GROSS!!!
2007-01-08 04:23:06 · 24 answers · asked by what the hell is a buckeye? 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the bible it's ok to marry one's cousin.
They just couldn't have relations with their siblings, their parents or their aunt/uncles.
The national geographic did a story on how all men can be traced back to 1 man in africa, and all women can be traces back to 3 women from africa. (DNA). So we are all related, so they say.
2007-01-08 04:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only 8 people survived the flood: Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. Genesis 9:18 states: "From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth".
So to answer your question, it is quite possible that cousins (not necessarily brothers and sisters) intermarried. Today, we may refer to this practice as "incest". However, to do so means we are retroactively applying the law which outlaws what we call "incest" today.
You are applying 2007 standards to a time where God's law had not yet been given to men. Moses received the law (the 10 Commandments) from God many generations later. Up until that time, our concept of "incest" did not exist.
2007-01-08 04:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by God Still Speaks Through His Word! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buckeye, judging from your many silly questions you've obviously got nothing better to do. But let me answer this one. by the way you seem to be obsessed with incest, aren't you. This is the second question on the topic.
Now, no it was NOT incest. How could it be? Noah only had sons. They reproduced because the sons were married.
2007-01-08 04:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Incest were prohibited after the 10 commandments given by God to moses before that, it was not a sin, because there was no laws written down until God gave laws and principles. Read Leviticus.
2007-01-08 04:29:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take the story literally, Noah's children were adults and married at the time, so it wasn't incest.
There are plenty of other reasons to doubt the veracity of this story in its literal form. Jabs about incest come off as a bit weak.
2007-01-08 04:26:58 · answer #5 · answered by Zafrod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eight people were saved. Noah, his 3 sons, and their wives. Presumably, in the next generation, first cousins married. After that, the divergence continued.
2007-01-08 05:37:59 · answer #6 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until God gave Moses the law (The 1st 5 books of the Bible, Jewish Torah), people were marrying their sisters, half sisters, 1st cousins ect.. That was approximately 1500 years after the flood.
2007-01-08 04:34:08 · answer #7 · answered by chris4him 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a myth. Taken from a story passed down thousands of years ago in what is now called Iraq. The bible is full of stories that happened in other cultures in other times.
2007-01-08 04:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah's sons and their wives were spared, they were already married. However, those kids evidently had to procreate. What do you think about Adam and Eve, they had kids and who did they have kids with? Each other! Got to start somewhere.
2007-01-08 04:27:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a fable based on a much older character Upnapishtim found in the epic tale of Gilgamesh.
2007-01-08 04:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋