Has God always been against inbreeding?

[PiousTemplar]

It is pretty clear that the Church is dead set against inbreeding. How can we explain then, how Adam and Eve created humanity, without being involved in inbreeding? Surely their grand-children would of married, started their own familes, etc?

Please excuse me if this comes across offensive, I did not intend it so.

 

[Aelred_Minor]

There are other possibilities besides incest. One easy one that avoids controversial scientific matters would be if God created wives for Cain, Seth, etc. from their sides like He created Eve for Adam.

 

[Bezant]

It is pretty clear that the Church is dead set against inbreeding. How can we explain then, how Adam and Eve created humanity, without being involved in inbreeding? Surely their grand-children would of married, started their own familes, etc?

Please excuse me if this comes across offensive, I did not intend it so.

I know you have different opinions on the matter, but I don’t think there was a case of inbreeding with Adam and Eve, because I think of it only as a story.

Furthermore, the Church is dead set against inbreeding only as far as (half)siblings, (grand)parents-(grand)children, uncle-aunt/neice-nephew relationships are concerned; first cousin marriages are impeded, but can be allowed with a dispensation.

At the same time it makes for an interesting question, because Abraham married Sarah (his neice), but it was abhorrent that Lot slept with his daughters.

 

[laircy]

Adam and Eve (symbolically speaking) lived before God made the laws against inbreeding.

 

[Bezant]

Adam and Eve (symbolically speaking) lived before God made the laws against inbreeding.

That’s true, although I think, because of Abraham’s case, even if inbreeding wasn’t explicitly forbidden, God was always against it.

 

[DianaCC]

Adam and Eve (symbolically speaking) lived before God made the laws against inbreeding.

Incest was not ruled out until Leviticus 18. Cain married his sister, and the rest is history.

Be careful when you dismiss Genesis 1-3; the Church has pronounced definitively on some aspects of the story.

 

[laircy]

That’s true, although I think, because of Abraham’s case, even if inbreeding wasn’t explicitly forbidden, God was always against it.

Yes.
But, God would have had to allow it in the early days of humanity, unless for some reason instead of him creating “man and woman” it turns into “a bunch of men and a bunch of women.”

Incest was not ruled out until Leviticus 18. Cain married his sister, and the rest is history.

Be careful when you dismiss Genesis 1-3; the Church has pronounced definitively on some aspects of the story.

Not dismissing it at all. I probably used the wrong words there. I meant that whether or not one takes the whole story literally, there were indeed two first humans and so we can call them Adam and Eve.

 

[followingtheway]

Adam and Eve (symbolically speaking) lived before God made the laws against inbreeding.

What he said, the Bible, as soon as the law is established, condemns incest…

[BIBLEDRB]Leviticus 18:6-18[/BIBLEDRB]

 

[LaSainte]

I know you have different opinions on the matter, but I don’t think there was a case of inbreeding with Adam and Eve, because I think of it only as a story.

Furthermore, the Church is dead set against inbreeding only as far as (half)siblings, (grand)parents-(grand)children, uncle-aunt/neice-nephew relationships are concerned; first cousin marriages are impeded, but can be allowed with a dispensation.

At the same time it makes for an interesting question, because Abraham married Sarah (his neice), but it was abhorrent that Lot slept with his daughters.

I’m pretty sure it is dogma that we come from one set of common ancestors…

 

[philial]

It is pretty clear that the Church is dead set against inbreeding. How can we explain then, how Adam and Eve created humanity, without being involved in inbreeding? Surely their grand-children would of married, started their own familes, etc?

Please excuse me if this comes across offensive, I did not intend it so.

You got a bit of a theme going today, eh PT?

 

[PiousTemplar]

You got a bit of a theme going today, eh PT?

I knew someone would catch me out!

I thought of this question first, and then it gave me thoughts of the other one!

 

[philial]