If the bible is true, then arent we all inbred?

Question

In christianity we all originated from adam and eve, so then that means that we are all brothers and sisters, and that were all inbred from the same two people, wich should mean we should all have some major physical defects, and that the bible indirectly condones incest. So then what are christianities views on incest and inbreeding? How is this possible?

Answer 1

Because of the large amount of children that people were able to have before the flood, that gave a good mix of geneitcs for Ham, Shem, Japeth, and their wives to mix it up again and diversify the gene pool.

Remember, people lived a lot longer in those days, so there was a very wide gene pool. As lives shortened, the width of the gene pool was able to sustain a mix more readily and now we have the genetic issues invovled with inbreeding--but those problems did not take place before.

BTW--wouldn't the same problem happen with evolution?

Answer 2

In ancient societies incest was a way of keeping the tribes alive.
In the Adam & Eve story mankind was small in size so inbreeding was a natural occurance. Inbreeding with physical defects is a genetic defect passed over time and consistant inbreeding. There wou;ld be no reason to inbreed after a population had grown to a certain number. God forbad incest and inbreeding when the population was ??? So as a Christian we are against inbreeding and incest.

Answer 3

First of all, you don't have to believe the Bible is literally true to get meaning out of it. Adam and Eve may just be a story that is intended to express the relationship between humanity and God.

Secondly, I don't think the Bible says that Adam and Eve were the first and only humans, although everyone assumes this. In fact, Genesis contains another story describing the creation of multiple human beings (Genesis 1:26) Adam is created in Genesis 2:7. The real reason for this is that Genesis contains two different Creation stories taken from earlier sources, but I like to think of Adam and Eve as being unique in that the first immortal human beings without sin, and the only human beings in the Garden before they were expelled. After Cain is banished, he finds a wife somewhere, so that also implies there were other human beings around.

According to the Bible, we are in fact all descended from Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve. It doesen't say where he got his wife, but no female children of Adam and Eve are mentioned.

In any case, after the flood, the world was left with Noah, his sons, and their wiives, so that would imply that future marriages would have to start with cousins.

One other interesting point: There are credible scientific theories that every human being alive today does indeed derive from a single common ancestor.

Answer 4

Biblically, incest wasnt a sin until the time of the Law, when there was no more need for it. Then because there was no longer a need, God said not to do it and that would be why there is punishment for it (defects and such) Sarah and Abraham were half brother and sister, Lot fathered children with his daughters. They were not punished for this because God had not yet given the law against it. Its not unlike when you are 2 years old, you can run around naked and no one be offended, but you can't do it when you're 30.

Answer 5

Bible believers will tell you that the rules against incest were created much later, and only since that time did incest cause birth defects. You can't win arguments with people who will believe no matter what.

Answer 6

I've answered this before but again :

GEN 1: 27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Man created here The races 6 day READ HERE!!!!!!
6th day creation MAN all the RACES


GEN1: 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

GEN2:
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.

Adam formed on the 8th day HOW BOUT THAT

8 And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Answer 7

well adam and eve were monkeys and so all the inbreeding caused defects and eventually we ended up as a new species.. human.... lol that solves both the Bible idea and the evolution theory! yay

Answer 8

Modern science says exactly the same thing

"New DNA studies say that all humans descended from an African ancestor who lived only 60,000 years ago"

Amazing isn't it? Check out this website:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic

Science does not condone incest however. Hope this doesn't disappoint you!!!

Answer 9

The religious loonies will argue that "in the time of the patriarchs" the rules were different.

I think that the Bible is talking about clans and tribes rather than actual individuals

Answer 10

Technically speaking this is true. I have often wondered the same thing. But, I'm sure they have some smart *** way of getting out of it like saying that our major defect is "sinning" or "not accepting God into our lives". Go figure....