May 07, 2008 04:39PM GMT
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God created Adam and Eve. They had 2 Sons and 7 daughters. Incest is wrong in the eyes of the Lord, right? Then were did the rest of mankind come from?...?
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raves posted Sep 07, 2008 03:55AM GMT
Answered Undecided
Another fine example of how inconsistent ''god's word'' is, huh...Seems to me that "He" is one hell of a double standard type of guy. I believe there is NO gray area when it comes to morality. Incest is incest and it is morally WRONG, whether it be for procreation to populate the earth or not. If he could create one set of human followers, then he could create many. Period. The bible is just ridiculous stories made up by someone to give man a sense of hope for eternal life. -
raves posted Aug 24, 2008 04:51AM GMT
Answered Was before the laws of God were handed down to Moses
The Bible says that Adam and Eve had three named sons: Cain, Abel, and Seth. Besides that, it says they had other sons and daughters. It doesn't say how many. There is nothing mentioned about incest until the laws of Moses, thousands of years later. -
raves +1 Sep 07, 2008 03:59AM GMTNo. The law about incest was introduced after genetic mutations caused problems for children of close-relation marriages. It shows that God is concerned for our welfare. Why should he make a law before there was a problem and one that would prohibit sexual relations for the whole human family?
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raves +1 Sep 07, 2008 04:15AM GMT (edited)*sigh* Let's say the bible is an actual book of history from that time period. Sex was not intended for pleasure, as we think of it in our times-no. It was solely for the purpose of procreation and to populate the earth. I agree there, IF I actually believed in the situation. As it has been pointed out, Cain and Abel chose women from another village to marry, thus proving that He, indeed, does have our welfare in mind and not negate his own laws. THAT is what I was referring to. We would be pretty stupid to believe that he would do such a thing.
I am agnostic though, so these events are neither here nor there to me. To be brutally honest, does it really matter how in the hell we go there? The point is we are alive, right? So it is. -
raves +1 Sep 07, 2008 04:25AM GMTSorry. I misread your remark to mean you were the Free-will Baptist and I was the backsliding agnostic.
But if the Bible is and actual book of history there were no other villages, just Adam, Eve, Cain and his sisters (until Seth was born), since Seth replaced Abel as the male heir. -
raves posted Aug 24, 2008 04:33AM GMT
Answered None of the above
I asked this to my Father once, and he had a simple yet very good answer...
The Bible says that Adam & Eve were the first people, yes, but it does not say that God stopped with them. Cane & Able also are said to have taken wives from the nearby village. So, they took wives other than their siblings. Therefore, no incest involved. -
raves +1 Jun 09, 2008 03:30PM GMTThis was awhile ago I know, but (don't take me wrong I don't read the bible) I wouldn't call it that. It's just a book containing reasons to why the people do what they do, stories that tell abouthow they should live, and what they beeive to be punishment. I wouldn't really cal lit a horror book...
Answered None of the above
You're forgetting Adam's first wife... You may have heard of her, her name was Lilith.