someone please give me an actual explanation to incest in the bible.?

Question

Throughout my Catholic private schooling from pre-K to 12th grade this topic was avoided.

Answer 1

Deuteronomy 27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Answer 2

Naturally the Old Testament is filled with people who do wicked things so there is no point in trying to justify their sin....... However if you possibly refer to Adam and Eve there is an explanation for that.

First, the Genesis account makes no attempt to list every single child they had - for all we know they had 20 sons and 30 daughters. The Bible doesn't mention it, but it was probably the children who were having relations with each other, and although incest is now regarded as immoral, remember that at that time there were no laws. The only law they were ever given was to not eat the fruit from a certain tree. That is why the Old Testament laws were put in effect - God couldn't let the people be lawless for three thousand years until Christ came, he needed to enact laws which could supervise the people until redemption could come. However, priests and such added onto the laws God prescribed and added their own customs and those formed into traditions and eventually those traditions were falsely considered God's law when they were not God's law.

Through Christ we find atonement and are sanctified.

Now, the law is summed up as loving God and loving each other. However, our sense of morality does not come from just the Bible, but instead from the Holy Spirit; that is why the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Counselor, because it leads us away from all wickedness and toward the righteous things.

Answer 3

Maybe you should read the Bible, and you will find a few stories that involve incest. If you went to Catholic School, the subject must have been brought up at one point or the other.

Just to let you know, in the ancient cultures where incest was practiced, it was not wrong to engage in such a conduct. Of course, we are way past those times, and nothing justifies incest. It is illegal, and immoral.

Answer 4

The old testament book of Leviticus explains the subject.
The law is never to sleep with a family member.
Leaving absolutely nothing to chance, that chapter names
aunts, cousins, mother, sister, just so there is absolutely no confusion on the matter whatsoever.

Incest is condemned in the old testament and the punishment for it is death.
One specific mention of it is in the new testament epistle of Paul to the Corinthians about a man who took his own
father's wife. It was called 'fornication' in the king James
new testament.

Today's "protestant" definition of fornication is stupid,
judgmental, and nonsensical. It never had any thing
to do with non-related, consenting couples.
In the old testament, unmarried people who slept together were told only to do one thing: get married.

Whatever the bible says about these subjects are things
any atheist could tell you.

It really isn't the job of Catholic private schools to say
any thing about it. Catholic and protestant parents
should be aware of it, so as to safeguard their children.

Answer 5

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
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