Did God create other people besides Adam and Eve?

[jacquidube]

Im asking because after Cain killed Abel he was afraid that others would try to kill him.

What other people is he talking about?

Thankyou.

 

[TakeAllOfMe]

Adam and Eve had many more children than Cain and Abel. I believe this is referring to his brothers and sisters as the 'other people'.

 

[amItrue]

My dad and I were just talking about this the other day. lol Well, we didn't come to any set conclusions but I do think it's interesting. About Adam and Eve having other children and that's who Cain was afraid of.... If you look at

Genesis 4:25 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.

I think this Scripture is saying that Adam and Eve didn't have any other seed other than Abel and Cain until here, when God blessed them with Seth so you could assume that those were their only children. I'm not sure but I think by seed they could have meant boy child so they could have had daughters earlier on and those daughters had children and that's who Cain was afraid of. I'm not sure but it's an interesting question.

 

[Johnnz]

We don't really know. The Bible is silent about this. But that reference to other people, and the fact that Cain and Abel built cities suggests there were.

If you have a time frame of 6000 odd years BC those scriptures can only lead us to conjecture. If you allow for a longer time period other possibilities arise. But, we must not be dogmatic about something the scripture id silent about.

John
NZ

 

[TakeAllOfMe]

My dad and I were just talking about this the other day. lol Well, we didn't come to any set conclusions but I do think it's interesting. About Adam and Eve having other children and that's who Cain was afraid of.... If you look at

Genesis 4:25 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.

I think this Scripture is saying that Adam and Eve didn't have any other seed other than Abel and Cain until here, when God blessed them with Seth so you could assume that those were their only children. I'm not sure but I think by seed they could have meant boy child so they could have had daughters earlier on and those daughters had children and that's who Cain was afraid of. I'm not sure but it's an interesting question.

I think that scripture is refering to the 'coming together' of Adam and Eve that resulted in Seth's birth, not that they didn't have children or 'know each other' in between times. There are a lot of births and people not mentioned in the Bible. Even the brothers and sisters of Jesus barely rate a mention. Just one of those things we can't have certainty about.

 

[jacquidube]

Seth came after Abel was killed.

Its really my husband querying this, I dont care how people were to be to be quite honest.

He said that God must have created other people elsewhere besides Adam and Eve because at the time Cain said that to God there was apparently only Adam and Eve and their 2 children.

You know wouldnt it make sense that God created other humans. Its better than worrying about incest and all that happening and thats how we came about.

 

[TakeAllOfMe]

Seth came after Abel was killed.

Its really my husband querying this, I dont care how people were to be to be quite honest.

He said that God must have created other people elsewhere besides Adam and Eve because at the time Cain said that to God there was apparently only Adam and Eve and their 2 children.

You know wouldnt it make sense that God created other humans. Its better than worrying about incest and all that happening and thats how we came about.

Even evolutionary based science has shown we have two common ancestors. Incest wasn't such an issue then as we were stronger and less degenerate at that stage so offspring weren't affected the same way by genetic issues as they might be now.
Biblically, scientificially, there is no suggestion God created other people.

 

[Robinsegg]

I agree, he's talking about family. There is no indication there are other people "walking around".

Also, there is no indication that there were no children between Abel and Seth. The first two are mentioned for a reason, as is Seth.

Rachel

 

[Johnnz]

Many Christians believe that the Genesis account is a compiled story (it obviously is because there was no one to record those early events), that gives an account of key issues of God's dealings with mankind rather than a completely consecutive 'historical' account. If that is so, then there is much that has not been written about, leaving room for all sorts of possibilities.

John
NZ

 

[Elijah2]

Seth came after Abel was killed.

Its really my husband querying this, I dont care how people were to be to be quite honest.

He said that God must have created other people elsewhere besides Adam and Eve because at the time Cain said that to God there was apparently only Adam and Eve and their 2 children.

You know wouldnt it make sense that God created other humans. Its better than worrying about incest and all that happening and thats how we came about.

Jacqui, The two sons married their two sisters. Cain was jealous because he loved his sister, but he married Abel's sister.

Now the "others" were all the other members of the family. Adam and Eve would produced many children, and because the Bible doesn't give us all the information, but being like logical thinking humans, and not some programmed brainwashed people, we know what goes on behind the shower screen in a movie when we see a person behind it. Yep, they are naked, but we don't see their nakedness do we?

Oh well, in the black and white movies we didn't, but it's a bit different today, in the latter day of perilous times of vivic and explicit blood and gore.

Others are not doubt other family, because that is a logical thought, unless he was worried about God's angels or the Sons of God.

Be blessed in Jesus' Name.

 

[heron]

You know wouldnt it make sense that God created other humans. Its better than worrying about incest and all that happening and thats how we came about.

I agree. Cain built a city in Gen. 4:17. "And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me."

"Anyone" doesn't sound like a few brothers and sisters, as with being driven out from the face of the earth. (14)

 

[heron]

We are assuming that it was one man and one woman in all the accounts, but it wasn't always specified.

1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

This account doesn't specify that it was one man.

Man --
Strong's Number: 0120ed)
Word Origin ed) from (0119 )
'adam aw-dawm

Definition man, mankind

1. 
   
2. man, human being
3. man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)
4. Adam, first man
5. city in Jordan valley

2:15 Then the Lord God took man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva] Adam = "red" [/FONT]

1. [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva]
   [*] first man
   [*] city in Jordan valley[/FONT]

 

[Quasicentennial]

Naturalist television presenter David Attenborough knows that the Earth and the universe are billions of years old and that God's creation of 6000 years is totally irrelevant. Adam and Eve were created as ageless adults until Satan's unexpected visit in the garden of Eden. Science could definitely be correct with the age of Earth and the universe being in the billions because time of man's conflict was recorded when Adam and Eve sinned that started six thousand years ago. It is possible that Adam and Eve were childrenless for a very long time until Satan's first encounter with them. Children were not necessary if God created beings into adults.