Bible Discussion Thread

For Mel, You wouldn't call it incest as you have to put yourself in the picture when you read scripture. Pre Noah's flood, humans lived close to a thousand years and had lots and lots of kids. After Noah the new environment conditions and Gods command reduced our life span to 120 years.These days you may marry someone 5 or 10 years younger and have a few kids but in those days you may have married someone 200 years younger and from many generations away from yourself genetically. My grandparents had ten kids and lived for 85 years. Last count we had about 200 decendants from them. Can you imagine if they had lived for 900 years and their kids and kids kids also lived 900 years...Lots of people around quickly and after a few hundred years nobody would know who was closely related to who and all this in a pure Adamite Gene pool with very few of our modern defects. Cain was probably alone for a few hundred years before very happily bumping into a girl for him from one of his distant relatives. If you look at a world population graph, you will see how fast the population has grown in only the last few hundred years.

My aunt married when she was 12 and had 25 kids.

God did say be fruitful and multiply so it's not sin for them at that time to be fruitful and to multiply.

Great answer. Also, It was not consider incest until God told them to stop. If we all have the same origin, in the beginning there was no one else around to have a family with. At some point, a few women had children with fallen angels called: Moloch, Chemosh, Dagon, Belial, Beelzebub and their kidswere called the nephilim.

No humans ( male or female ) has ever and will not ever have sex with angels. Angels are sexless. They are neither male or female. They neither marry or are given in marriage.