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13107, RE: Incest: Good or Bad?
Posted by osoclasi, Fri Jun-22-01 08:04 AM
>HTP
>
>My first question is an easy
>one to initiate this Q/A
>session. It's easy because it
>is a popular question often
>asked by curious "young'uns" in
>the church. (In fact Jamal
>on the Showtime series "Soulfood"
>ask this question to the
>preacher but instead of giving
>an answer the preacher sent
>him out the Bible study
>group for being disrespectful.) Also
>I'm sure this is a
>question that many okp's probably
>would like answered too.
>Anyways the question(s) is(are):
>
>Were Adam and Eve the ONLY
>people created by God? If
>so did their children procreate
>with one another?

Responce: Yes, they procreated with one another.
>
>
>The reader is never told with
>whom Adam and Eve's children
>procreate. But later we find
>that Cain has a wife
>(Genesis 4:16). One could speculate
>that the wife was a
>daughter of Adam and Eve
>since the birth record of
>women is rarely(ever?) given, however
>this would imply incest, which
>the Bible states as wrong.

Responce: first there was no command in Cain's day not to marry a close relative. The commandment in Lev 18 came 1000 years later. Since the human race started with Adam and Eve Cain had no one else to marry except a close relative.
>
>
>
>Anyway that's it for this one.
>Simple huh?

Responce: Yes, but still a good question thou.