Does "God" approve of Incest?

Question

If we're all descendents of "Adam and Eve", there had to have been incest right from the start. What are your thoughts? I'm just curious.

Answer 1

Here's your answer - there is no answer. That's because it's a myth written by someone not intelligent enough to even think it through as much as you have. He was some unbathed stinky guy in a tent surrounded by goats, trying to explain the origin of things he could not comprehend - kinda like "How the Tiger Got His Stripes" and stories like that. Read that one - he ran in circles around a tree and spilled butter on himself, that's where the stripes came from. Just as intelligent as the Bible!

But if you're into it, tell me all about it! haha

Answer 2

Well, first you have to give credence to the Adam and Eve myth. If you do, then your question is a wower, and one that no Christian would want to contemplate - let alone try to answer. Better to ask if breeding with a clone is incest, for if Eve was made from Adam's rib - as the story tells - then Adam was the greatest narcissist of all creation! He loved himself (although the female version thereof). What a conundrum, eh?

And that begs the reach of God's power, doesn't it? If He could create Adam from the dust of the Earth, why not make Eve of something different? Makes you wonder at the limitations of who people think is God, doesn't it?

So your question, in light of my own observations herein, should really make some people uncomfortable. I may not have provided an 'answer' that you were looking for, but by raising such alternative questions, I have hopefully shown the entire fallacy of Adam and Eve, as well as how great the God that created them was.

To be sure, I could go on, but really, what's the point? You know?

Answer 3

I take the story of Adam and Eve to be allegorical, so that wouldn't conflict with the idea that incest is a sin.

Assuming that Adam and Eve really existed as the Bible declares, though, I don't think it would be incest anyway, because while Eve came from one of Adam's ribs, it doesn't say anywhere that they were of the same blood. But you're right -- if the story of Adam and Eve were true, that would mean that their sons and daughters would *have* to commit incest to keep the line of humans going.

Interesting question! That adds a few bonus points to the theory of evolution, I think.

Answer 4

Okay, I'll play along.

Let's start with some assumptions. First, there is a God. Second, there has been a world wide disaster and there are only two humans left on earth, a male and female. Third, the survival of human kind is a good thing.

So let's say the only 2 people left on earth start making babies. The only way for their offsprings to reproduce is to have incestuous relations with their siblings or parents. This type of reproduction continues until the human population grows and hopefully becomes gentically diverse enough so that incest can be avoided and differing genetic back grounds can combine to give rise to healthy people. This apparently is possible because there is DNA evidence to show that our entire human population started with a small fishing village of a few dozen people on the coast of Africa.

So the conclusion is that extreme measures may be necessary to allow a species to continue, and just because those extreme measures were necessary does not mean that those extreme measures are either optimal or preferred by either science or God.

Answer 5

I see what you are getting at, but actually, remember the flood, with Noah and his family, being the only survivors. I think we are actually his descendants. Adam and Eve were the first, and along came Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel and was banished and marked for all to see. All? Why sure, after Adam and Eve sinned, and the wages of sin was death, God had to make other humans so that we could be fruitful and multiply. Incest has always been wrong to God. When Cain traveled to other lands, who did he hide from? Brothers and sisters? No, they were others that God had put here after the first sin. Incest? No.

Answer 6

You Nailed It On The Head Royalty Is Incest Have You Herd Of Isis And Osiris Brother & Sister Having Horus The All Seeing Eye
We Are All Jews We Are All Alike Alls Vain So Here We Remain

Answer 7

Incest is between father/daughter sister/brother mother/son uncle/neice aunt /nephew Adam and Eve were not born under the law which in actuality came from Moses..there was no incest laws until that point and this law does not pertain to distant realtion but close relation.

Answer 8

In the beginning the worlds population was too small to try to find people you were not related to, but as the world grew and travel became easier as well as communication. So incest became unnecessary and eventually unacceptable. With all of the options we have in the world now God obviously took the time to make someone for everyone without incest.

Answer 9

Well Tina H, If you read Leviticus 18 you will see clearly what the god of heaven feels in his heart about incest. He does not approve of it . As Daniel Webster defined it. It is a crime against divine order. Yes there are accounts of things that did happen on the earth within the last 6,000 years that man(male and female) has been alive but such things happened for a reason. Our creator intended for his highest creation to be fruit full and multiply and fill the earth. In this you have marriages, children who grow up and get married and this goes on but because of the fall of man and the fatal flaw that man has which has divided man within himself you have perversions and you can even see it in some of the answers you have received. After the children of Adam and his wife married and had children you had 2 different classes of peoples filling the earth at that time. There were the sons of Seth(who replace his murdered brother Able) and the sons of Cain(who murdered his brother Able) The sons of Seth kept themselves clean and pure while the sons of Cain were engaged in wicked living. They committed incest to the utmost. So Tina this is what I have for you. There are many things in the bible that are obscured, not included but it is evident in ones own conscience that you do not do the things written about in Leviticus 19. You have to go against your conscience to do such things.
I hope this helps, Ammoconfidential

Answer 10

Incest was allowed between brothers and sisters at the time of Adam and Eve. It was necessary at that time to procreate. Later it was forbidden. It is God who defines what is right and what is wrong.

Answer 11

i know what you mean...i know what youre curious about...so dont mind if someone says youre asking stupid question...

yeah, you actually have a point, but then you see, now the population has grown tremendously...billions and billions, and so incest is not allowed, i mean theres so many choices out there...if you flash back to Adam and Eve's time, they dont have anyone else..so thats the thing...

therefore, i think God doesnt approve incest to happen in this world...:-)