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13106, Other people created
Posted by Mokudan, Thu Jun-21-01 08:02 PM

>Were Adam and Eve the ONLY
>people created by God? If
>so did their children procreate
>with one another?

The first chapters of Genesis provide two DISTINCT creation stories. (Undoubtedly they are the products of different authors, possibly working centuries apart from one another. That's the thing about the O.T., ya know?) Anyway, check out Gen 1:27. (I happen to have a Revised Standard Version in front of me, so that's what I'm quoting.) "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

Okay, now move on to 2:4-7. "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground— then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

This second creation is the beginning of the story, and the man referred to here turns out to be Adam, as we all know. So if you want to read the Bible in a literal way, then the answer to your question is no, Adam and Eve weren't the only folks God created.

This all begs the question, "Why, then, are there two creation stories side by side in the Bible?" There's a very cool theory I've heard about this which maybe I'll get around to posting later if anyone's interested.

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