What are biblical guidelines for making love and compassion?

Question

"Sexual intercourse between two persons who are too closely related." (New Collins Dictionary). For example, between father and daughter, son and mother, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, brother and sister, etc. INCEST IN GOD'S BOOK (?) BETWEEN A FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTERS: (a) "That night they (both the daughters of Lot) gave him (their father Lot) wine to drink and the older daughter had INTERCOURSE with him ... "The next day the older daughter said to her sister, I slept with him last night. now let's get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father. So that night they got him drunk and the younger daughter had INTERCOURSE with him ... "In this way both of Lot's daughters became PREGNANT by their father. " GENESIS 19:33-35 (From the "Good News Bible- In Today's English"). In the older Versions, like the King James and the Roman Catholic Versions, "SEXUAL INTERCOURSE" is vaguely described as "COLLECTING THE SEED OF OUR FATHER." INCE

BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON: (b) "While Jacob (Israel) was living in the land, Reuben (his firstborn, his eldest son) had SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE with Bilhah, his father's concubine. GENESIS 35:22. The older Versions of the Bible, use the word, "lay" for SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. INCEST BETWEEN FATHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: (c) "When Judah saw her (Tamar, his daughter-in-law), he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face. "He went over to her at the side of the road and said, "ALL RIGHT, HOW MUCH DO YOU CHARGE?" (He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law) {The words in parenthesis i.e. within brackets from He did not know to daughter-in-law are not in the original Hebrew manuscripts. They are the editors g loss.}

Answer 1

disgusting.

Answer 2

Dear Punter, part of the reason the Bible is considered to be historically accurate is that those who wrote it didn't gloss over the things that the patriarchs did.

Those who committed incest did so BEFORE the law of Moses. Therefore, at the time it was not unusual, and it was acceptable.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Pharoah always married his sister. There are many other societies at the time which were the same way.

So the Bible is not unusual in this regard. The stories reflect the times in which the events took place.

You can tell the Qur'an was written FAR afterwards because it does NOT reflect the times in which the events took place.

Answer 3

Um, you need to differentiate between reporting that something happened and condoning it. See the below-referenced page for a good article explaining incest in the Bible.

Answer 4

thus why i always tell you that the bible is a dangerous book.
just image the soo called holly book.what a mess in it.1500 errors in it.
may Allah.s.w have mercy on us.

Answer 5

You know, this stuff wouldn't cross your mind enough to ask about it if you hadn't engaged in it. You poor sick person, you.

Answer 6

And your point is....?
Monkey see, monkey do?