Did God only create Adam and Eve? Does that mean we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and if so are we all related?<\/p>\n\t
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth …’<\/em>” (Genesis 1:27-28). God created two beings, a male and a female. From these two was the earth filled. Genesis 2 gives the details of that creation. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being<\/em>.\u00a0… And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”<\/em>” (Genesis 2:7,\u00a021-23). We preserve this in our language to this day. Both the words “woman” and “female” means “from man.”<\/p>\n Paul told the Athenians, “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth<\/em>” (Acts 17:26). So, yes, we are all related. Eve was formed from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:21-22), so we are literally all descend from\u00a0one<\/strong> blood, which is Adam. The notion of race doesn’t exist in the Bible; instead, it speaks of nationalities which is much more accurate. This is why any human male can produce children with any human female, we are all of one family.<\/p>\n Further, we all descend from Noah because only Noah, his wife, his sons, and their wives were saved from the flood (Genesis 6-8). Thus all males share DNA from Noah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Did God only create Adam and Eve? Does that mean we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and if so are we all related? Answer: “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 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