Results 1 - 5 of 5
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | Possibly a niece? | Gen 1:1 | Makarios | 13919 | ||
From "Hard Sayings of the Bible"... "Up to this point in Genesis we only know about Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. But the most obvious answer to this common question must be that Adam and Eve had other children, including daughters. Indeed, Genesis 5:4 plainly says as much, “[Adam] had other sons and daughters.” Cain must have married his sister. But to admit this is to raise a further difficulty: was he thereby guilty of incest? At least two things can be said in response to this reproach. First, if the human race was propagated from a single pair, as we believe the evidence indicates, such closely related marriages were unavoidable. The demand for some other way of getting the race started is an unfair expectation. In the second place, the notion of incest must be probed more closely. At first the sin of incest was connected with sexual relationships between parents and children. Only afterward was the notion of incest extended to sibling relationships. By Moses’ time there were laws governing all forms of incest (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11-12, 14, 17, 20-21; Deut 22:30; 27:20, 22, 23). These laws clearly state that sexual relations or marriage is forbidden with a mother, father, stepmother, sister, brother, half brother, half sister, granddaughter, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, aunt, uncle or brother’s wife. The Bible, in the meantime, notes that Abraham married his half sister (Gen 20:12). Therefore, the phenomenon is not unknown in Scripture. Prior to Moses’ time, incest in many of the forms later proscribed were not thought to be wrong. Thus, even Moses’ own father, Amram, married an aunt, his father’s sister, Jochebed (Ex 6:20). In Egypt, the routine marriage of brothers and sisters among the Pharaohs all the way up to the second century made the Mosaic law all the more a radical break with their Egyptian past. The genetic reasons for forbidding incest were not always an issue. Close inbreeding in ancient times was without serious or any genetic damage. Today, the risk of genetic damage is extremely high. Since the genetic possibilities of Adam and Eve were very good, there were no biological reasons for restricting marriages to the degree that it became necessary to do later." Nicodemus |
||||||
2 | For Nick - Niece possible or not?? | Gen 1:1 | Raymondo | 14091 | ||
Nick: you say that Cain MUST have married his sister. Is there any reason why you would discount the possibility that it may have been his niece? I'm nat saying it was his niece or had to be his niece. I had always believed it had to be his sister, given the information available to us. However, someone on this forum has pointed out that it may have been his niece and it seems to me that people here are not willing to address that possibility. | ||||||
3 | For Nick - Niece possible or not?? | Gen 1:1 | Makarios | 14136 | ||
Dear Raymondo, PLEASE Do not call me "Nick". My Screen Name is there for a REASON. You have not been given any license whatsoever to SHORTEN it in any way whatsoever. Now back to the question... I say that it is of my opinion that Cain married his sister. Cain has been married so many myriad times on this Forum already that I wonder if his harem is up to Solomon's standards by now! What does it matter if he married his niece or sister? In my opinion, Cain married his sister, and anything MORE about who Cain married or didn't marry is purely speculation!! I am not one to dwell on speculation. The Bible does not mention just who Cain married: therefore, I won't say anything more than the obvious: that it must have been a close relative, most likely his sister. This Forum is not a place for Speculation. It is here for the Purpose of Bible Study. If the answer cannot be found in the Bible, then we should not dwell on the question. --Nicodemus |
||||||
4 | Dear Nicodemus: | Gen 1:1 | Raymondo | 14478 | ||
Nicodemus: I must tell you that I was somewhat saddened by your response and final admonition that this forum isn't the place for my question and that I was in fact out of line in some fashion. 1)I am very sorry if I offended you by shortening your "screen name". As far as your discourse including capitalizing words and telling me I don't have permission or license to shorten your "nick"name whatsoever, a simple, please use my full name would have been more than sufficient. 2) Back to my question. I really don't think that looking at new logical possibilities is dwelling on speculation. First you said Cain must have married his sister. Then you now say that it is of your OPINION that he did and "and anything MORE about who Cain married or didn't marry is purely speculation!!" I would like to ask you why you feel this way? 3)You stated: "This Forum is not a place for Speculation. It is here for the Purpose of Bible Study. If the answer cannot be found in the Bible, then we should not dwell on the question." If you have no interest in the topic, why take the time to post and chastise others that do? 4) The niece possibilty is something new that I have learned from this forum and wanted some other input. I am not bringing it up to be redundent or argumentative; honestly. It is really a very simple question. Isn't it possible that rather than having to be a sister and only a sister, it could have been his niece? Contrary to what you have stated, I believe this question can be examined in light of scripture. |
||||||
5 | Dear Nicodemus: | Gen 1:1 | Brian.g | 14601 | ||
. | ||||||