None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
We should not look down on our first ancestors.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.