Genesis and Incest

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FuzzyBunny116 said:
How is Adam and Eve’s reproduction not incestious?
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It is. So what?

So was Seth’s & his wife’s, from whom we all descend… So what?

So was Abraham and Sarah, who had the same father. Again, so what?

So was Lot and his Daughter’s (from whose line King David & Jesus descend). By this time, though, they knew that was wrong.

There’s lots of incest in the Bible, though it’s never presented as a good thing.

Was there a point to your question?
 
God created a family in the garden of Eden; man and wife. He did not create brother and sister.
 
Timidity said:
It is. So what?

So was Seth’s & his wife’s, from whom we all descend… So what?

So was Abraham and Sarah, who had the same father. Again, so what?

So was Lot and his Daughter’s (from whose line King David & Jesus descend). By this time, though, they knew that was wrong.

There’s lots of incest in the Bible, though it’s never presented as a good thing.

Was there a point to your question?
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Isn’t incest a sin?
 
It is my opinion that sometimes something needs to be done for the greater good. In the case of Adam and Eve, it was necessary for propagation of the species. When there was a sufficient number of people, incest became forbidden. When Noah and his family started to repopulate the earth, incest again was necessary, but afterwards it was forbidden. Sometimes evil is allowed. The plagues of Egypt led to the Hebrew people’s leaving. Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross led to our salvation.
 
Providing one believes that God created Adam & Eve first, incest would have to occur with their offspring! Wouldn’t there have been genetic problems, with this?:confused:
 
Jaguar said:
Providing one believes that God created Adam & Eve first, incest would have to occur with their offspring! Wouldn’t there have been genetic problems, with this?:confused:
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I’m sorry, it was poorly phrased. I mean with Adam and Even and their children, taken from a literal perspective.
 
i’m told that the genetic problems with incest only happen if there’s already the bad genes in the family. I don’t think that in Adam and Eve’s case that was possible, seeing as they were the first people and that their genes hadn’t yet had time to be miscopied by their ribosomes. But I could be totally off.
 
You know it’s funny, as young adult, I had always wondered about this. I guess I still do. I think that’s one of the reasons, I’ve always sided with evolution.
 
FuzzyBunny116 said:
Isn’t incest a sin?
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The Law has always had general and specif cases. For instance there’s the general “do not kill” followed by a whole list specific cases of things that people should be killed for. One never sins by obeying God.

God commanded Adam & Eve to “go forth and multiply”. It would have been a sin for them and their offspring to disobey. At some point before Lot and his daughters–we’re never told when–God apparently gives the law forbidding incest.

So, yes, for you and me incest is a sin. And so it was for Lot’s daughters. It wasn’t for Adam & Eve, nor for those until the Law had been given.
 
Nevarlander said:
i’m told that the genetic problems with incest only happen if there’s already the bad genes in the family. I don’t think that in Adam and Eve’s case that was possible, seeing as they were the first people and that their genes hadn’t yet had time to be miscopied by their ribosomes. But I could be totally off.
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Look at Adam’s life span, and then look at the life spans of the generations after him–they decline in every generation. Genetic problems, perhaps?
 
Jaguar said:
Providing one believes that God created Adam & Eve first, incest would have to occur with their offspring! Wouldn’t there have been genetic problems, with this?:confused:
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Yes. That’s probably why we’re like this.
 
Timidity said:
The Law has always had general and specif cases. For instance there’s the general “do not kill” followed by a whole list specific cases of things that people should be killed for. One never sins by obeying God.

God commanded Adam & Eve to “go forth and multiply”. It would have been a sin for them and their offspring to disobey. At some point before Lot and his daughters–we’re never told when–God apparently gives the law forbidding incest.

So, yes, for you and me incest is a sin. And so it was for Lot’s daughters. It wasn’t for Adam & Eve, nor for those until the Law had been given.
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I was under the understanding that all sin is a sin from the beginning, and doesn’t “become” a sin at any point?
 
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