Jack Gutknecht Supporter Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

Good question, Glenna! Genesis 5:4 makes it clear that they had multiple sons and daughters:

After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.

--Dr. Georgia Purdom

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Danny Hickman Supporter Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

Is there anyone who believes that God is the Creator of all that lives on the earth, who also believes that there have been people created some way other than what the Bible says? The Bible says that Eve is "the mother of all living" (Genesis 3:20). That settles it for all who believe the Word as it's written. 

So if there's a question of whether Adam and Eve produced daughters, then there's also a question of whether all living can be traced back to those two people. If they didn't have daughters, then they can't be who the Scriptures say they are.

Acts 17:26 says, "And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth..."

No man can produce human offspring without a woman.

Maybe this is a 'gotcha' question. If so, I'm GOT! I don't know a Scripture that specifically states that Eve got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Still, that doesn't erase the "mother of all living" distinction, which infers that she had to give birth to at least one female offspring. Other than that obvious deduction, there would have to be another female who got involved somewhere in the woodpile, at some place and time. From where she could have come is really hard to speculate. In fact, if it can be proven that someone not named in Genesis produced the first female child in this world, it would undermine the whole Bible.

Adam lived 130 years and fathered Seth; then he lived another 800 years and had sons and daughters (see Genesis 5 vss 3 and 4). 

I challenge anyone to name a wife for Adam other than Eve. If that's too much to expect, then maybe someone can name a concubine he had... none exist in the Scriptures. Don't forget! "He made from one man every nation..." So Adam had to impregnate someone not named in Scripture, someone other than the only wife we're told that he had, the woman the Bible calls "the mother of all living," Eve, or he and Eve did produce at least one female offspring. There are no other logical options.

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