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Connie: I was wondering, Adam and Eve, it tells said in the Bible that they had three sons. And I'm wondering, where did they find wives for them if Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth?

Pastor Mike: Well, the Bible doesn't say they just had three sons. As a matter of fact, the Bible is very clear that they had other children. And because of that, uh we know, you know, it says in in verse 20 of Genesis 3, Eve was the mother of all living. And not only were there Cain and Abel who are very clearly pointed out because um they had such a dramatic situation. But uh the Bible's clear that they had other other children. And because of that, and you know, they lived to be over 900 years old, they had a lot of time and a lot of health in a world that really sustained different kinds of healthy bodies the way our world does not.

And uh they had uh dozens and dozens of children, I'm quite sure, over the hundreds of years that they were fertile in having children. So, they got they got their spouses from this family that was exponentially growing. Let's just think about 900 years. Think about that. It Just think about 200 years. Go back 200 years in time. How long does it take for two people who are having healthy children that are growing up in a matter of of a couple of decades able to take on spouses and have children? You have no problem with a gene pool that's corrupted.

It's it's it's freshly made by God. Uh no problem marrying your sister or your half sister. It may be icky in our mind, but I think God has helped us get there. And actually, by the time we got to the Mosaic Law, he said you can't marry your sister, but it was happening because it needed to happen. And you've got all kinds of people. It could be your niece or your second cousin that you end up uh marrying because the procreation is taking place for hundreds of years. And everyone then that gets a spouse is having decades and and even uh centuries of of having children.

That's the way life worked and God stretched these lives out in the early period prior to the flood to be hundreds of years old. So, Adam and Eve had lots of children and their children had lots of children. And in a matter of time, if you do the exponential multiplication, uh we've got lots and lots of people to choose from as the uh population grows exponentially.

Connie: Yeah. That makes sense.

Pastor Mike: Yeah. They have a lot of children. And And you know, when we think about well, God says you can't marry your your close relative. And it does say that in the Mosaic Law, but remember that's in in the 15th century before Christ. We We don't even know how long it was from the time of Adam and Eve to Moses and all that period of time, even in Genesis. You go back to Abraham, right? He's marrying his half sister and his kids are marrying their half sisters and their cousins. And all of that was no big deal, particularly because we didn't have the problems.

The reason I wasn't supposed to marry a close relative in the modern era is because of all the genetic weaknesses. We don't want those to be compounded and have problems with my children. And that is, you know, certainly important in a gene pool that's been copied so many times. Like taking a picture, putting it on the copy machine at work and making copies of copies, not from the same original, but copies of copies. And that's what's wrong with our gene pool today. And in reality, we know that God is creating something that's healthy and robust.

And of course, in Genesis 3, we get all the the genetic problems that come with God cursing the ground, the stuff that human beings are made of. And we start to have problems, but those problems were very minuscule at the beginning. And we had centuries of of productivity and uh reproduction taking place with everyone in the beginning of um of Genesis. So, yeah, they married their close relatives, which is abhorrent to us or at least icky to us, but it wasn't to them. And And God was blessing the uh fruitfulness and the fertility of the early world.

Connie, does that Does that help?

Connie: Yes, it does. That makes sense, too. Thank you.

Pastor Mike: Okay. Okay. Yes. Well, thank you, Connie. Appreciate the call and I get it. That's a really good question and it