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Subject: Must we justify incest among Adam's kids |
Bible Note: Steve, Thanks for responding to my post. I too am trying to focus on the things God has chosen to reveal. When I saw these postings about Cain's wife, I was in no way searching for an answer to this question. To be perfectly honest, I never thought to ask it myself, and still don't spend a whole lot of time on it. If I am ever asked about it, I will be sure to say that "I believe" that Cain married a descendant of Adam and Eve, and if I am asked why, I will point to verse Gen 3:20 where Adam says that Eve is the mother of all the living. I simply wanted to know if it was then my duty, as a Christian, to be willing to defend the actions of Adam and Eve's children, since I believe that they committed incest. I am unsure as to whether there is a possibility of deriving a moral principle that permits incest. If incest was God's solution, then I would know, and accept with certianty that it was the right and Holy solution, completely consistent with God's character and His truth. But I do not believe that the Bible gives us evidence that it was God's solution. So now it seems that we are heading down the path of free will, election, and pre-destination (which most of the replies I have received to this question have headed, without actually going there). If I would have seen it from the beginning, I wouldn't have asked my question. I am too uncomfortable with all the implications some people take from election and pre-destination, and I just don't have a good enough grasp on it to muddle my way through all the controversies surrounding it. I consider it spiritual food that I am just not ready to digest yet. But, just for the sake of arguement, are you asking me to believe that God would pre-destine incest, or would He simply permit it (even though He abhorres it) because He knew that His creatures would exercise their free will and commit incest, and He could have the sole glory of working His miracles to bring to righteousness, a people whose only existence is derived from an abomination? Would He pre-destine such a scenario, or would He allow His creatures to create such a scenario? Is it pre-destination, or is it foreknowledge? Does God actually plan all the sin in this world, or does He allow it, and work through it? I'm reading the book of Job right now, so many questions, but I am not sure that I am ready for the answers that haven't already been fulfilled in Christ. Thanks for your welcome. I think this forum is pretty great, and I have noticed some consistently wise answers posted by the same people...but I cannot keep up with all the questions, so if I don't get the email in my box telling me that someone has replied, I just go to where I left off. Thanks again, Steph |