Adam and Eve are the first human beings, meaning their children had to have incest to reproduce the rest of the human family. Right? But incest is universally held as immoral, how can God justify it then and make it immoral now?
2007-07-01 09:36:04 · 11 answers · asked by cupmaryland 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
just another one of those biblical inconsistencies that christians looove to overlook!
2007-07-01 09:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is one thing I can't stand about the creationist view. To Christians who hold to this view that is what they say. They had incest and that's how the human race was populated. But evolution coincides beautifully with Genesis and would explain where Cain's wife came from and who were the people Cain was afraid would kill him if they found him. Good question.
2007-07-01 16:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's one of the question I asked when I was still a teenager. My agnostic mind, full of doubts was very badly seen by people around me.
Bible inconsistencies are hundreds or more.
I refuse to believe that God first like and permits something then later dislikes and forbids the same thing. Human can be like that. A doubtful God, uncertain God, how will that God teach stability in faith, in life!
2007-07-01 17:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by Matt7 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you heard of "genetic sexual attraction", in which adults who are closely related but never knew one another as children fall in love? Dr. Maurice Greenberg, a psychiatrist, differentiates it from incest, saying, "There is no force, coercion, usually no betrayal of trust. And no victim. If sex occurs, it involves consenting adults."
Given the longevity of Adam and Eve, it is entirely possibly that some of their children did not grow up together, and indeed, never even met one another as children.
2007-07-01 17:04:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but some in the science community say the very human Sapiens had sex with the very animal Neaderthal.
That's the Clan of the Cavebear view. You like that one. Want to teach that one to 5th graders in school. It does come from science.
How come non-believers and pro-science and evolutionists get squeemish and respressive when science makes some icky conclusions like this. Or do you believe in exposing your 10 year olds to these PUBLISHED concepts of science.
2007-07-01 16:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That could be it. They marry sibling or a close relative. Or they could have asked God to make more people. People lived long long time at that time.
Pay attention to that God created "the mankind".
2007-07-01 16:39:55 · answer #6 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider then that the genetics were more pure, so that wouldn't have been a problem. A lot of God's laws are to protect us as we are now, and this is one.
2007-07-01 16:42:52 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was the only way to populate the world.
2007-07-01 16:51:41 · answer #8 · answered by Jassierra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's been covered.
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AuVdSBS.tKEAJJo.H986I4jd7BR.?p=Adam+and+Eve+incest
2007-07-01 16:53:28 · answer #9 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*DRINK*
and I recently saw a post by a Christan that said 'at that time there were no genetic dangers of inbreeding so it was OK'...
2007-07-01 17:34:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋