Inconsistant Rules

[King of Wishful Thinking]

Incest is a sin, for a very good reason. The sons and daughters of Adam and Eve had no choice but to commit this sin, however. How can God make an act a sin and give people no choice but to commit it?

Don't tell me that it was not a sin untile the time of Leviticus, because that just points to an inconsistency in God's working, and I don't know of any truths that are inconsistant.

 

[Hank]

Are you asking or telling us God is inconsistent?

Inconsistent means to go back and forth. Before the incest laws where given by God, there where no incest laws. In other words inconsistency does not apply here.

 

[King of Wishful Thinking]

I believe the God of Genesis Creation is inconsistant, but I want you to figure that out for yourselves. Something is not a sin at one point in time but later it is. Sounds inconsitant to me.

 

[JohnR7]

Originally posted by King of Wishful Thinking
Incest is a sin, for a very good reason. The sons and daughters of Adam and Eve had no choice but to commit this sin,

Why where does the Bible say that Seth married his sister? We know where Eve came from, who is to say that God did not give Seth a wife in the same way He gave a wife to Adam?

 

[Douglaangu]

One would think that the removal of your ones rib, and the formation of a woman from that would get some mention, dispite it being the second time its happened.

 

[lucaspa]

Originally posted by JohnR7
Why where does the Bible say that Seth married his sister? We know where Eve came from, who is to say that God did not give Seth a wife in the same way He gave a wife to Adam?

Because the Bible doesn't say so.  John, what you are saying is that the Bible is literal but incomplete.  But if you can insert anything you want into the narrative, then you can make up your own Word of God.

Sorry, you can't have it both ways.  Either the Bible is the literal "Word" of God, which means it is totally true and complete, or you are inserting words into God's mouth by adding speculations like the above.

 

[lucaspa]

Originally posted by King of Wishful Thinking
I believe the God of Genesis Creation is inconsistant, but I want you to figure that out for yourselves. Something is not a sin at one point in time but later it is. Sounds inconsitant to me.

Again, let's be clear about Yahweh being "inconsistent" and the inconsistency of a literal interpretation of the Bible.  If you insist on a literal intepretation, then you will find inconsistencies.  But that doesn't mean the God of Genesis Creation, as in the God depicted by Genesis as creating the heavens and the earth, is inconsistent.

We are just now trying to get the creationists to use precise terms.  We apparently need to get non-creationists to do the same.

 

[fieldsofwind]

posted by lucaspa: "Either the Bible is the literal "Word" of God, which means it is totally true and complete"


Common lucas, you're an intelligent guy, and you're saying that if the Bible does not tell about every event that ever happened in all of the characters lives, then it therefore cannot be totally true and complete?

Please

FOW

 

[lucaspa]

Originally posted by fieldsofwind
posted by lucaspa: "Either the Bible is the literal "Word" of God, which means it is totally true and complete"


Common lucas, you're an intelligent guy, and you're saying that if the Bible does not tell about every event that ever happened in all of the characters lives, then it therefore cannot be totally true and complete?

FOW

We are not talking about "every event" (like what they had for breakfast that day), but a major creation event.  If you can insert that God created other women from the ribs of other men, like John proposes, then what are the limits to what you can insert? Can you insert new speeches of what Jesus meant to say?  Can you insert stories of Jesus' childhood like the Infant Gospel of Thomas? 

 

 

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