Is incest ok acording to the Bible? Where does it say that Lot and his daughters would be punnished?

Question

30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let's get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father."
33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father." 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

36 So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab [g] ; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi [h] ; he is the father of the Ammonites of today

Answer 1

According to the bible, it was ok for Eve to breed with her children but eating an apple was cause to kick her out of paradise.

Answer 2

it really is why Islam makes a lot experience! Muslims believe that the tale replaced into all made up through mischievous Jews to discredit their very personal prophets and their enemies (likely after the Babylonian captivity at the same time as the Bible replaced into rewritten from "reminiscence." for this reason, diverse kinds interior the former testomony.) in the different case, why ought to you detect it interior the Bible? What purpose does it serve? what's the moral in the back of this tale? the purely element that it does is that it turns human beings off from faith and they grow to be agnostics or atheists. No good guy can examine the Bible which include his daughters without skipping or embarrassing himself. that's why few human beings do.

Answer 3

look people the world started with 2 people so if incest is outlawed in the bible its wrong since adam and eve didnt make that many kids, not enough to populate the entire world and not have there be incest.

i dont agree with incest but i dont think people can say its against the bible for that reason alone.

Answer 4

Incest was introduced in the Levitical law at the time of Moses. Until then there was no law against it, although I don't think what Lots daughters did to him was right. Lot actually lived about 500 years before the Levitical law came in.

Answer 5

Slavery is fine too, btw :) Even in the NT when I was talking about "servants" - in Greek the word actually means "slave."

I did tell people to treat their slaves nicely, but I didn't come out and say "people shouldn't own each other." And for the record, although it was a practice at the time, there were many religious people who DID have the balls to speak out about slavery. My balls were slightly out of practice.

Answer 6

first of all, lot getting raped by his daughters was just an example of biblical irony. because he had offered his daughters up to be raped, fate eventually circulated back on him and gave this punishment to him at their hands.

second of all, at the time of lot, there was no prohibition against incest, so no laws were broken. it was icky but... legal.

Answer 7

The Bible is VERY unclear on that subject.

Please visit this link for lists of Biblical verses that both condone and condemn incest.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/incest.html

Answer 8

The fact that they sought to get their father intoxicated suggests that they realized he would never have consented to having sexual relations with them in a sober state. But under the circumstances, they felt that this was the only way to prevent the extinction of Lot’s family. They were aliens in the land and there was no one of their kindred with whom they could enter into marriage and thus preserve the family line. It should also be remembered that Lot’s daughters had resided among the morally debased inhabitants of Sodom. In view of these factors, it would not have been difficult for them to justify their course of action in their own minds. Why, then, does the account appear in the Scriptures?

The narrative is not presented in the Bible to stimulate erotic thoughts. It is there for a purpose, revealing the relationship of the Moabites and Ammonites to the descendants of Abraham who became known as Israelites. Lot being a nephew of Abraham, the Israelites were related to the Moabites and Ammonites, who descended from the two sons that Lot produced by means of his daughters. (Gen. 11:27) Later this fleshly relationship came to govern Israel’s actions in dealing with the Moabites and Ammonites. For example, in their taking over the land east of the Jordan River, the Israelites, under divine orders, were careful not to trespass on the landholdings of the Ammonites and Moabites.—Deut. 2:9, 18, 19, 37.

Is any sincere reader of the Bible left in doubt as to the conclusion that is to be drawn from this account concerning Lot and his daughters? Is he made to feel that such conduct is, perhaps, approved by God?

It is true that in Genesis chapter 19 the historical facts are conveyed without any comment respecting God’s approval or disapproval of Lot’s twice committing incest in an intoxicated state. But in later portions of the Bible record, God’s condemnation of drunkenness is clearly stated again and again. (Prov. 20:1; 23:20, 21, 29-35; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10) Likewise, in his Law to Israel, God later made clear his prohibition of incest, saying: “You people must not come near, any man of you, to any close fleshly relative of his to lay bare nakedness. . . . The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you must not lay bare.” (Lev. 18:6, 7) The penalty for violating the law on incest was death. (Lev. 18:29) While Lot and his daughters were not under the Law, they were, nevertheless, aware of the impropriety of having relations with their own father, as shown by the fact that they first got him intoxicated.

Why, then, is Lot called a “righteous man,” at 2 Peter 2:8? Not because God approved of his getting drunk, nor because God approved of incest. God did not approve such conduct. But it should be noted that there is nothing in the record to indicate that Lot was a habitual drunkard, nor was he habitually involved in acts of incest. His reputation was that of a “righteous man,” and this reputation he had with God, who examines the heart. Lot deplored the “lawless deeds” of the people of Sodom. And, evidently, for the Examiner of hearts to view him as righteous, Lot must also have grieved over the wrong conduct in which he himself got involved.

The inclusion of the information about Lot and his daughters in the Scriptural record should really help us to appreciate that the Bible is a book of truth. Even when persons who were known as God’s servants became involved in improper acts, the Bible does not conceal this. However, at all times such things are recounted, not to entertain or to stimulate a desire to indulge in immoral conduct, but to provide a background for understanding other events.

Answer 9

Who did caine and abel have children by?

Answer 10

Incest didn't become against God's law unil Leviticus 18.

Leviticus 18 (KJ21, 21st Century King James Version)
1And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 2"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them: `I am the LORD your God. 3According to the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. 4Ye shall do My judgments and keep Mine ordinances to walk therein; I am the LORD your God. 5Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
6"`None of you shall approach any who is near of kin to him to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. 7The nakedness of thy father or the nakedness of thy mother shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. 9The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 10The nakedness of thy son's daughter or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; for theirs is thine own nakedness. 11The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman. 13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's near kinswoman. 14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother. Thou shalt not approach his wife: she is thine aunt. 15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. 17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness: for they are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness. 18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside the other in her life time.
19"`Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination. 23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24"`Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, 25and the land is defiled. Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither any of your own nation nor any stranger who sojourneth among you 27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled), 28that the land spew not you out also when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls who commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30Therefore shall ye keep Mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.'"

Leviticus 20:12 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)
12'(A)If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

Cross references:

A. Leviticus 20:12 : Lev 18:15