Serious question. I have had three family members freak out at me unprovoked over some weird shit the last few weeks, and customers at work are literally on edge, bat shit crazy, seemingly losing their minds and unable to control their rage over the dumbest shit.
Now, the weird part is that the lockdowns are ending in most regions. Does everyone have some kind of PTSD, or are vaxxed people starting to lose it or be controlled by whatever is in that shit?
Anyone else who works in customer service noticing this?
oh come one. adam and eve wasn't literal. How tf did they start a population? They would have had to fuck their own kids, they would've become mutated mongoloids and the human race would never have got going.
I guess there's a number of ways Christians could approach this.
As far as I can recall, there is no mention in Genesis whether there are people outside of the Garden before their exile. I could be wrong about this. And I suppose it depends on how much of a literalist one is whether this theory could work. If you are a sentence by sentence literalist, maybe it doesn't work, not sure.
Another way: The incest taboo/prohibition had not arisen yet at this point. I believe prohibition of incest is formally acknowledged around the time of Abraham. So as shocking as it might be to all of us readers now, it would not have been an abomination for Adam and Eve's immediate progeny because it had not yet been expressly forbidden. (after all, if I'm not mistaken, polygamy is also only expressly prohibited some time after the earliest families are discussed in Genesis)
So there's two explanations which, while not entirely satisfying, are more or less workable by a Christian.
i was thinking more about lack of biological variety rather than taboo.
It would only take eve's daughter to die in childbirth or getting eaten by a tiger and humanity would've ended there and then
wow these mental gymnastics bro