i was contacting a knowledgeable Priest. Please don’t reply anymore. appreciate it!!!
 
I pray that you come to understand the wisdom that has been shared in this thread.

The Lord knows what He is doing.

May the Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
 
Yes, the Lord knows but evidently we don’t know, as i said God does not change ever. Again Please no more replies to this subject, Thank You.
 
Adam had other sons and daughters.

Cain probably began his lineage with one of these daughters.

Remember that the text of Genesis before the great flood is divided in themes that aren’t necessarily sequencial in time. So, the sons of Cain most likely came after Seth and some of Adam’s daughters.

Considering all this, then, yes, there probably was breeding among siblings and close relatives, but it looks like it wasn’t a problem back then (at least neither moral nor genetical).
 
Aulef, i understand what you are saying it stands to reason that they had to have committed incest in order to populate.
but how can you explain to a non believer, that incest is a mortal sin, when according to Adam and Eve it is perfectly ok? To be honest the God in my heart is saying there is something not right here. If we could say that incest is not a sin then the explanation is ok, but we all know that is not true. it is still a mortal sin!!!
 
For the most part of Bible history, incest is considered evil and a mortal sin. It is so for sure since right after the great flood, with Ham’s episode. Then it became more clear with Lot’s episode. And then it was settled in Leviticus.

And it still is evil today!

Also, I believe it has been considered evil since the times Noah was born, centuries before the flood, when men were taking women as they seemed fit.

However, at least in the beginning of human kind, it had to be done, for 3 or 4 generations, maybe less. Those were different times. Human metabolism was different. The atmosphere was different. Climate and temperature were different. Genetically, it could had been possible.
 
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Aulef: Yes and if we think about it, if Adam and Eve did not sin we all would have still been born from the same man and women(Adam & Eve) anyway, right?
 
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