Did God create Adam & Eve being that there were already people on Earth?

[angels4u]

37 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

Even science believes that all of humanity is descended from one male and one female.

Agree,in the beginning..

[Indentured Servant]

4 minutes ago, Marston said:

Cain killed Abel. Only Cain and his parents remained. So who are the others to whom Cain and God referenced? It seems that they were other people. 

One of the primary tasks for Adam and Eve was to reproduce and populate the earth.

Cain and Able could have been as old as 200 years at the time.

Adam and Eve had daughters also, as well as other sons; however, God chose to document only the children who were important to the bloodline to Jesus. (Based on Eve's statement about Seth replacing Able, it is likely that she understood that he was a chosen son, not that she hadn't had any other children.)

If reproduction was as early as fifteen years of age, one could reasonably consider that every fifteen years, or so, there would be exponential population growth.

It's conceivable that within 200 years, (or less), that there were thousands of people who descended from Adam and Eve and had been carrying on the task of populating the world, and building towns, etc.

[Marston]

50 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

Even science believes that all of humanity is descended from one male and one female.

Perhaps Noah and his family were all descendants of Adam and Eve and so all modern DNA goes through Noah to Adam and Eve, which would mean that the DNA of other human lineages became extinct.

Let's not forget that there were (apparently) various types of human species that once existed.

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis

Edited April 12 by Marston

[Marathoner]

58 minutes ago, NConly said:

Is it possible that Adam and Eve had many kids that moved away

Gen 5

4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

I don't hold that particular belief. Rather, I'm familiar with some arguments forwarded by those who do. 

[Marston]

9 minutes ago, Indentured Servant said:

One of the primary tasks for Adam and Eve was to reproduce and populate the earth.

Cain and Able could have been as old as 200 years at the time.

Adam and Eve had daughters also, as well as other sons; however, God chose to document only the children who were important to the bloodline to Jesus. (Based on Eve's statement about Seth replacing Able, it is likely that she understood that he was a chosen son, not that she hadn't had any other children.)

If reproduction was as early as fifteen years of age, one could reasonably consider that every fifteen years, or so, there would be exponential population growth.

It's conceivable that within 200 years, (or less), that there were thousands of people who descended from Adam and Eve and had been carrying on the task of populating the world, and building towns, etc.

It seems more likely to me that God and Cain were referring to other people who were not related to Adam and Eve. 

[Marston]

Genesis 1:26-31 esv

26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

 

27 So God created man in his own image,

    in the image of God he created him;

    male and female he created them.

 

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

[Marston]

Here is Genesis 2 (esv) and we can see that the creation of Adam and Eve is wholly separate from God's creation of human beings in Genesis 1.

Genesis 2

English Standard Version

The Seventh Day, God Rests

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

4 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.

5 When no bush of the field[a] was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die.”

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[e] him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed[f] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[g] there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[h] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was taken out of Man.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Edited April 12 by Marston

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, Marston said:

God, of course.

This is a good example of why my time on Worthy is limited. I am very tired of all the false teaching.

[Edward429451]

1 hour ago, Indentured Servant said:

One of the primary tasks for Adam and Eve was to reproduce and populate the earth.

Cain and Able could have been as old as 200 years at the time.

Adam and Eve had daughters also, as well as other sons; however, God chose to document only the children who were important to the bloodline to Jesus. (Based on Eve's statement about Seth replacing Able, it is likely that she understood that he was a chosen son, not that she hadn't had any other children.)

If reproduction was as early as fifteen years of age, one could reasonably consider that every fifteen years, or so, there would be exponential population growth.

It's conceivable that within 200 years, (or less), that there were thousands of people who descended from Adam and Eve and had been carrying on the task of populating the world, and building towns, etc.

 

That's the way I see it too. Be Fruitful and Multiply God told them. And everybody back then lived for a long time. So they could have waited 200 years easy before they started thinking about progeny. They prolly seen more women and, eventually thought it might be nice to have some kids. 

Nowadays people start having kids and chasing girls at 16-18 and many times even younger! But the reason that everyone thinks they cant live without a woman is because of the billions of dollars of advertising about sex. 

If you dont bombard them with sex since they are 5 years old, geez they might wait 200 years before they decide to get married! And that's our proof! It makes sense.  

[Marston]

1 hour ago, missmuffet said:

This is a good example of why my time on Worthy is limited. I am very tired of all the false teaching.

That's unkind.