2007-01-27 07:26:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a rather disturbing thought isn't it? Sometime tried to explain to me once how it wasn't incest but I really didn't buy the explanation. I'll just stick with evolution, thank you.
2007-01-27 07:56:28 · answer #1 · answered by maryanndertal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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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2007-01-27 16:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a) The Bible doesn't say.
b) It can't be incest until incest is defined, which it wasn't.
c) Earlier creation accounts cf. Babylonian Genesis and so forth posit othe people.
d) There is nothing in Gen. 1 or 2 to suggest there were not other people/civilizatons around.
2007-01-27 15:34:51 · answer #3 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace!
The stories in Genesis 1-11 are Near-Eastern myths picked up by Jewish writers after the exile. They are parables meant to teach theological truths. As mentioned by one of your answerers, there may have been other civilizations in the area. Thus the story of Adam and Eve is meant to explain a general fall from God.
2007-01-27 16:14:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in evolution not the whole Adam and Eve bit. But If I did the kids of Adam and Eve would have to have had incestuous relationships which raise the question to all you believers out their why are we not deformed from all the inbreeding??
2007-01-27 15:46:03 · answer #5 · answered by sarah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From whom or what do you think their descendants sprang--trees? Of course they practiced incestious relationships to propagate the race of mankind!
It was no big deal then and shouldn't be a big concern now because of the hundreds of thousands of lineages that came.
There were no other children besides those of Adam and Eve and the posterity that followed.
2007-01-27 15:35:24 · answer #6 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In logic yes. But there enver was an adam and an eve they are all a bunch of bull.
2007-01-28 21:15:21 · answer #7 · answered by Dylan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book is just a metaphor for those who want to meditate on others concepts of the gods and the kings that ruled the earth. It is just book that reveals how similar we all are and how we are related each and everyone to god.
2007-01-27 16:30:35 · answer #8 · answered by Travis James 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By OUR standards, yes, one would classify it as incest. But at the time, there were no laws making the practice taboo.
2007-01-27 15:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah....... so?
There were no laws against incest, and if it was the only way to reproduce, God wont hold it against them since he knows they didn't "chose" to do it really.
2007-01-27 17:12:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋