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When Is Incest Not Incest—When it is Biblical!
Right-wing conservative Christians hold the Bible as their God’s holy words and deeds as the Gospel truth. When it comes to Adam and Eve begetting their children there is only one way they can go to preserve the facts as they see. In the Christian view, it’s not incest it is done mostly through the consentual Marriage of siblings. The Bible is full of stories of biblical figures having incestual acts with close family members. They (Christians) have an answer for everything, and they have a good one for the act of incest. Although like the Bible it is contradictory as their God first allows sex between family members, yet, somehow during writing the scripture God forbids incest to happen. On incest—The Bible doesn’t say, but we can speculate. First, there was an obvious need for marriage between close relatives, as the number of human beings on the earth at that time was limited. Adam and Eve’s children married their close relatives, by necessity, without it being considered incest. But, even in those days, marriage between parent and child seems to have been disallowed: “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). https://www.compellingtruth.org/incest-Bible.html
These are some of the incests acts that occur in the Bible. The most commonly thought-of examples are the sons/daughters of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4), Abraham marrying his half-sister Sarah (Genesis 20:12), Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19), Moses’ father Amram who married his aunt Jochebed (Exodus 6:20), and David’s son Amnon with his half-sister Tamar (2 Samuel 13). It is important to note, however, that in two of the above instances (Tamar and Lot), one of the parties involved was an unwilling participant in the incest—better described as rape in those cases. Rape, that’s a convenient Christian answer to incest: It is important to distinguish between incestuous relationships before God commanding against them (Leviticus 18:6–18) and incest that occurred after God’s commands had been revealed. Until God commanded against it, it was not incest. It was just marrying a close relative.
https://www.gotquestions.org/incest-in-the-Bible.html Christian answer is marrying a close relative is not incest.
The Christian answer to Cain’s wife!
If we now work totally from Scripture, without any personal prejudices or other extra-biblical ideas, then back at the beginning, when there was only the first generation, brothers would have had to have married sisters or there would be no more generations!
We are not told when Cain married or any of the details of other marriages and children, but we can say for certain that some brothers had to marry their sisters at the beginning of human history. https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c004.html Christian answers for incest is marriage.
Ancient people knew the difference without a god telling them that incest was wrong. People found partners in the next village or town, which genetically strengthened the gene pool they knew sexually, right from wrong. Humans have been farming animals for 12,000 years and knew of introducing new blood to their stock. Dogs did not choose to be Dalmations, Labradors, Alsatians, Poodles, Dachshund, Chihuahuas, Staffies, etc., no, man did that by cross-breeding.
The Bible treats humankind like we are a load of imbeciles to sexual morality: Thy Shalt not covert thy Mother or thy Sister, and especially thy neighbour’s wife who is thy kin nor your neighbour’s ass! [Jero’s translation of Exodus 20:17 adopted from the 1526 Early Modern Englisce Tyndale Bible]
The Bible must be the most bigoted sexually promiscuous immoral book ever written with the authors venting their ascetic sexual abstinence views of sex on the masses.
From time immemorial the institution of marriage was the strengthening of bonds between two families, a covenant that brought wealth, peace and unification. It had nothing to do with God or Gods. It was not until the 12th-century that Roman Catholic Church defined marriage as a sacrament sanctioned by God, what do you say?
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Jero Jones
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