{"id":42431,"date":"2014-04-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=42431"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T02:39:04","slug":"were-adam-and-eve-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/were-adam-and-eve-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Adam and Eve married?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>This might be a dumb question but someone brought it up today at school and it was a little confusing. If premarital sex is a sin, Adam and Eve weren&#8217;t married, and they had sex. So is that why we are all born in sin?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Actually, it is a very good question.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing the duration of a marriage, Jesus quoted what happened when God created Adam and Eve. &#8220;<em>And He answered and said to them, &#8220;Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning &#8216;made them male and female,&#8217; &#8220;and said, &#8216;For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh&#8217;? &#8220;So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate<\/em>&#8221; (Matthew 19:4-6). Therefore, Jesus is saying that Adam and Eve were married. Notice in Genesis 2:24, which Jesus quoted, that there are three steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>People leave their parents.<\/li>\n<li>People are joined to their spouse &#8212; in other words, married.<\/li>\n<li>People begin the process of being one flesh &#8212; they become a new family unit; of course, sex is one aspect of this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sex isn&#8217;t directly mentioned until after the fall of man in Genesis 3.\u00a0In Genesis 4:1, we read, &#8220;<em>Now Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, &#8220;I have acquired a man from the LORD.&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The concept that people are born in sin is a popular myth, one not found in the Scriptures. See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-babies-born-sinners\/\">Are Babies Born Sinners?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/genesis-a-study-of-the-beginning\/the-fall-of-man\/is-sin-inherited-from-adam\/\">Is Sin Inherited from Adam?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/four-facts-fatal-to-original-sin\/\">Four Facts Fatal to Original Sin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hello! This might be a dumb question but someone brought it up today at school and it was a little confusing. If premarital sex is a sin, Adam and Eve weren&#8217;t married, and they had sex. So is that why we are all born in sin? Answer: Actually, it is a very good question.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[217,488,189,1196,64],"class_list":["post-42431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-adam","tag-eve","tag-genesis","tag-inherited-sins","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32735,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-does-god-say-a-man-and-woman-have-to-be-married\/","url_meta":{"origin":42431,"position":0},"title":"Where does God say a man and woman have to be married?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Where in the Bible does it say or indicate that a man and a woman have to be married?\u00a0 Adam and Eve coexisted there was no ceremony. 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