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Adam and Eve's grandchildren

Adam and Eve aren't literally the first two people, they're the archetypes of Man and Woman represented by two individuals. We descend from them in the sense that every man is Adam and every woman is Eve. In terms of causality, it would be more accurate to say that Adam and Eve ascend from us.
 
Maybe...just maybe Adam and Eve were nothing more than an experiment - placed in an isolated garden - tested to see if they would never sin. Experiment failed so they were then sent out in the world with the rest of the humans.
 
queenmandy85 said:
Someone posed the following question to me yesterday: If we are all descended from Adam and Eve, and they had two sons, how did they have grandchildren? Aside from Eve, there were no women.
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"The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was 33 sons and 23 daughters." - Ancient Jewish historian Josephus
 
Logicman said:
"The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was 33 sons and 23 daughters." - Ancient Jewish historian Josephus
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He didn't have any children because he never existed.
 
queenmandy85 said:
Someone posed the following question to me yesterday: If we are all descended from Adam and Eve, and they had two sons, how did they have grandchildren? Aside from Eve, there were no women.
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Supposedly there was Eve herself. It is a silly question, though, because you are pointing out a discrepancy in a piece of literature designed to teach moral and life lessons. It isn't a history book.
 
fmw said:
Supposedly there was Eve herself. It is a silly question, though, because you are pointing out a discrepancy in a piece of literature designed to teach moral and life lessons. It isn't a history book.
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Some people believe it to be a history book.
 
zyzygy said:
Some people believe it to be a history book.
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Some people believe that we are visited by extra-terrestrial aliens. People can believe what they like.
 
Some people believe it to be the inerrant Word of God. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
 
fmw said:
Supposedly there was Eve herself. It is a silly question, though, because you are pointing out a discrepancy in a piece of literature designed to teach moral and life lessons. It isn't a history book.
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A good many people, though, take it as a history book
 
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