Incestuous behavior?

[Domenico]

Ishida, the thing that makes me laugh the most about those commandments is the way theyre set up means its totaly okay for a woman to sleep with her brother, uncle, father, other women etc...

Oh, and two couples wouldnt have preveted incest. The first generation would have been fine, they could marry into the other family (assuming there were an equal number of men and women) but the second generation would have all had to marry either their siblings or their cousins.

 

[Beanieboy]

Cousins is better than sisters or brothers.

Hey Uncle Adam, I mean, Dad...

Way too confusing.

 

[Beanieboy]

At least bringing your girlfriend home to meet your parents wouldn't have been that hard...

 

[AtheistPerson]

God must believe that incest or perhaps its missing from the scripture of the bible (not joking().

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Wouldn't 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 fall under 6? Why the redundancy? And 12-13 is one person, she must be a big girl (that's OK I have an aunt like that too). Oh and cute how you threw in the Mohamed thing, not relevant at all to this thread but it always strengthens one's own faith to tear down the faith of others doesn't it?

Who am I tearing at? It was a question. But glad you noticed.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Ishida, the thing that makes me laugh the most about those commandments is the way theyre set up means its totaly okay for a woman to sleep with her brother, uncle, father, other women etc...

Oh, and two couples wouldnt have preveted incest. The first generation would have been fine, they could marry into the other family (assuming there were an equal number of men and women) but the second generation would have all had to marry either their siblings or their cousins.

Take it up with the Jews, I merely copied the scripture.

 

[dinonum]

I used to really struggle with it, but let me explain something.

Incest didn't really exist until a long while after Adam and Eve helped populate the earth. I have a personal belief that God didn't allow for "defects" until after He made clear that He didn't want people to have relations inside close family anymore.

 

[The Nihilist]

I used to really struggle with it, but let me explain something.

Incest didn't really exist until a long while after Adam and Eve helped populate the earth. I have a personal belief that God didn't allow for "defects" until after He made clear that He didn't want people to have relations inside close family anymore.

You know that's ridiculous, right?

 

[Apollo Celestio]

One could wonder, would the incest that occurred be the cause...err, I won't say it here. But the lives of people got shorter and shorter, and then..oh never mind, not here.

 

[Domenico]

Take it up with the Jews, I merely copied the scripture.

Domenico: Hey, Duvid! The book of Leviticus has some really silly, sexist rules in it.
Duvid (Jew): Thats because they didnt need to worry about women reading it, given most people couldn't read, and that went doubly so for women. Doesn't mean theyre not silly though.
Domenico: Oh yeah, I get that. Hey Duvid! You want some crayfish?
Duvid: You want a beating?

So, I asked the Jews. Or at least, A Jew.

 

[dinonum]

You know that's ridiculous, right?

From an atheist perspective, yes. Unfortunately, the whole idea of God is also ridiculous too, so I don't see what it matters.

 

[violetchick]

From an atheist perspective, yes. Unfortunately, the whole idea of God is also ridiculous too, so I don't see what it matters.

But you're basically saying that God issued birth defects when he decided that maybe incest was a bad idea after all.
That does seem ridiculous. And when did he change his unchanging mind then?

 

[dinonum]

But you're basically saying that God issued birth defects when he decided that maybe incest was a bad idea after all.
That does seem ridiculous. And when did he change his unchanging mind then?

Well, no, that is what you chose to take from what I said. Actually I think that God may have decided that relations within a close family were no longer necessary to populate the earth. I don't think He "changed his mind", He is allowed to plan ahead, lol.

 

[violetchick]

Well, no, that is what you chose to take from what I said. Actually I think that God may have decided that relations within a close family were no longer necessary to populate the earth. I don't think He "changed his mind", He is allowed to plan ahead, lol.

So he decided that the best way to stop the previously ok incest was to start giving children birth defects?

Nice.

 

[dinonum]

So he decided that the best way to stop the previously ok incest was to start giving children birth defects?

Nice.

I will honestly let you know that I don't have any real ability to explain why God does what He does, but here is my attempt at some kind of reasoning.

Parents do this to their children a lot, heck, I know of a lot of young teens or pre-teens whose parents let them have a Myspace when they thought it was okay. Eventually they would decide that it wasn't okay and they didn't want their children to use it anymore. So, parents were punishing their children when they found out that they were going ahead and doing it.
Deciding that something is not alright anymore and setting forth a punishment for people still doing that action doesn't make someone horrible, so why is it okay to use that on God?

 

[tulc]

Parents do this to their children a lot, heck, I know of a lot of young teens or pre-teens whose parents let them have a Myspace when they thought it was okay. Eventually they would decide that it wasn't okay and they didn't want their children to use it anymore. So, parents were punishing their children when they found out that they were going ahead and doing it.
Deciding that something is not alright anymore and setting forth a punishment for people still doing that action doesn't make someone horrible, so why is it okay to use that on God?

MySpace causes birth defects?
tulc(sorry! couldn't resist, bad tulc, no doughnut!)

 

[ReverendDG]

I will honestly let you know that I don't have any real ability to explain why God does what He does, but here is my attempt at some kind of reasoning.

Parents do this to their children a lot, heck, I know of a lot of young teens or pre-teens whose parents let them have a Myspace when they thought it was okay. Eventually they would decide that it wasn't okay and they didn't want their children to use it anymore. So, parents were punishing their children when they found out that they were going ahead and doing it.
Deciding that something is not alright anymore and setting forth a punishment for people still doing that action doesn't make someone horrible, so why is it okay to use that on God?

the problem with your comparison is christians say god never changes. while parents are never expected to keep the same rules they make.
god seems to be claimed to keep his laws the same forever even though he does change them.
incest is a good example of this, also the flood is as well

if people didn't claim he never changes his law, it wouldn't be a big deal but people do claim this. so it seems inconstant

 

[ReverendDG]

MySpace causes birth defects?
tulc(sorry! couldn't resist, bad tulc, no doughnut!)

i think myspace is like cellphones.. it causes tumors

 

[dinonum]

MySpace causes birth defects?
tulc(sorry! couldn't resist, bad tulc, no doughnut!)

Lol, I'm not that big on examples having to be "comparable". I guess I'm not that picky, lol, no offense.

 

[dinonum]

the problem with your comparison is christians say god never changes. while parents are never expected to keep the same rules they make.
god seems to be claimed to keep his laws the same forever even though he does change them.
incest is a good example of this, also the flood is as well

if people didn't claim he never changes his law, it wouldn't be a big deal but people do claim this. so it seems inconstant

God didn't have to change. He could have easily planned from the beginning to do that.

Also, you seem to be concerned with what people say, but what people say doesn't really matter. Personally I believe God is, whether or not it makes sense to you, changing and yet unchanging. I understand that a lot of God seems very paradoxical to especially atheists, but I think that God isn't meant to be fully understood by us now.

I always have problems with this because for me it is extremely difficult to discuss the complexities of God over the internet, so you'll have to please excuse me if some of the things I say don't necessarily make "sense".