# How many people did God create? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 27, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495 "2001-11-27T13:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![whatever1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@whatever1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatever1)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/41 "2001-11-28T20:11:25Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jcmckaig \* > \*\*Not to pick a fight, but that is a ridiculous statement on several levels. > > 1. The stories were written quite a while back, AFTER they had been passed down generation by generation, so naturally there are going to be some fuzzy details. That is where the word “faith” comes in. You either have it or you don’t. But how do you pick what you are going to have faith in? Do you guess? ---
**Author:** ![whatever1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@whatever1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatever1)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/42 "2001-11-28T20:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jcmckaig \* > Not to pick a fight, but that is a ridiculous statement on several levels. > > 1. The stories were written quite a while back, AFTER they had been passed down generation by generation, so naturally there are going to be some fuzzy details. That is where the word “faith” comes in. You either have it or you don’t. How do you pick what you are going to have faith in? Do you guess what you want to believe? ---
**Author:** ![whatever1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@whatever1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatever1)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/43 "2001-11-28T20:21:38Z")
oops!didn’t mean to post twice ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/44 "2001-11-28T22:03:38Z")
**whatever1** - First off, if you are trying to get into a theological showdown, I am the wrong person to do it with, since there is not much in the bible that I “believe” per se. I would probably agree with you. > [@](#): > > There is incest now and god isn’t stopping that.That doesn’t disprove the idea. There is sin every second, of every hour, of every day. Man has free will to do what he pleases. We are not debating whether incest happened (Which it did, read the story of Noah and his two daughters) but whether there were other people at the time of Adam & Eve. Once again, if you read Genesis, (as a historical document) it clearly states that Cain found a wife in another land. So unless A&E had a baby girl that wasn’t mentioned, and then shipped her off to Nod, we can (once again) safely say that there were other people. > [@](#): > > How do you pick what you are going to have faith in? Do you guess what you want to believe? That is a good question, however it is not relevant to the thread, so I will be brief. If you want more info, start another thread. Imagine the cops telling you that your mother killed a man on the street for no apparent reason. She says she didn’t, they have no proof she did. Who do you believe? You believe who, or what you want to believe. Faith is a complex, yet simple word, and you need to ask someone who HAS faith. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/45 "2001-11-28T22:50:42Z")
More info on Lilith, from a certain columnist known as Cecil Adams: [What’s the story on Lilith, Adam’s “first wife”?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mlilith.html) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/46 "2001-11-28T23:05:37Z")
How could I have been so blind? The article is not from the master itself, but it’s a staff report credited to SDStaff Dex and SDStaff Terey, with an assist from RvkhMccabi ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495/47 "2001-11-28T23:36:23Z")
On the off chance that there was ever any answerable question in the OP, I’m declaring it answered. This thread is closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-did-god-create/95495.md?page=2)