Where did Adam and Eve come from if they were the first people to step on earth?

Answer 1

God is not created he is eternal. Existing without the framework of time, an infinite being. No beginning and no end, not past/present/future. If you see a watch left on the ground you know that it did not suddenly come together on its own. There has to be a watch maker, and our world is much more complex and intricate. God is the beginning of all things.

The opening words of The Bible are "In the beginning God..." Something has to be there at the beginning, otherwise you have no explanation for it. If you know what was there before the the beginning, then that was not the beginning.

When something is created/made, it must have a begin... but God does not have a begin.

You can think of the numbers... If we take the number zero (0) as the middle.

under the zero (0) it goes from -1 to -2 to NO BEGINNING (and above zero (0) to NO END).

so even if time always existed, then God also always existed. but the scientist say that time is product of the BIG BANG(so before the big bang, there was no time).

look at this links, beautiful reasoning. This clips are just 7 minutes each part,(or a little bit more)

http://nl.YouTube.com/watch?v=RmzJgXQ2pgw&feature=related - part 1

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWPLCUhxuk&feature=related - part 2

Answer 2

It would be best if you would open your Bible to the beginning, Genesis and go to chapter 2 and read the account of God creating Adam and Eve I will post it for you to read and then you can look at it your self. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven. Gen 2:5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; Gen 2:6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. Gen 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen 2:8 And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Gen 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. Gen 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; Gen 2:12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush. Gen 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. Gen 2:15 And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Gen 2:16 And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: Gen 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen 2:18 And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. Gen 2:19 And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Gen 2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. Gen 2:21 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: Gen 2:22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Gen 2:23 And the man 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. Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. I hope this help your understanding of the question

Answer 3

One view:

Yes, it seems most likely that Adam and Eve were the very first people on earth. But this likelihood draws upon the definition of a person as capable of certain things, such as speech. There may have been other human like beings before Adam and Eve. But such human like beings weren't capable of speech. So their creation may have been included in the creation of animals on the fifth day of the world's creation [Genesis 1:20-23], instead of on the sixth [1:24-31].

Answer 4

Every religion has its creation story and therefore its story of the first person on earth. Judaism, followed by Christianity, actually has two creation stories in the Book of Genesis, and Adam and Eve feature in the second story (Genesis 2:4b-25) as the first persons on earth. The subsequent biblical genealogies suggest that they lived around six thousand years ago.

Science tells us that modern humans evolved more than two hundred thousand years ago, so it is not possible for Adam and Eve to literally be the first persons on earth. In fact several major Christian denominations accept that fact, with the Roman Catholic Church merely stating that Catholics need only believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans to be blessed with souls.

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