Question: If Adam and Eve were the first, then does that mean that their children engaged in incest?
Answer: The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve were the first man and woman and Cain was their first son. His wife must therefore have been his sister. This seems strange (or worse!) to us but we know that that is where the human race all started, and this incest was under God's control and guidance.
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Well, Adam is said to have lived 130 years before the birth of his third child Seth. During those first 130 years, there was only one woman, Eve, and three men—Adam, Cain, and, the most able-bodied of them all, Abel. All of Adam's un-named daughters born were born after Seth’s birth. My guess is that for the first century or so of human existence, Cain and Abel were not just holding their breath waiting for the birth and maturity of their first true sister (daughter of Adam) but that Eve was doing all of them and that Cain murdered Abel to win more of Eve’s resultingly less-divided attention. Maybe Eve was even more partial to Abel’s able-bodied needs (he was younger, too) than Cain’s and Cain simply got jealous. In any case, Eve was said to view Seth, the third child, as “Abel’s replacement”. Why did Abel need “a replacement”? Because Eve, after Cain was banished, didn’t want to revert to the unimagination of non-incestuous monogamy?!
After Cain was banished, he was given a special mark that caused others to fear him. In the book Demian by Hermann Hesse, the character Demian offers an alternative explanation for the “Mark of Cain” as being one of distinction that made other people cautiosuly fearful and respective rather than one of shame that brought chastisement upon the bearer. The truth is that Cain went forth into the land of Nod, built a town, took a wife, and lived a pretty damn good life ever after. But where did Cain’s wife come from? Was it a full sister born from sometime after Seth’s birth? But how the hell would Cain ever meet any of his siblings once he had gone forth into the wilderness never to return? My reasoning is that Cain’s wife was either his daughter with Eve or Abel’s daughter with Eve and that when "banished", he took this girl for a wife with him. The Bible doesn’t mention such, but doesn’t exclude such either. But it does logically exclude female offspring from Adam and Eve until such a late date as to make an available wife for the far-off wandering Cain a virtual impossibility. Maybe Cain and Abel fought a fair duel over their first nubile, adolescently-emerging daughter-sister and Cain won! He was the victor, was given a mark of distinction for his dominance, and set out with her to live long and prosper!
And in America, we thought the Old West was wild—ha!
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