Does God approve of Incest, since Adam and Eve's children could not have kids without commiting incest?
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I'm not really a religious person but this thought has crossed my mind as well.  If the bible is true it is stating we are all related.  I don't think incest would have been a thought in God's mind.  Incest is a term used by society and all objections people have to it were created by society.
1103426
If it's the only option, God allows it. . \n\nIf you read the part about Sodom and Gomorra in the bible (around Genesis, I think), Lot and his family left that sinful city. \n\nHis daughters thought that all of mankind was destroyed, so they got their father drunk and each one slept with them, in order to keep the human race going. God forgave them for that, because they did this thinking it was the only hope. So I'm sure He definitely didn't have a problem with Adam and Eve
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Ooh, nice question.\n\nActually, I think you could make a strong case that they didn't have sex until after they left Eden. There's no mention of it, and I know they had no children when they left. \n\nIt was eating the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that made them realize they were naked; is it possible they were having sex prior to this, yet failing to notice this one detail? Which they then figured out from eating a piece of fruit? \n\nI could almost imagine them just not bothering to contemplate the fact that they had different genitals because the subject never "came up", as it were. But the whole Fig Leaf story just sounds absurd if they were copulating the whole time.\n\nAfter the Fall, of course, it wouldn't really matter if they sinned or not, having already been declared sinners.\n\nOn the other hand, if they weren't having sex prior to the Fall, and one assumes that God intended, or at least hoped, that they would not disobey Him and remain in Paradise forever, one has to wonder why He would give them genitals at all. I mean, seriously, what's the point? \n\nAgain, good question.
1092815
The Bible does not say if Adam and Eve were forgiven of their sin. In the book of Hebrews chapter 11 a list of people of faith are given. Adam and eve are not in that list but their son Abel is.
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Where did Cain get his wife? Adam “became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain took one of his sisters or perhaps one of his nieces as a wife. Later, God’s Law to the Israelites did not permit the marriage of a fleshly brother and sister.—Leviticus 18:9.\n\nOne might think that after the murder of Abel, only his guilty brother Cain and their parents, Adam and Eve, were left on the earth. However, Adam and Eve had a large family. According to Genesis 5:3, 4, Adam had a son named Seth. The account adds: “The days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” So Cain married his sister or perhaps one of his nieces. Since mankind was then so close to human perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the health risks that may imperil the offspring of such a union today.\n\nAdam was cast out of Eden into an unsubdued earth that was cursed to produce thorns and thistles, there to sweat out an existence, harvesting the bitter fruits of his sin. Outside the garden, awaiting death, Adam fathered sons and daughters, the names of only three being preserved—Cain, Abel, and Seth. To all of his children Adam passed on hereditary sin and death, since he himself was sinful.—Ge 3:23; 4:1, 2, 25.\n\nConsider, for example, the often-raised problem about Cain’s wife. At Genesis 4:1, 2 we read: “In time [Eve] gave birth to Cain and said: ‘I have produced a man with the aid of Jehovah.’ Later she again gave birth, to his brother Abel.” As is well known, Cain killed Abel; but after that, we read that Cain had a wife and children. (Genesis 4:17) If Adam and Eve had only two sons, where did Cain find his wife?\n\nThe solution lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had more than two children. According to the context, they had a large family. At Genesis 5:3 we read that Adam became father to another son named Seth and then, in the following verse, we read: “He became father to sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:4) So Cain could have married one of his sisters or even one of his nieces. At that early stage of human history, when mankind was so close to perfection, such a marriage evidently did not pose the risks for the children of the union that it would today.\n\n\nThough no word for cousin is found in the Hebrew Scriptures, this relationship is there indicated by expressions such as “the sons of . . . Aaron’s uncle,” “the son of his uncle.” (Le 10:4; 25:49) Marriages to cousins are reported: Jacob and Rachel, and the daughters of Zelophehad. (Ge 28:2; 29:10-12; Nu 36:11) Such marriages to cousins were not included in the Mosaic prohibitions against incest. (Le 18:8-16) Today civil laws are at variance on this matter; some states and nations allow cousins to marry, others forbid it.
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Gay marriage is not acceptable by God.  No, they should not be allowed to adopt children because children learn what they live.  It is unfair to the child to be introduced to that alternate lifestyle, which according to the bible is devoid of God's blessings.  God's calls gay relationships an abomanation.
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1. What happened with Adam and Eve was necessary, but it was a transgression.  If Adam and Eve never would have eaten the forbidden fruit, none of us would be here. They would still remain there in the Garden of Eden in the innocent state that they were in, not knowing good or evil, joy or sorrow, etc.\nAdam and Eve did repent of their transgression, but that really doesn't effect us. God holds each one of us responsible for our own sins, and not for what Adam or Eve did.\n\n2.  Newborns are born pure and innocent.  Until they grow and learn right from wrong they don't have the capacity to commit sin.  But once they are at the age where thy can tell right from wrong, they are accountable for their own sins.
1059779
god created adam and eve\nnot adam and steve
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Adam and Eve were never married; mainly because there were actually seven different Adam's and Eve's.  In the beginning, when "god " was still experimenting with the "design" he wanted to use, they were trying many different genetic combinations, so there were many birth mothers and donors.  A man just "took" a wife to be his.  When tribal chiefs got tired of having other men taking their wives, they came up with a way to declare a women "belonged" to only one man.  No one else could have her until the man she was married to no longer wanted her.  A man, of course, could have as many wives as he could support.
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THEY HAD TO HAVE SEX WITH THEIR CLOSE RELATIVES...WHICH IS NOW CALLED INCEST...BUT....REMEMBER THAT BACK THEN THEY WERE JUST PERFECT...AND AS SOON AS THEY STARTED THE IMPERFECTION....IT TOOK AT LEAST A THOUSAND BEFORE THEIR IMPERFECTION COULD START MAKING DAMAGE TO THEIR OFFSPRING OR CHILDREN LIKE NOW DAYS, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS....OUR CHILDREN BORN DIFFECTED....SO GOD HAD HIS REASON AND HE KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR AT LEAST THE FIRST THOUSAND.
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Of course not! what gave you that idea?!\n \n Romans 1:26-26 "That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of a female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males,working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error." \n\n1 Cor 6:9 "What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men."\n\n God hates fornication and homosexuality and lesbianism.  Anyone who practices those things will not inherit God's Kingdom.
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According to the Bible, yes, Adam and Eve were the original parents of the entire human race.\n\nI like to think that God had a hand in ensuring that their children would not come out genetically flawed. I mean, if God could create the world out of nothing, I'm sure He can make his creations non-flawed for a while. After all, the circumstances sort of required some divine assistance to get His human project off the ground.\n\nThere was also a chapter in Genesis that mentioned that some angels of God came down to earth and took some beautiful women with them and had children with them. That might help explain some of the variety in the bloodlines.\n\nI kind of also think that Adam and Eve weren't the only humans God created. He could have very well created others concurrent or after Adam outside the Garden of Eden. Perhaps He spent more time in creating and developing Adam though. I don't know, it's just a hypothesis.\n\nYou also have to consider the fact that all the other humans aside from Noah and his family died in the great flood. That means that even if the children of Adam were flawed, it would be hard to prove since they all died at that point and stopped having descendants. Hopefully, by the time Noah comes around, there was enough of a variety in the blood mixes that genetic defects were few and diluted among the larger generation. Then the whole repopulating the earth would have to start again, but this time, with Noah and his family. Again, I like to think that God didn't stop creating at that point and helped out Noah and his family by preventing diseases and defects from developing in their inbred descendants.
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Okay...so Adam was a disobient guy missing a rib, would couldn't control his wife, who went on to see his kids commit incest in order to procreate.   What's your point?\n\nOh, yes, and you forgot the fact that he was a liar claiming to be the first man when we all know he is a myth and that humankind is a product of evolution.
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Since Adam and Eve were the first (and only) human beings, their children would have no other choice than to intermarry. God did not forbid inter-family marriage until much later when there was enough people that intermarriage was not necessary (Leviticus 18:6-18). The reason that incest often results in genetic abnormalities in children is that when two people of similar genetics (i.e. a brother and sister) have children – genetic defects are far more likely to result because both parents had the same defects themselves. When people from different families have children – it is highly unlikely that both parents will have the same genetic defects. The human genetic code has become increasingly “polluted” over the centuries as genetic defects are multiplied, amplified, and passed down from generation to generation. Adam and Eve did not have any genetic defects, so that enabled them and the first few generations of their descendants to have a far greater quality of health than we do now. Adam and Eve’s children had few, if any, genetic defects. As a result, it was safe for them to intermarry. It may seem strange or even disgusting to think of Cain's wife being his sister. In the beginning, since God started with one man and one woman, the second generation would have no choice but to intermarry amongst themselves.
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Yes - God cannot sin.
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The bible really doesn't say where all the other women came from so this is a good question.\n\nI once asked a minister where did the women that the children of Adam and Eve married come from.  I was told they married sisters but back then they were still so nearly perfect from the hand of God that it wasn't a problem genetically. That was a good technical answer but it still left me wondering because the bible doesn't mention any other children of Adam and Eve....
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Sounds like you've been watching "Inherit the Wind" one too many times.\n\nThe answer of course is that the Bible is not the complete account of all of Adam and Eve's family.  We know that Adam was the first flesh on the earth, and undoubtedly he had several children, two of which married.  There is nothing too scandelous about this considering that there were not too many choices originally.\n\nThose fanatic born again Bible bashers who claim the Bible is totally complete and contains ALL of God's words forget one thing----The Bible itself never makes this claim.  Whey then should they--unless their belief system is non-Biblical (which it is.)