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To: WildTurkey
That would make Cain's wife Cain's sister. No wonder they skipped this in Sunday School ...Actually, sister, niece or distant cousin are all possibilities. Why does this trouble you ? Becuase its against christian law ? Well, that isn't true
Many people immediately reject the conclusion that Adam and Eve’s sons and daughters married each other by appealing to the law against brother-sister intermarriage. Some say that you cannot marry your relation. Actually, if you don’t marry your relation, you don’t marry a human! A wife is related to her husband even before they marry because all people are descendants of Adam and Eve—all are of ‘one blood.’ The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18–20). Provided marriage was one man to one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 and 2), there was no disobedience to God’s law originally when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.

Remember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.

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274 posted on 01/29/2005 12:33:17 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa
(Leviticus 18–20).

Lesbians are OK! :-)

275 posted on 01/29/2005 12:39:58 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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