If Adam and Eve are first people on earth does it mean all people are related?

[Anonymous]

[Johnagain]

"If." You said if... and that implies the possibility of, "Not."
Actually, there was Lilith... Excluded, were certain books (by the Catholic Church)
which is a no-no!

[Guy__]

It's a story not meant to be interpreted literally, but we still are all related in a different way.

[Soteris]

Yes. But this is also true with evolution, just that there was never a point with just two "humans" as species evolves in groups rather than individuals but all life had a beginning and its generally assumed that even if there were several lives created on earth, only one family has survived until today by essentially killing everything else before they had a chance to develop by themselves.

As such, everything alive is related to everything else. Its just a question of how many generations it takes to go back from a human until you meet up with the banana or something.

[NamerOfStars]

This is one of those areas the Bible's not clear on; I'm not sure why more Mishraic stiff didn't make it out of the apocrypha. Adam and Eve weren't supposed to be the first humans; Eden was Yahweh's little corner of the world, not the epicenter of all creation. Note Cain worrying that "other men will kill me" when the only other man left was his father. Note also his wife.

Those specifics aside, remember that if a god can create ONE set of humans, it's surely possible to create more, so there's no reason to assume that it was a one-and-done.

Evolutionarily, we ARE all related, but the time scale goes up quite a bit- not as much as you might think, though.

[slatyb]

They aren't, but yes we are. At some point everyone either becomes an ancestor of all humanity or none of it.

[SecretsofKB]

That's how I always took it. And that's another fundamental problem I see with religion.

[Rizwan_khan]

Yeah we can say that and it is logical thing that human race is started through one man and one women. It is not like some men and women get down on earth and all they come from another planet.

[UniquelyBasic]

Yes since we are gods children just know you had sex with a sibling.

[zagor]

I don't think you can project too much from allegories.

[purplepoppy]

You also share 60% of your dna with bananas

[Gibbons44]

It does not. You'rehoghly likely transgender

[douride2]

It would appear so if you believe.

[TheMajesticKing777]

Yea I'd assume so

[JoyGirl]

Yap..

[Anonymous]

yup 100%