Everyone makes incest jokes about Adam and Eve and their children but they never mention that there was another woman named Lilith (Adam's first wife) who would have added variance to the gene pool. - eviltoast
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      We’re here for an interesting discussion. Mythology totally off the table for you?

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        lol… I’m not even an atheist and I recognize the shit is all made up. Do you actually believe it happened?? or is this just “everyone I don’t like is ugly”

        to be fuckin honest, if the guy in the picture said the top comment, that’s probably one of the most sexy and agreeable things he’s said since breakfast

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          It’s not even that I disagree with you, it’s that there can’t be a discussion about the lore of a religion without someone trying to feel smart and superior by saying it’s all made up.

          Like, yes… Obviously. That’s not the point of the post. People are allowed to enjoy things.

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    Two things about that (overanalyzing your shower thought):

    1. Geneticists have what they call the “50/500 rule,” which basically means that you need at least 50 people to avoid inbreeding, and at least 500 to avoid genetic drift. So while three people are 50% better than two, it’s not going to come close to avoiding inbreeding.

    2. If you read up on Lilith, including your Wikipedia link, you’ll see her name only comes up once in the Bible, and it’s not as Adam’s wife. All the stuff about her comes from other things, including Babylonian and Mesopotamian writings, and lots of folklore from the middle ages. And at that, she’s sometimes Adam’s first wife, with different explanations about what happened to her that really in her not coming back to the garden, or she’s a demon. So there’s not much likelihood that she’s contributing to the gene pool.

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      The only counterpoint i can see is that god is (honestly, at best WAS) infallible.
      So god made 2 perfect humans who cannot inbreed as there are no defective genes.
      At some point down the line, mutations came in and introduced possible genes that could combine/dominate to produce inbreeding.

      If we are accepting the premise of 2 original humans, why not 2 perfect original humans.
      If God made eve from adams rib, why not have them be genetically perfect.
      But Im sure there is some science i am missing where a huge genome analysis has shown that “perfect” genes have never or could not ever exist.

      And, tbh, this might as well be all science fiction based on a bunch of made up stories.

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        If I remember my hermeneutics, the canon is that essentially, God had “blessed” early descendants of Adam and Eve, allowing their children to thrive.

        It wasn’t until after the flood I believe that incest becomes more of a theme in the Bible, implying that they shouldn’t have children.

        But it’s been years since I gave this any serious study so I may be remembering incorrectly.

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          It all makes more sense when you consider these stories in their historical social context. They’re a compiled bundle of stories from various religious traditions that were kind of grafted together to form one monotheistic state religion to help unify the country. So you find stories from both north and south Judah for example, the two creation myths in Genesis. And you see the monotheistic god referred to by more than one moniker because they were originally different gods.

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    Because Lilith isn’t mentioned in all versions of the Adam and Eve story, and certainly isn’t mentioned in Genesis. There’s plenty of versions of the story with lots of different characters, and plenty of interpretations of what happens, but in the Canonical Christian Bible, there are at least two events where the entire human race is only directly described as being one single family - Adam and Eve, and Noah’s flood.

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      The confusion comes from Genesis giving two creation accounts of a woman.

      Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

      then later…

      Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

      It appears that a man and a woman were created at the same time in Genesis 1:27, then later in Genesis 2:22 a woman was created from a rib

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        This is probably a result of the Hebrew literary practice of narrating a story once in poetic language and then again in prose. So it’s the same man and woman being created, just retold in a different style.

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          This is correct. Context is everything in understanding any historical source. The Hebrew texts are no different, in fact they’re a great case study in this field. They’re littered with complex poems.

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          My understanding is that these were two separate stories that were compiled into official state religious texts at the time of King Josiah to unify the country under one monotheistic religion.

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        Current scholarly consensus is that the Geneses are actually two different accounts, one likely originating in ancient Israel and the other in ancient Judah. It’s why the two stories are so startlingly different when you read them side by side.

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          Exactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).

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      The Bible, and even the Torah, are compilations from stories that existed before these particular books were written down. However, the character of Lilith as “first wife of Adam” is probably not something left out of the Torah, but a much later invention.

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    Because Lilith is not actually mentioned in the Christian bible despite this wiki page’s attestation she is mentioned in Isaiah. She only appears in rabbitic literature.

    Lilith is also the catalyst to a lot of vampire myths often described as the mother of all vampires.

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    Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden

    Based.


    All Hail Lilith, The sacred mother of Feminism

    Tone

    satire

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      She became the first demon. The first example of the Bible literally demonizing women.

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        Sort of but not really. Lilith isn’t in the biblical version of Adam and Eve. There might be one mention of Lilith in and unrelated story in Isaiah, or it might be an old Hebrew word for screech owl.

        The connection to Adam comes from folktales and fanfics written 1,000 years later. In terms of biblical tradition, she’s closer to Steve than Adam.

        The Bible does a fine job of demonizing women, starting with Eve. But Christians don’t need a scriptural reason to demonize something they can’t control.

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      That’s the reason my wife and I named our daughter Lilith.

      She’s not taking anyone’s shit.

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    Which might be relevant if those were real people. You might as well worry about the genetic makeup of Pokemon

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    Incest doesn’t inherently cause genetic disorders, it just increases your chance of being born with recessive genetic disorders. Most of those disorders are mutations, and if the Garden of Eden is so perfect there probably aren’t genetic disorders to start out with, meaning incest is fine from a genetic perspective. All the genetic disorders would be mutations later down the line. Maybe they’re punishment for the original sin or something, to fit it into the themes of the story.

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      That’s a fantastic retroactive nonsensical explanation for Adam and Eve. Bravo.

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      Nah genetic disorders aren’t mutations, they’re incorrect copies of original traits. I’m not a geneticist so don’t quote me on this, but the reason incest causes problems has nothing to do with mutations as they rarely happen and everything to do with not having enough variation in your own genetics to cover when there’s “data loss”. Again, I’m not a scientist.

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      Literally what the Talmud is after Jesus showed up who basically perfectly matched their messiah, but they rejected Him because he didn’t come with an army to bring them greatness lmao

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    Anyone feel like this is just the story of some douche who divorced his awesome wife to find a subservient slave wife and over thousands of years its become part of a religion?

    “Oh that Lilith we don’t talk about her she was a demon” he tells his grandson and 200 years after the story people interpret her as a literal demon, and just gets wackier and wackier as time goes on. Kinda feel like you could explain all that Abrahamic lore that way.

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        Adam passed up a creampie loving dick riding demon. They were sterile and she didn’t have monthlies. Lilith wouldn’t have had him eat the apple, she would have had him on pineapple and water until the sky fell as fire and it rained as ashes.

        Lilith fucks back, Eve wanted to do it through a sheet. Adam was a damned fool.

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    Couldn’t God just create more humans after the first three? Is it certain that he creates 3 and then explicitly stops?

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      Eve had two sons. Cain found a wife “somewhere”. Cain was also marked so no one would kill him, but the three other people known to exist were his parents and dead brother.

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        Cain found a wife in the Land of Nod. It’s never explained where those people came from.

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          Genesis 5:4. Eve had three named sons (Cain, Abel and Seth), but also other sons and daughters. That would be where Cain found his wife.

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            But he was cursed and went East, presumably to another tribe? Need to read Genisis again.

            LOL, the two creation myths confused me as well. That’s another interesting tale to take apart.

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      He apparently did. Cain was sent east of Eden to the Land of Nod where he found a wife.

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      Yes, but Cain and/or Abel could have sex with Lilith and that offspring would not be the result of inbreeding.

      Also, Eve could have sex with the offspring of Adam and Lilith and that would not be inbreeding.

      After that everything else is unless there are more people.

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    Thing is, Lilith didn’t pop up in texts apart from post-Jesus, such as talmudic texts. (although a Lilith was mentioned in Isaiah, it could have been a demon of some sort) so she’d only really be regarded by modern day Judaism, not by Christians.