If incest is wrong, as the Church says, then where did all of these people come from? Remember, God ONLY breathed life into Adam, his only begotten son, and then created Eve, who bore Caine, and Able. So where did all of these people come from? The Bible says that it all started with Adam and Eve, and makes no mention of God creating any others. Any answers?
2006-07-21 05:09:40 · 10 answers · asked by Darqblade 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been asking this question for years and no one has come up with an answer that makes sense.
2006-07-21 05:30:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, obviously there has been much incest in the world, and there is much now.
(In fact, a study a few years ago in inner-city areas in England showed incestual births of as much as 20 percent of babies born.).
Morality is not always arbitrarily "right" or "wrong", but often is for a very logical reason.
Incest is a bad idea because of basic genetics. People found out long ago that their babies could have severe birth defects from incest, so that's why it's a bad idea, and that probably worked its way into the moral code long ago for that reason.
It's a bit tough to say "how could it happen if God said it's wrong", given the fact that things happen all the time that God doesn't like, and apparently he allows it.
There are better topics to bring up to question the bible, or Gods inconsistent judgement, like the fact that David had Bathsheeba's husband killed so he could have her, yet the bible says that David "is a man after Gods own heart".
Or the fact that Solomon was called the wisest man ever, yet he had over 700 wives. Doesn't sound too wise to me!
Or the fact that the bible does not say not to be polygamists, and even the Jews still were as late as the 9th century, yet we all "pretend" the bible is against polygamy.
The only thing about it at all in the negative, is that it tells deacons to be the husband of one wife, but hey, that's just for deacons! Not the rest of us!
These are questions nobody seems to bring up.
2006-07-21 05:19:04 · answer #2 · answered by dork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad decisions lead to sin...sinning leads to more sin..they shoud not have taken an aplle from that one forbidden tree...and they should have asked God to make them more company...that is what you get when you start to play God! Adam and Eve were embarrashed...I also would like to know how they handled the aftermath resulted by their wrong choice!
If the many children of Adam and Eve committed incest...we do not know it...even if they did...it does not mean that God likes it.
(No wonder we have so much illness around...It is known that the children of relatives can have serious problems...)
2006-07-21 05:24:11 · answer #3 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first marital unions were incestuous by necessity. As more people were born into the earth, it became unnecessary. Later on, as it became obvious that incest caused birth defects and so on, a taboo against it became part of the customs of many tribal peoples. When Moses came, God gave it as part of His Law.
If the taboo against incest came from Moses, it may have been because he was originally part of the Egyption royal family, where incest was the rule (to preserve the royal bloodline), and he could see the bad results of it. Even among nonroyals, a wife was referred to as "my sister", even when she was not.
When God said He would not put the diseases of the Egyptians on His people, He surely meant genetic ones as well.
2006-07-21 05:30:24 · answer #4 · answered by freelancenut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The prohibition against incest was not put into place till after the Flood, when the increased raditaion from the sun caused genetic mutations and increased the probability of mutated children, especially from inbreeding.
All of the Biblical edicts against certain things were because of the inherent diseases which could be caused by doing those things.
2006-07-21 05:16:54 · answer #5 · answered by wildmlwilson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no logical error. The creators of the bible purposefully left that in the verses so people could logically conclude that the bible is for reading purposes only, not to base your life decisions around it. You know, any intelligent person who reads that would react like you...whoaaa....there is something wrong here.
2006-07-21 05:13:58 · answer #6 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Lot having sex with his 2 daughters?
2006-07-21 05:14:08 · answer #7 · answered by Kutekymmee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible does not condemn incest.
Where did you come up with that idea?
2006-07-21 05:18:11 · answer #8 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A contradiction??? In the BIBLE???? Who ever HEARD of such a thing!!!
2006-07-21 05:13:39 · answer #9 · answered by pceej 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Again, your hypocritical bible...there is no answer, it is wrong and the bible is wrong.
2006-07-21 05:13:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋