cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) (03/30/85)
> > When God took away his permission to commit incest - how > > could it have been done? .... > > When did this major change of policies took place? > > How was the announcement made? > > I do not, to be sure, expect you to have exact answers, but > > rather would be interested in opinion of modern theology. > > > The first time that incest is referred to in the Bible is in Leviticus > chap.20. Here, God is giving Isreal the Law. The Law strictly forbids > any act of incest. Up until that time, God never addressed the issue. > > So as you see, God did not impose a sudden change of heart and a > consequent new Law on the world, but mercifully presented the solution > to a serious problem. This problem of course was brought on by mankinds > > Dan Boskovich These are the pieces of rather informative reply, but I was asking about technical details: When God announced the new policy some folks must have been married to their siblings. What happened to those couples? Were they given exemption and allowed to continue with their lifestyle? Or... You know what I mean. Also, as we know, animals do not do those things any more. They must have been producing offspring with members of their brood who happened to be of opposite sex. Not anymore. Was it direct God's intervention that influenced them? They could not have had same problems as humans - their genes were not negatively affected by Adam's sin. Any theories on that? Mike Cherepov
dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich) (04/02/85)
In article <202@ihlpm.UUCP> cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) writes: >> > When God took away his permission to commit incest - how >> > could it have been done? .... >> > When did this major change of policies took place? >> > How was the announcement made? >> > I do not, to be sure, expect you to have exact answers, but >> > rather would be interested in opinion of modern theology. >> >> >> The first time that incest is referred to in the Bible is in Leviticus >> chap.20. Here, God is giving Isreal the Law. The Law strictly forbids >> any act of incest. Up until that time, God never addressed the issue. >> >> So as you see, God did not impose a sudden change of heart and a >> consequent new Law on the world, but mercifully presented the solution >> to a serious problem. This problem of course was brought on by mankinds >> >> Dan Boskovich > >These are the pieces of rather informative reply, but I was asking >about technical details: >When God announced the new policy some folks must have been married >to their siblings. What happened to those couples? Were they >given exemption and allowed to continue with their lifestyle? >Or... You know what I mean. Because the bible is silent concerning this question, it would seem that they would be given exemption. Only four hundred years earlier God had promised to Abraham to make him a great nation. This would be accomplished through his wife Sarah, who happened to be his half-sister! God's character would never allow him to break up a marriage, as God hates divorce! The new law would be from that point on! >Also, as we know, animals do not do those things any more. >They must have been producing offspring with members of their >brood who happened to be of opposite sex. >Not anymore. Was it direct God's intervention that influenced them? >They could not have had same problems as humans - their genes >were not negatively affected by Adam's sin. Adams sin resulted in a world-curse. See Gen.3. The ground was cursed and all of creation became different. To what extent is impossible to know! But one example is that Adam seemed to have a intimate relationship with the animals. Not a sexual one, but a friendship. This was lost after the curse. During the Mellinium, the period Christ will reign on earth from Jerusalem, the lion shall lie down with the lamb, or they shall be friendly. This is also a direct contrast to animal life today! I can elaborate on this if you would like, but the point is that Adams sin did effect animal life, the ground (plant life), and essentially the entire world. Dan