English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

If we are all descended from Adam and Eve, then that means their children had to have incestuous sex to spawn humanity. Thus, all humans are the result of incest.

How do Xians try to explain this one away? Or are they happy being products of incest?

2007-09-07 12:30:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

14 answers

Incest is biologically wrong because it leads to amplification of genetic defects......"Could explain all the nut cases that are running around in the world !"

2007-09-07 13:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by T B 4 · 2 0

Biblical scholars will tell you that Adam and Eve were created to be the first people OF THE HEBREWS. That does not mean that God never created anyone else.
Cain, for example, went east to the land of Nod and found a wife there, before Adam and Eve began having more children. The bible refers to a group named "Nephilim" as sons of God as well, and apparently very powerful, but who were not descendents of Adam and Eve and who went in for the female descendants of Eve. Some versions of the bible call the Nephilim angels, but they were clearly not of the same line, whoever they were.
That is not to say that, as a small and isolated family, Adam and Eve's children did not have incest, indeed it is clear from the bible that they did. But incest was common and accepted in some historical cultures - ancient Egypt, India, Rome and Greece for examples, and recent scientific studies show that birth defects arising from incest are not as common as people believe, and happen only because of rare detrimental recessive traits.
Adam and Eve could not have had any recessive mutations, so their children would not. I am not condoning incest in TODAY's culture, because it's usually some form of abuse or rape, but I am just saying that incest was not always wrong.

2007-09-08 03:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Adam and Eve were sent down to earth almost 38,000 years ago. The planet was already well populated by then but it was indeed the mission of Adam and Eve to establish the Violet Race and then, after there were 1 million direct-line descendants, go out into the world and mate with the races of men, thereby contributing their superior DNA to the human gene pool. Because of their "sin," they never fully accomplished their mission.

The book Adam and Eve - A Tragic Love Story will answer all your questions about this amazing couple. This is a serious and scholarly work and I highly recommend it. Good luck to you!

http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Eve-Tragic-Love-Story/dp/0741432722/ref=sr_1_2/105-0328501-1611661?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189335923&sr=1-2

2007-09-09 00:07:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Very Good question.
"Incest in the Bible is an interesting issue. In the beginning, incest was not only permissible but necessary. God created only two humans, Adam and Eve, and all other humans are their direct descendants. Thus, at least that first generation after Adam and Eve had to marry their full-blooded brothers or sisters. Once the first generation had reproduced, marriages could take place between brothers and sisters, between cousins, and between uncles/aunts and nieces/nephews.

When the flood occurred, this situation was repeated -- there was one senior couple (Noah and his wife), and there were three couples consisting of Noah's sons and their wives. Again, brothers and sisters probably married, as well as cousins, and uncles/aunts with their nieces/nephews. "

The specific biblical commands against incest do not appear until the time of the Mosaic Law. Prior to that time, these relationships do not appear to have been condemned explicitly. In the Mosaic Law, it is interesting to note that when incest is prohibited, it appears to be prohibited on the basis of unchanging moral principles (some of the commands contain such qualifications as "it is your father's nakedness" [cf. Gen. 9:22ff.]).

This leaves us with an ambiguous view toward incest in the Bible. At some point prior to the Mosaic Law, it was implicitly commanded by God (e.g. Gen. 1:28), and therefore could not have been sinful. In the Mosaic Law, however, it takes on a sinful moral quality. As we seek to reconcile these facts, we cannot do violence to either set of historical facts. One option is to interpret the Mosaic Law as forbidding incest not on the basis of unchanging moral principles, but on the basis of changing moral principles (e.g. culturally, socially, religiously, or otherwise conditioned principles).

though the Bible leaves us with many mysteries and unanswered questions, I think it does give us sufficient information about how we are to understand our relationship with him now, and how we are to obey him now. As we apply the Law to our lives today, however, it requires great wisdom for us to know how to do so properly."

2007-09-07 13:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by SMX™ -- Lover Of Hero @};- 5 · 1 0

i will furnish this my ultimate shot with the concentration on the choose for a blood sacrifice. while Adam and Eve disobeyed God interior the backyard of Eden (unique sin), by ability of the Serpent (devil) they succumbed to the two a actual loss of life and a non secular loss of life. It replaced into devil, the serpent that first bridged the divide between religious to the actual, as a result the sin led to the two a non secular and actual loss of life. as a result, with a view to repair this hollow, a divine being could desire to take actual type and this replaced into Jesus Christ. Christ, a divine being in human type, served as this blood sacrifice conquering loss of life and offering those that have faith with eternal existence. the respond to Why did he do it extremely is modern in John 3:sixteen "For God so enjoyed the international that he gave his basically begotten Son". we are God's creation, and that i don't be attentive to approximately you yet you like and look after those issues which you created.

2016-10-18 06:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The gene pool was able to handle inter-family marrying. The reason we don't intermarry is because the genes for certain diseases and physical infirmities arise. However, do not evolutionists face similar issues in explaining how the first sexually reproducing beings were able to reproduce?

2007-09-07 12:41:59 · answer #6 · answered by seminary bum 3 · 2 1

Explain it away? We don't make this stuff up you know, we didn't have any choice. Of course, it does make a lot of sense considering how ignorant we are. Hate to break it to you, you reap the consequences whether you choose to believe or not, you're still inbred. Midocondrial dna tells us so.

2007-09-07 13:05:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Incest wasn't a sin until after the time of Abraham.

Incest is biologically wrong because it leads to amplification of genetic defects.

At the beginning of humanity genetic defects didn't exist so there wouldn't be a problem with inter-marriage.

There is no sense in calling something wrong before God calls it wrong. Afterall, HE created you and me.

2007-09-07 12:43:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 2 4

Maybe thats why humanity is getting more isolent

2007-09-07 12:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by midnitepoets 6 · 0 0

For some strange reason, A&E's children married women from a neighbouring country...

...?...
...
...

... doesn't really make sense, now does it?

2007-09-07 12:38:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

fedest.com, questions and answers