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

[Indentured Servant]

6 hours ago, Marston said:

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

That does not jive with the creation narrative of Scripture, but you are, of course, entitled to a simpler interpretation.

[Marston]

2 minutes ago, Indentured Servant said:

That does not jive with the creation narrative of Scripture, but you are, of course, entitled to a simpler interpretation.

So the other people were Cain's siblings and Cain and God were discussing the possibility of them killing Cain???

[Marston]

26 minutes ago, Luther said:

You said: " Evidently, Adam & Eve came after the first humans."

According to scripture that's not true:

1 Corinthians 15:45 KJV

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

That's a great point. 

So who were the humans that God created in Genesis 1?

[Marston]

8 hours ago, missmuffet said:

Adam and Eve were the first humans created by God. The Bible is silent on any other

What about Genesis 1?

[Wayne222]

To me there were no other humans created apart from Adem and Eve. It clearly says all of humanity is in Adam. Now the new creation is in Christ the second Adam. 

[Indentured Servant]

10 minutes ago, Marston said:

So the other people were Cain's siblings and Cain and God were discussing the possibility of them killing Cain???

Yes, siblings, nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

Adam, Eve, and their offspring were concerned with populating the earth, and establishing communities, villages, towns, etc.

The locale of where Cain was sent could have been made up of descendants of himself, his brother, and of his parents.

The Bible alludes to this, but it was not necessary for God to document the lineage to explain this. 

Consider this: the story of the Tower of Babel included the descendants of Noah, but Scripture did not expound on how they became residents of Babel.

Ya' just have to understand that God's primary focus was to "populate the earth."

[Retrobyter]

7 hours ago, Marston said:

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

Shalom, @Marston.

No, Qayin ("Cain") had MANY brothers and sisters, one of whom became his wife. Their genetics were capable of FAR more diversity in their time, than it is today. We have reasons today for not having too close of ties to family members; consequently, we have laws against incest. 

Genesis 2, by the way, is simply the way that Hebrew literature zooms in on the details of a particular day of the Creation account. Most of chapter 2 is on the details of Day 6 of Creation.

There were no other people.

Also, this explains why one of his own brothers or nephews would go after him for killing a close relative. There are other instances in the Tanakh (the OT) of people being "revengers of blood," who would dedicate themselves to revenge for the slain.

[Marston]

1 minute ago, Indentured Servant said:

Yes, siblings, nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

Adam, Eve, and their offspring were concerned with populating the earth, and establishing communities, villages, towns, etc.

The locale of where Cain was sent could have been made up of descendants of himself, his brother, and of his parents.

The Bible alludes to this, but it was not necessary for God to document the lineage to explain this. 

Consider this: the story of the Tower of Babel included the descendants of Noah, but Scripture did not expound on how they became residents of Babel.

Ya' just have to understand that God's primary focus was to "populate the earth."

 

Ok. So who were the people in Genesis 1 and what happened to them?

[Indentured Servant]

Just now, Marston said:

 

Ok. So who were the people in Genesis 1 and what happened to them?

Please elaborate... To what people from Genesis 1 are you referring?

[Marston]

21 minutes ago, Indentured Servant said:

Please elaborate... To what people from Genesis 1 are you referring?

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.