BobRyan said:Read the posts and the text of scripture -- pay attention to the inconvenient details - we can then discuss.
If you were to GN to read the book of Genesis you would find that Abraham married his half sister and Isaac married his cousins.
IF you were to BELIEVE what God has written you would see that indeed the family of Adam had NTHER HUMANS to choose from for marriage - they were IT!!
Without the genetic defects in their genome that we have today - they would have had no ill effects from such marriages.
Dear Bob,
Unlike you, I always try to base my faith on what is written in the Scripture -- not's man wild imaginations, like what you have shown us so far. I am sorry, but, I am not so sure why you continue to demonstrate your ignorance of the Scripture.
Again, incest was NEVER part of the mulitiplication process of humanity based on God's rightenousness. His righteousness is the same in the past, present, and future. It is relevant for today, and tomorrow.
I am very much aware that Abraham repeatedly committted what I described to be WHITE LIES, during his travel to Egypt by introducing his wife Sarai as his "sister" because of the fear for his life -- Sarai being a "fair" (beautiful) woman (Genesis 12:11-20).
Now, let me ask you, based on the context of the Scripture and the genealogies listings, where do you see Sarai being documented as "half sister" of Abraham, as church continue to assume? Do you know whose daughther was Sarai?
Here are the listings of their geneologies....
Genesis 11
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was SARAI; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But SARAI was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, AND SARAI HIS (Terah') DAUGHTER IN LAW, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Now, Bob, present your facts to support your assumption based on the Scripture, or everyone will see that you are just whistling in the wind again -- in trying to defend your flawed religious views.
I will be waiting...
N to read the book of Genesis you would find that Abraham married his half sister and Isaac married his cousins.