Christians: Do you consider incest to be prohibited by God??

Question

It is not covered in the 10 Commandments, but it is in the 613 Laws of Moses. However, Christians don't follow the Law of Moses.
If you reply that you follow only the moral Laws of Moses, where in the NT did it say that allthough the "old covenant"(and thus the Laws of Moses) is obsolete we still must keep the moral Laws of Moses(as Christians)??

the chosen one, thank you for understanding my question. I really didn't think so many people would think I was thinking about commiting incest. The purpose of my question was to have Christians crystalize their stand on the Laws of Moses. If they want to say that Jesus did not make the Laws obsolete then they should be eating kosher and observing the Sabath and they should disregard everything the Apostle Paul wrote.

Answer 1

Yes it was. It was not in the beginning because God knew it wasn't harmful to the DNA. But as time went on, God knew it would hurt the people so He declared it wrong.

Answer 2

Just because we are not bound by the Law of Moses ,doesn't mean we don't use the parts that are good for society.God put it in writing (through Moses) that incest was wrong but it was an unwritten law they followed just as Abraham and Jacob tithed. It was an unwritten law.Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters(Gen. 5) so at first the brothers and sisters would have to mate .In no time,the lines began to fade.By the time of the flood ,there werte millions of people on earth.No one knew who any one was except their close kinsmen.Once the gene pool was sufficintly weakened ,then God said enough was enough.Even Abraham married his 1/2 sister(pre-law).
So just because we aren't bound by the law ,we "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Answer 3

the process of becoming a moral people involves progressing from a state of utter dependence on the laws and rules set forth for us in the past, to internalizing and accepting right bahavior. Morality is not just obeying a set of seemingly arbitrary, contradictory and opressive rules that were laid down thousands of years ago in a different culture, a different time and a different place to guard against different problems. It is doing the right things on our own without being told to, regulated or coerced. It is to develop an ethical sense within ourselves, to feel the needs of the world around us.
Differing situations call for a more flexible response than the laws of leviticus, or any other man written laws, can give us. That is why the rules Jesus gave us, To love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, supercedes not only the laws of the old testament - but all laws. We must still, however, obey the fine points of the law - not parking on even sides of the street after a blizzard, for example, because our ethical sense is not telepathic, and we can't behave properly in a society without finding out what society wants us to do. It's just important to remember that our internal ethical sense must take precedence - if a child is lost in the snow, it's ok to park quickly on the even side, in spite of the rule against it, to rescue the kid.

Answer 4

The proper answer to your "question" would take far more space than is permitted in YA... you have a fundamental misunderstanding of The True Christian Faith. True Christians do not consider "The Law" to be obsolete... Christ was, is, and always shall be, The Law...

The prohibition against incest is binding on all of The True Christian Faith.

Answer 5

If Christians want to admit it or not we are still under the law of the God Yahweh in the Old Testament when it comes to incest, murder, rape and kidnapping just to name a few. And so are the laws of The United States Government.

Answer 6

Christians do have to obey the Law of Moses. Incest is defined as immediate family like Father, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Brother, Son, but not cousins.

Answer 7

I don't consider Incest to be prohibited by God, since he commanded it over and over again. Starting with Eden (who did Adam's children mate with if not each other?), going to Abraham's son Isaac being told to marry only a relative and Abraham's wife Sarah being his half-sister, to the Israelites having to keep their own breeding 'in the family', often marrying cousins and sometimes siblings... it's been rife throughout the Bible. Two daughters being told to get their father drunk and have sex with him to produce offspring is the top of the wedding cake to me... so NOPE. Not prohibited at all.

History speaks...

Answer 8

what do you mean it is not covered in the commandments?
those are the moral laws. Is there not a commandment against purity, like thou shalt not commit audultry? that is sex with someone elses spouce, also sex without marriage is a sin, having sex with your children, is a sin, why do we think God has to spell out everything word for word before we understand, that impurity is impurity and is wrong and sinful.

Answer 9

Incest is prohibited by all that I feel is right, and that's all I need. If God disagrees with me, he can let me know when I get there...though, I'm relatively sure He'd prefer people use their God-given intelligence to avoid the impending birth defects.

Answer 10

Incest on any moral grounds, is worse than murder or any other major crime. You do not need religious law or doctrine to know that is just plain wrong period. It is totally disgusting and without merit, justification or any other sense of acceptability.