2006-09-13 14:56:49 · 12 answers · asked by galactic catholic 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Incest was legal back then..
It is written..
:-)
2006-09-13 15:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by Andreba 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You should know by now that there is no logic in the Bible...lol. I'll give it a go though.
Allow me to speculate:
In those times people lived 900 or more years. There was also alot of inbreeding going on-Mother and Sons, Fathers and Daughters, Brothers and Sisters etc.... So you can imagine how two people can produce literally thousands of offspring in a few centuries.
So by the time Cain killed Able, there were already other communities. He moved there:)
His wife/sister/cousin/aunt/whateva must've been really desperate to take him in with that mark on his forehead and all...lol
2006-09-13 15:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on who you ask. Some people say that God created other people after he made Adam and Even (this, however, is never specified in the bible). Others believe that after Adam and Eve had Cain, Abel and Seth, they had many other children too, as they lived very long lives (this is not specified in the bible either). So really, who knows?
2006-09-13 15:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by silverwingedseraph 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve had at least nine children. Five boys and five girls. When reading Genesis, we see that there was Cain, Abel, Seth, Cain's wife, Seth's wife, and the Bible says that Adam had other sons and daughters, the words "sons" and "daughters" being plural. That means that Adam and Eve had nine children for sure - five being sons, and four being daughters. That we know for certain because of the way it is written in Genesis. That means that Cain and his wife were brother and sister. The reason God did not ban incest at the time is because God only created one man and one woman, so God understood that there was no one else to reproduce with. God commanded Adam to produce and multipy and spread throughout the eart, so they had no choice but to commit incest in order to carry that command out. But then again, every human being commits incest because every human being descends from Adam and Eve. That is why Leviticus 18 or 19 commands us not to have sex with a close relative. Every human being is a relative by blood, but only a few are close relatives. For example, Roger Clinton and Chelsey Clinton are close relatives, so they cannot have sex with each other. Chelsey Clinton and George Bush are relatives because they are both human, but they are so far apart in relation that they are allowed to have sex. (Again, that was only an example to show you what I mean). By the way, to answer two other answers to this question, the Bible is fact, not fiction, and, God is not in to incest. He is in to procreation to spread His image throughout as much of an area as possible. Because we are commanded not to commit incest, that means that God hates incest. When we use the word incest, we mean close relatives. That means that, if you find a cousin who is fifty generations removed, you can have sex, but you cannot have sex with your third cousin. Three generations is too close. Fifty generations is far enough to say that you are not close in relation. And once again, I remind everyone that every human being in existence is related by blood because every human being in existence descends from Adam and Eve. I am now able to emphasize that God created Adam and Eve, NOT Adam and Steve! And one other thing, there were no countries at that time. It was after the flood with Noah that countries came in to existence. Read Genesis chapters one through ten.
2006-09-13 15:27:17 · answer #4 · answered by thegreatone 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
...by this time there could have been as many as 25,000 people.. the tabu on incest came later, as the dna was not yet stagnated or whatever it does with close relations.. Cain was given a mark on his forehead (a prominant brow) a mark that kept him safe from other's taking vengence upon him.. this is a clue to the final outcome of this unavoidable journey through imperfection..
2006-09-13 15:09:26 · answer #5 · answered by flowerchilde 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Exactly.
Just as I have always said, Christians are just plain contradictory.
It kinda goes hand-in-hand with the whole "Thou shalt not kill"-but it's okay to execute anyone that does not abide by the Bible's contexts mentality that most so-called Christians have.
I swear, I will never understand these people.
2006-09-13 15:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by Lauren C.: Led-head 4 (∞) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Book of Jubilees" that was rejected for inclusion in the Bible says he married one of his sisters. He went to the land of Nod, wherever that may be, so it sounds as if he found a stranger. It sounds as if other people besides Adam and family existed. If one seeks consistency in the Bible, he is on a futile quest. It has many contradictions, for it wasn't written by the most educated men. I took Bible History in college and learned about many contradictions. A book Billy Graham gave me lists many contradictions and glibly tries to explain them. I stumble upon other contradictions without trying to find them.
2006-09-13 16:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve were the first humans created by God, but the Bible mentions that others were created in other places.
2006-09-13 15:02:55 · answer #8 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God must approve of inbreeding, seeing as how all us humans descended from one mating pair....
2006-09-13 15:03:08 · answer #9 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gotcha! There goes the loophole.....a lot of it in the bible.
2006-09-13 15:25:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've asked about that and was told it was a sister.
2006-09-13 14:59:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋