How does the bible explain incest in the beginning?
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Adam and Eve were created perfect in every way. Their children would also, no doubt, be born physically and genetically perfect. Therefore, Cain's wife could be one of his sisters with no problems. Likewise, many of Adam and Eve's children would have inter-married with no problems. \n"None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. " (Leviticus 18:6).\nGod does not condone near-relative marriages. Had God's command to Israel been given to Adam and Eve, and they and their children all obeyed it, mankind would have quickly died out. God, therefore, had to temporarily allow intra-family marriages to increase his earthly family. \n By the time of the flood severe genetic weaknesses had likely set in, making close-kin marriages impractical, so after the flood God reduced the life span of mankind to seventy years. This would prevent another population explosion of the pre-flood magnitude. (Mathematicians have calculated a billion people may have died in the flood.)\nOne might wonder why genetic weaknesses set in. It's obvious Cain didn't care about God's law, else he would not have murdered his brother (Genesis 4:8; Exodus 20:13). If he disobeyed God in this matter, he likely disobeyed God in matters of diet (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14), and ate whatever pleased him.
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It's religion.  It doesn't have to make sense.  It is just a story.  Cain found a wife out of thin air because it fit the storyline better.\n\nRealistically, the story was derived from earlier myths, such as the Sumerian tale of the wooing of Inanna.   So, the Biblical version doesn't make sense because it includes elements from that myth and possibly others without the filler story for the elements.
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We need to remember that laws are set in place to protect us.  We have laws to stop at red lights.  If no one stopped...well you know what happens at times when someone breaks this law.  \n\nOften, when someone runs a red-light, people other then the one running it will pay for it…often with their life.  \n\nGOD's laws are the same.  They are there for our protection.  When we violate God's law, it is called sin.  Sin always cost more then we can afford and it always cost others then the one doing it.  \n\nNow to your question, Incest is wrong because it weakens the gene pool because any weak genes become stronger.  The more "inbreeding that occurs, the more likely major birth defects will result.  This is a result of a small gene pool over a long period of time.  In the beginning, the only gene pool was siblings.  Adam and Eve and many more children then are mentioned in the Bible but these children had to marry their brother or sister to start, and then cousins but this would not have affected the gene pool that quickly.   It was only after there were enough people around that GOD decreed that incest would not be allowed any longer.  \n\nYour other two questions also result in harm being done to both those doing it and to others.  Living with someone you are not married to often results in children that would not be protected by marriage.  Homosexuality has never been accepted with GOD because it violates HIS basic design for us.  A man and a woman are to compliment each other…to make each other complete. Where men are weak, women are strong and the reverse is true also.  This does not apply to two men or two women.   Read the hidden cost of sin in the link below
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Do you look at the proof of others 1Thes.5:1-9,21;\n\nI CHOSE TO BE A BIBLE STUDENT:\n\nThe genealogy of Jesus comes foward from Adam, Noah is #10,\nAbraham is #20, Matt.1:1-17; Jesus is #62 and in the Roman\nEmpire which is in Rev.17:1-6,10-14; the sixth of this present world, the bible comes in the seventh, Jesus comes again in the eighth to reign 1000 years Rev.20:1-6; Jesus\nis the first creature created by God, Col.1:14-15; John 17:5,24; He was with God before the world was, Heb.2:9,14;\nhe died the same as we all in this temporary life do, that\nhe might take away sin and death 1Cor.15:22-28; John 3:16;\nand give life eternal in a new heaven and a new earth. He was the only one able save the world.\n\nAll this took time, that time we are still in:\n\nWith genealogy of Jesus down to Abraham one devine,\n\nGiven the covenant for Israel to have land God defined,\n\nWith Moses they would exit Egypt, bondage left behind,\n\nA delay in Wilderness to death of Moses, one meek and kind.\n\nJudges ruled to Samuel, to after Saul, as David is king line,\n\nSolomon began and built temple and reigned until year 3069,\n\nThe Judah king line captive in Babylon, began prophecy time,\n\n3460 on to world gets the bible, as Michael faces foes unkind. 3460 + 2520 = 5980 Rev.12:6,7-11,12,17[foe & Word];\n\nHe cast Satan out of Heaven in 8th, begans last days decline,\n\nDuring world War/wars, nations blind, SEALED of God refined,\nRev.9:1-5[Pit open for Satan, sealed of God there, WW1/WW2, KJV 1611 +395 = 2006 end times for Satan to Rev.20:1-6];\n\nSatan's beast full at seven, Jesus ends the 8th to reign subline,\n\nSatan gets the pit, Lambs Bride raised up th heavens heighths.\n\nHeavens cleansed, A Michael fight, Jerusalems heirs to Zion,\n\nTo reign with Jesus 1000 years, to save 6000 years mankind,\n\nTo cleanse also earth and its people, for a paradise redefined, Luke 23:43; Rev.2:7; 21:1-5,9,10; 22:14,17;\n\nAll is perfect, for God, by Lamb and His Bride from ZION. \n\nRom.9:33; 11:26; 1Pet.2:5-9; Jesus chief corner stone.\nJohn 6:39,40,44; 1Thes.4:15-17; Mark 13:27; Rev.7:9-17;\nFrom Adam to last days to at the last day and 1000 year\nreign to all made new, it covers time. Eph.3:21[Jesus world\nnever ends]; Gal.5:22-24; Jesus devoted to all who love his Father Matt.22:37-40; All given every opportunity possible.
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Yes, if you believe that the whole of history is contained in the Bible, then, he would have to have married his sister.  However, it could be that a generation or two had actually passed, or, that there were other people around from other tribes... in which case, it could also be his cousin.
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Why would they tell you? Are you hospitalized for an illness that is found only in the children of incest? The main reason why incest is discouraged is because of the higher probability of genetic defects and medical problems. The only reason I could think of why they would break this news to you is because a doctor was about to tell you what's behind your medical problem.\n\nMany cultures and religions look down on incestuous relationships because they have seen the deformed babies and abnormal children that resulted from these unions so they created religious stories to discourage such relationships. Christians in particular are more adverse to this because once they came to power around the fall of the Roman Empire, they wanted to convert everyone to Christianity. They did everything they could to denounce the gods and culture of the old Roman Empire that had oppressed them.\n\nThe Roman Gods were adapted from many religions, but mainly from Greek mythology where many of the stories involved incestuous relationships for example the Greek god Zeus was married to his sister Hera and (if I remember correctly) Athena was their daughter. In Roman culture incestuous relationships were not that common or generally approved of. There were instances of Roman rulers in such relationships, but it wasn't considered againts the will of the gods since they have such relationships. Of course Christians like to think they're above everyone else, but if they actually apply a little logic to their own mythology of man's creation then by their book, everyone on the planet is a child of incest, because God only created Adam & Eve. So if any Christian gives you crap about how you were born and trying to make you feel bad for something you had no control over, tell them to shut the f*** up.\n\nIf you want to how to handle the situation, I suggest you don't tell anyone, except your doctor and only do that if you have a "mystery disease" he can't figure out. Yeah, I know... kinda late for that considering the posted question, but don't tell anyone else. Even though your parents did it, don't do what they did. No sex with family members.\n\nAs for your parents/siblings... they're still family. They are the ones that took care of you, taught you ABC's and 123's, threw you birthday parties, gave you christmas presents, and still tried to give you the same love and caring that occurs in every other family. Your origins and their relationship shouldn't change how you feel about them or make your experiences together invalid. \n\nJust tell them you love them...\n\n\n...but you're not in love with them. =P
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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After 130 years Son #1, killed Son #2 Gen.4:8; and Seth was born in the same year, so in 130 years how many children may have been born to Adam and Eve and a son age 102 and a daughter age 100 and to the ones that mixed, so that it was no problem for Cain to find a wife.\nAdam died at age 930 and no idea how many children born to them. Gen.5:3,4; \nThere is no incest as we know it, until getting farther away from Adam meant children with problems, then the law of the land comes about as 2515 years after Adam Levi.18:6-15;
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Some one asked a very similar question to yours a couple of days ago, questioning where Cain "found" his wife, however the so called "scholars" answered with the following :\n\n\n1. He married his sister\n2. There were other people on earth before God created Adam & Eve (which insinuates that some of us are not descendents of Adam & Eve and are therefore not created by God)\n3. The story is just metaphorical.\n\nThere are many other variations to the story and no "one" common belief among the biblical scholars. Which just goes to show that the story is not true. How could it be when the first form of written communication took place thousands of years after the Adam and Eve era? That would mean that the "story" was verbally communicated from generation to generation until it could be documented.
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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.)
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Jesus had a half brother named James.  He wrote one of the books in the bible.  There is no proof Jesus was married, that was a made up fact to promote a book and a movie.
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the funny thing is, the original text of the OLD testament didn't say anything about homosexuality being a sin either. the part that's commonly translated to say "a man should not lie with another man as he would lie with a woman, that is detestable" was originally mistranslated on PURPOSE when some homophobic church leaders got together to write the king james version...the original hebrew text translates to "a man should not lie with another man in a woman's bed, that is unclean". so basically there's no restriction on who can have sex with whom, just where they are allowed to do it.
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This Scriptural passage discusses three from among the first offspring of Adam and Eve. We know that Adam and Even also had other offspring.\n(Genesis 5:4) And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters. \n\nClearly, Cain's wife was either a sister or niece of his from among Adam and Eve's other offspring. There is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain's wife was of a race of mankind different from Adam and Eve. Similarly, there is nothing in this passage on which to base the idea that Cain was of a particular race or that his "sign" was anything more than a public proclamation by God.\n\nSince all of mankind was wiped out by the Noachian flood, none of the names in Genesis chapter 4 can relate to post-flood nations.
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Wow. That is a loaded question. I would say it started way back in the beginning of the history of men and was part of the physical temptations Satan and his fallen angels used to try to persuade people to stop following God's commandments. I have read that it was also part of the reason the world was destroyed by flood, and Noah and his family (his sons had one wife each) had to start over on re-populating the earth. That's all I will say about this subject, because I don't want to get a lot of angry messages from people who think differently. I'm not a "homophobe," I just see things for what they are, and everyone is a child of God. Have a happy day.
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That is a great question that we will unfortunately never find the accurate answer to.\nAlthough, it only says in the Bible that Adam and Eve were the FIRST man and woman God created...I don't think it ever said they were the ONLY one's he created, if your looking for answers regarding the Bible.\nI'd also like to add that genetically, it's next to impossible to have a healthy child created in incest, especially as close as brother and sister. If those problems exist now, then reason says they would exist way back then as well. So, I think either God created more people, or Adam and Eve were the first "modern humans" along the evolution chain. I'm a bit undecided about it since I believe in God along with evolution...kind of weird, huh?
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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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Hello BibleGuy the answer is simple. It is clearly writen. Gen 5:1-2, Gen 1:26-28.  Cain wife was from Adam, not His father, she was not His sister, Adam was the name of those God created in the Begining and called their name Adam, this is not talking about Adam & Eve who where in the Garden. Adam was the Name of those God created and 1 of Them He chose and Place in the Garden, thus showing His way even from the Begining chosing from Mankind (Adam) to guide and lead the others in the way.  Adam was not just One person but many. Not just One color.  If you like to know more contack me at PastorDoulos@yahoo.com