RE: Christians...
April 25, 2015 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 11:15 am by Razzle.)
(April 25, 2015 at 9:07 am)dyresand Wrote:(April 25, 2015 at 8:46 am)Razzle Wrote: Where in the Bible is incest described as a sin? Isn't it just one of those things Christians assume is in there because it matches their own views, like only "one man, one woman" marriages being acceptable despite the rampant condoned polygamy and concubines, and God considering the killing of humans in utero to be the crime of murder when the punishment was a mere fine in Old Testament law?
Read this http://www.gotquestions.org/incest-in-the-Bible.html it explains it.
Great, thanks! A few interesting things in there:
The genetic explanation that page gives for incest being wrong after Leviticus and not before it, doesn't explain some of the rules in the Leviticus passage they cite (Leviticus 18:6-18), i.e. " You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister" and "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt."
Also, these seem to be rules regulating, and therefore continuing to permit, polygamy: "You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive."
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