I have a religious question and I need a serious answer??

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The Bible does not cover every minute detail. It never says Adam was His only creation. It also does not say there was only one Adam. There was no law or guidance to what is wrong until the time of Moses therefor no offences were understood as wrong behavior.

God had a plan and none of us knows exactly how it all went. What we do know is other worldlyindividuals interferred with that plan. Numbers 6. After that happened is different than before that happened for certain genetically speaking things changed. There might not have been any genetic consequences to family sex previous to the interferrance so perhaps then it was not wrong.

There are many things taught in churches which people make up on their own or get taught after someone else twists things around to meet their need.

I suggest you read it for ourself and then at least you will not be the victim of somebody elses twisting. If you do this pray first that you can let go of all your biases and see what God intended.

People seem to bring up this question every several minutes, like it is the "coup de grace" to the Bible and Christianity. Yes, they probably married their sister...but so what? They also lived more than 900 years long in a lifetime too!

As for "inbreeding" and all similar comments, how close does anyone think that Adam and Eve's DNA structures were in similarity, seeing that she was formed out of his own body?

These kinds of things don't really mean much in my opinion. It's hardly the main point, either.

But since we are 10 miles off topic (Jesus Christ is Savior of the world) let's talk about polygamy. Jacob (who was named Israel) begat 12 sons (the 12 tribes of Israel) by 4 different women. Two of them were not his wives, but woman servants to the two sisters that he was married to (Leah and Rachel). Is this God's plan for us today, to practice polygamy? Not according to the New Testament. But whether or not that's what should have happened back then (I am not qualified to judge that), that is how it happened and God used it to work His will in the earth.

As for following rules and guidelines for what was morally acceptable, at the times that these events occured, there was no guidelines. The 10 commandments had not been handed down until Moses (more than 400 years after the 12 sons of Israel were born). Where there is no law, there is no offence.

"because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression." Romans 4:15 NIV

"for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law." Romans 5:13 NIV

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.

First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.

One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.

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You are right. Adam and Eve had sex with each other, of course. The Bible says that Adam had many sons and daughters. Cain, Seth, and the other sons had no choice but to take their own sisters as wives. Generations later, Abraham married his half-sister Sarah.

However, centuries later, the Law of Moses declared that a man couldn't marry his sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, niece, or aunt. He wasn't forbidden to marry his cousin, and quite a few Israelites still married their cousins. Probably humanity had developed, or degenerated, to the point that it was no longer biologically safe, nor socially sound, to marry a close relative.

There are far better answers that what I can provide, but the short of it is that the Old Testament laws came after Adam and Eve by a longshot. Unfortunately, to propagate the species, in-breeding was a necessity when you trace it back to the first man and woman. After there was enough genetic diversity, in the times of the first books of the Bible, then God could put the kibosh on incest. As well He should.

i am sorry for all the answers who make fun of the bible and the word of God they will have to pay for that later.

the answer to your question is that in the beginning there was no such thing as incest because the blood line was pure.

If you go to leviticus chapter 18 starting in verse 4 through 24 it will give a list of all the people you should not have sex with.

even here it is not called incest it is called wickedness and an abomination.

I believe God had to put restrictions on who you could have sex with at this time because the blood line was getting so contaminated or maybe just because it was something that needed to be done i dont really know but i do know that the bible does not contridict itself

it was put in the bible at this time to seperate it from the beginning for at the beginning it could not have been put in because there would have been noway for adam and eve and their children to multiply as God commanded them

To think about it seriously you would have to come to the conclusion that the bible is pretty flawed. I'm a staunch believer in not taking all of the good things out of the bible and saying this is a fantastic book, but then dismissing all of the crazy things and saying that they're just metaphors. Endorsing slavery is a metaphor for what exactly?

You are correct. Adam and Eve's sons and daughter married each other and established the human race. Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, besides the three mentioned by name. (Cain, Abel, and Seth)

What we now call incest was not incest back then.

There were no laws written at that time that prohibited the practice.

Incest was eventually forbidden in the Levitical Law(s) of Judaism.

The Adam & Eve story is a made-up fairy tale. The bible is a book of fiction (Bad Fiction) and there are no such things as gods.

I'm not aware that it ever says that. . . . the Catholic church used to give dispensations out for people who lived in an area where all there was were just family members. . . . I'm pretty sure that the no incest thing is more of an ecumenical doctrine rather than Biblical statement