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Right up until the time of Jacob, Israelites were still marrying close relatives without breaking any law of God or nature. The fact that God had to make a law on incest and outline it very specifically indicates that it was not unnatural in OT times to marry close kin. Only after their release from slavery in Egypt did God make it the law for Israel.
There were no mutations in the beginning. That is why Adam and Eve's children married each other, and no mutations for generations. God knew when to make it a law as enough time had passed to make it necessary.
Parts of the law were necessary for all mankind. Incest was one of those.
Yes, we can see the results of incest and know why God had to make laws to prevent the products of a contaminated, sin laden gene pool.
No...the Law has been fulfilled. All that remains are the traditions as a witness.
It is only the Ten Commandments that were the covenant - Ex. 34:28. The marriage laws are still standing. But those laws that could be fulfilled by Christ are no longer in effect. That goes for the clean and unclean animals. It is no longer a sin to eat a rat. When God commanded Peter to kill and eat those unclean animals on the sheet, He in essence was saying the Gentiles can become God's people. That is when the Holy Spirit fell upon Cornelius and his family. See Leviticus 20:25-26 25 You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.
That's what I said.
Yet Paul does imply that for a woman she can only remarry in the Lord once her husband is dead by the law. 1 Cor. 7:39.
Don't you know that there were people long before the Bible and the vast majority of humanity lived outside of the small Jewish territory and so had no knowledge of the Bible?
Ancient Mesopotamia (including Babylonia): Close-kin marriage was generally restricted. Legal texts (e.g., Hammurabi’s Code) and family documents emphasize marriage, inheritance, and kinship rules that typically prohibit marriage between direct ascendants/descendants and between siblings in ordinary society.
Our recent and current marriage traditions hardly resemble those of ancient Israel...but enough that we Gentile Christians can still make refence to it as "two become one flesh ", etc.
It is good to remember that spoke on th cusp of both Jews and the Gentiles, including many of Israeli tradition, and that generation that Jesus said all these things would come upon.
No..."In the beginning" means "In the beginning." All that was before was "void."
What are you even talking about? You believe that there was "void" before the book of Genesis was written down (or composed) in Babylonia?
No, Moses wrote Genesis after the fact, but marriage originated with Adam and Eve.
That is a nice small piece of biblical interpretation, but it has nothing to do with the post you reacted to. People lived all over the world before the Bible or without ever hearing about the Mosaic Law.
