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Summary
- Adam and Eve were not brother and sister. God formed Adam from the dust (Genesis 2:7) and made Eve from Adam’s rib (Genesis 2:21–22), so neither had a father or a mother.
- Adam called Eve “bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23), and Genesis goes straight on to marriage (Genesis 2:24).
- Eve was not born, so she was neither Adam’s sister nor his daughter. Paul wrote that “the woman is of the man” and “the man also by the woman; but all things of God” (1 Corinthians 11:12).
- In Genesis every one of us descends from Adam and Eve, so the whole human race is one family (Acts 17:26).
- The traditional Jewish and Christian answer is that their children married one another, before the law of Moses forbade marriage between brother and sister (Leviticus 18:9).
- No text in the Bible says Eve had children by any of her sons.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- King James Version: Genesis 2:7, 2:18–24; 3:20; 4:1, 4:17, 4:25; 5:2, 5:4; 20:12; Leviticus 18:9; 20:17; Malachi 2:10; Luke 3:38; Acts 17:26; 1 Corinthians 11:8–12, BibleGateway.
- Augustine, The City of God 15.16, tr. Marcus Dods (1887), New Advent.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 385–390, vatican.va.
- The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church (Philaret of Moscow), pravoslavieto.com.
- The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapters 4 and 6, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, opc.org.
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