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from Jesus:
This is a very intelligent and logical question, which those who insist
that the Bible is the infallible word of God or that it should be interpreted
literally either overlook or refuse to consider.
Genesis, Chapter 4 makes it clear that Adam and Even had three children,
and they were all boys. So if Adam and Eve truly were the first humans
and the only humans in the Garden, how could their three sons have begotten
children? Genesis Chapter 4 says:
16 And Cain went
out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on
the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name
of his son, Enoch.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead
of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Who was Cain’s wife
and where did she come from? For whom did Cain build a city; himself,
his wife and Enoch? Who was Seth’s wife and where did she come
from?
Logically, there is
no way Adam and Eve could be the parents of humanity if they had only
sons and if there were no other people on the planet. Given what is
known today about genetics, it simply isn’t possible that two
people could be the parents of the entire human race. The gene pool
would have been too narrow and the inevitable effect would have been
degenerative birth defects that would have led the race to become extinct
within a few generations.
So if you insist that the Bible is the infallible word of God and that
it should be interpreted literally, you have no way of explaining this.
You have to either deny the Bible or the biological facts. This is indeed
what has happened since the birth of science, namely that people have
been forced into taking one of two extreme positions. They either cling
to the infallibility of the Bible and deny all evidence to the contrary
or they cling to materialism and deny all evidence for a spiritual side
of life.
It is my hope with this website to show people that there is an alternative
to these dualistic extremes. The alternative is the Christ mind which
enables you to see the middle way that is above both extremes.
In this case, the fact is that Adam and Eve were not the only people
on Earth and they were not the only souls to fall from the Garden of
Eden. The story of Adam and Eve is not the ultimate beginning of human
life on Earth. Adam and Eve should be seen as archetypes, and their
story simply tells the story of an entire evolution of souls. These
souls first descended into a spiritual school, illustrated as the Garden
of Eden. The God in the garden was a spiritual teacher by the name Lord
Maitreya. The garden existed in a realm of higher vibrations that is
not visible to the physical senses of human beings.
As I explain elsewhere,
only some of the people in the garden fell into a lower state of consciousness.
Others ascended from the garden. Those who fell, lowered the vibration
of their consciousness until they could no longer see the garden. They
then took on the denser physical bodies that people wear today.
As I said, there were a number of souls who fell at the same time. Yet
there were already millions of human beings living in the material frequency
spectrum. It was with these people that the sons of Adam and Eve married
and had children. Because these people had already descended far below
the level of the Christ consciousness, this intermarrying actually hastened
the descent in consciousness of the people who fell from the garden.
It sped up the process that caused them to forget their spiritual origin.
So the short answer is that there was no incest involved, and the reason
was that there were many souls who fell and they fell into a frequency
spectrum that was already inhabited by people with whom they could intermarry.
Obviously, this answer would not be acceptable to orthodox Christians
or materialistic scientists. Yet it is a fact.
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