Here's a head-scratcher for you:
Deuteronomy 27:22 says "Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother."
In Genesis 20:11-12 Abraham says of his wife Sarah, "...Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife."
So the great father of the Israelite people was a cursed man by God's own declaration?
It does appear as if God has flipped flopped on things. One could say that the Abraham/Sarah thing occurred long before Moses penned his lines in Deuteronomy. God wanted a great line and probably thought Ab and Sar would do better than Ab and some other sweet thing. How does that settle in?
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, that doesn't really settle well at all with me for two more reasons.
ReplyDelete1) It seems ridiculous that God would have no problem with it and then all of a sudden it's one of the worst things you can do (causing one to become cursed).
2) If God doesn't approve of such arrangements, why did he make it impossible to avoid after creation? If you start with only two people, incest is inevitable at first for them to "be fruitful and multiply."
Not that I am in any way trying to argue in favor of brother-sister relations, but this just seems like such a glaring breach of logic. Is God not logical? That idea would have some serious implications for one's faith in my mind.
I've been researching the lost books of the Bible and The Nag Hammadi Library (very interesting back story) contain a category on creation, maybe the lost books explain the blood line in better detail?
ReplyDeleteWhere did Cain's wife come from?
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