The laws are completed in each of us by Jesus Yeshua for He teaches any law that does not contain mercy should not be applied.
The laws are completed in each of us by Jesus Yeshua for He teaches any law that does not contain mercy should not be applied.
So God created wives for the remaining two sons of Adam the same way he created a wife for Adam so they may not do an evil thing before the sight of the Lord?Genesis keeps repeating that it was the 'sons of God' going with the 'daughters of men'....not the 'daughters of God' going with the 'sons of men' or the sons and daughters of God going together...or the sons and daughters of men going together.
so it would seem the two sexes or genders had separate geneologies/lineages
I cant really figure out clearly in my mind why this is so but thats probably an explanation as to why that wasnt considered incest.
well theres no reason why God couldnt just pull a rib out of Cain and one out of Seth the same as He did for Adam.So God created wives for the remaining two sons of Adam the same way he created a wife for Adam so they may not do an evil thing before the sight of the Lord?
Could be, there are a lot of gaps in the Bible am sure God will explain to saints when we make it to paradise. Blessed hope. There are stories of Lilith, I know its not Biblical but keeping an open mind is good, because no one can be too sure.well theres no reason why God couldnt just pull a rib out of Cain and one out of Seth the same as He did for Adam.
Something to ponder though not the basis of any weird new doctrine. Adam may be translated as man or even mankind. In this sense we are all born sons of Adam but we become sons of God in Yeshua.
Satisfied beyond doubt, no law no sin, Thank You guys for you efforts making this clear.
When God declared "Let us make man in our image," it was not in vain. He began His work in all of us who would be perfect at that moment, however most do not realize He is still doing it.
I agree and that is why I was trying to tell everyone the law against murder was given in the Torah but Cain had already committed it so it is in an individual's conscientious knowledge of good and evil, from the first sin where the voice within tells us we have done something wrong, the law was just to reinforce but everyone knows the moral gravity of their actions from the inner man, the knowledge of good and evil from within.I don't think that's what Paul meant, that without the Law no sin is incurred. Rather, God doesn't hold one completely accountable for what he doesn't know is wrong. However, sin is wrong whether one understands it as such, and he is held accountable whether he knows why or not.
Sin preexisted the Law, and did not require the Law to know what wrong was. Man had been given a conscience from creation, and so knew what right and wrong were, even though his conscience had been corrupted and somewhat seared. If he had not been given a law against incest, then even though sin existed, it was not the incestuous relationship that was wrong--only the sin that took place there, since incest proves to be problematic in a corrupt society.
It is less problematic at the beginning, though. I won't spell out why at this point. Let me just say that kids are pretty safe when there are less social pressures.
As to incest, there was no law against it from the beginning, since God designed marriage within the family to be the initial springboard for ultimate fulfillment. Perhaps these are things about which Paul could not speak of in his visit to the 3rd heaven?
And like nudity, what made incest wrong was the introduction of sin into the mix. And sin is exposed after the effects of sin have changed the original mentality of man.
So what began as pure ended up being corrupted. The initial development of Man of necessity had to continue as planned, even though sin already existed. I'm sure God provided some dispensation of grace to allow it to continue for a brief time until the problems associated with inbreeding and sin could be dealt with by shelving it for something better in an environment of sin.
well theres no reason why God couldnt just pull a rib out of Cain and one out
of Seth the same as He did for Adam.
Adam's sons married their sisters. No law against it then. Same as there was no law requiring circumcision, but in Exodus (after the circumcision law came in), Moses nearly got killed by God for uncircumcision.So I was just wondering how Adam's kids managed to find wives when they were none except their sisters and if they did sleep with their sisters then why was that right in the creation context and wrong in the Torah? Does the law change for desperate circumstances hence the verse "I will show mercy to whom I will, I am the Lord". Can someone with deep scholarly roots in the Bible explain this to me please?
The Canaanites descended from Noah's son Ham. I agree that Cain's lineage could have been the one that provoked the flood with their sins.well yea, Cain killed his brother and there wasnt any law given yet except for the one about the forbidden fruit.
It wasnt as if Abel had eaten it as well.
God did have mercy on Cain though and just gave him a mark instead of killing him as well, which He could have done to stop him from doing any more damage. Cain went on to find a wife and have children.
Am not sure exactly when his descendants died out, could have been in the flood. But then who were the Caananites etc descended from? They were troublesome after the flood.