Incestuous behavior?

[violetchick]

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?

But there's no mention in the bible that God decided that incest would lead to birth defects. You're just trying to force a reason that explains the higher incidence of birth defects in children of incest thaat will fit in with what the bible says.

There was incest in the beginning - therefore God condones it.
There is a greater risk of birth defect - oh God must have decided no more incest and given this as punishment! Punishment for something he started - bit severe. He could have just grounded them or made them tidy their rooms!

You've just invented your own little theory to try to explain away God's attitude to incest, as nowhere is it mentioned that God gave out birth defects as punishment.

 

[KhlulHloo]

Genetically speaking, the reasons against incest didn´t apply to A&E and their children.
Morally speaking, I don´t understand why incest is a taboo.

QFT

 

[dinonum]

But there's no mention in the bible that God decided that incest would lead to birth defects. You're just trying to force a reason that explains the higher incidence of birth defects in children of incest thaat will fit in with what the bible says.

There was incest in the beginning - therefore God condones it.
There is a greater risk of birth defect - oh God must have decided no more incest and given this as punishment! Punishment for something he started - bit severe. He could have just grounded them or made them tidy their rooms!

You've just invented your own little theory to try to explain away God's attitude to incest, as nowhere is it mentioned that God gave out birth defects as punishment.

I think the way that you approach it is silly. On one hand you are asking for reasoning and then when someone gives you their opinion on the matter, you tell them that is just their trying to reason for God.

 

[violetchick]

I think the way that you approach it is silly. On one hand you are asking for reasoning and then when someone gives you their opinion on the matter, you tell them that is just their trying to reason for God.

Thanks - I think the way you approach it all is silly too.

Wouldn't the honest answer be' I don't know'? You shouldn't need to make up excuses for your God.

 

[dinonum]

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".

This was something I said before. There is a reason why in most of my replies I try to say thinks like I think, or from what I understand, or even have said, I don't really know but...