Adam and Eve. How many children did they have?

[Treetotal]

My late father had a theory.

If Adam and Eve were the first and only people alive on Earth and they had 2 sons. Where did the next generation come from 

I will leave you wonderful researchers to make your own minds up 

Dorrie

Dorrie,

My Father asked me the same question when I was small, I didn't have the answer, and neither did he....I thought there were 3 sons though, Cain, Abel & Seth...but like the bible, I can't prove it  I think that's when my doubts kicked in about the bible stories I had heard that didn't add up. He said "Grimm's Fairy Tales" is a good read! 

Carol

[Erato]

I had someone right here on RootsChat connect me back to Noah.  Unfortunately, though, there is an inconvenient illegitimate birth in my tree in 1885 and, although I think I know who the parents were, I can't be certain so the chain is broken at that point.  It would have been nice to trace back to the first wildlife management scientist but, so it goes.

[dowdstree]

Ooops Carol I forgot about Seth - silly me

Like all stories it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Loved Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Water Babies.

Dorrie

[Treetotal]

Me too, My Mother was a lapsed Roman Catholic and my Father was an Agnostic, It took me years to pluck up the courage to admit I was a non-believer. My Father later would say that Religion was the cause of all wars.
Carol

[BumbleB]

Me too, My Mother was a lapsed Roman Catholic and my Father was an Agnostic, It took me years to pluck up the courage to admit I was a non-believer. My Father later would say that Religion was the cause of all wars.
Carol

I used to attend Sunday School and C of E services during my teen years, and then I thought - Religion is the most evil invention of man - divide and rule.    I haven't found anything to change that impression, made in the 1950's, so I didn't marry in church nor was my daughter christened. 

[Maiden Stone]

There is (or at least was) a tree with my grandpa on it that went back to God, via Jesus and had Adam and Eve on it. 
 I had to keep looking at it even though I felt guilty. 

I was the same about one which allegedly meant I was so many (can't remember how many) degrees connected to the present Queen. Some old royal genealogies show descent from Adam. Didn't take me long to spot an error, a case of mistaken identity, 200 years ago.

[Erato]

"to admit I was a non-believer"

I was born an atheist and have never changed despite a tree chock full of clergymen and missionaries.

[Viktoria]

Ooops Carol I forgot about Seth - silly me

Like all stories it has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Loved Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Water Babies.

Dorrie

Pinch of salt ,could that be a bit from the pillar of salt Lot’s wife ,thingummy was turned unto for  looking back at Sodom?
Viktoria.

[BumbleB]

I had a family member who went to Africa in the 1820's as a Missionary - there were many others there at the same time - all trying to "convert" African tribes to another religion, because "my lot is better than your lot".

Oops, sorry, diverting the thread