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.
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