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Surrender
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Posted 6/24/2010 6:15 PM (GMT -6)

It used to be just fine for siblings to marry, but later it was written, "The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness (Lev. 18:11).

Also, Jacob married sisters, but later it was written, “You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness” (Lev. 18:18).

Doesn’t this mean that what God considers sin can change over time? Does that mean that morality can change over time?

Post Edited (Surrender) : 6/24/2010 9:04:08 PM (GMT-5)

might-be-don
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Posted 6/25/2010 11:17 AM (GMT -6)

So you think it might have been ok to do such things if no "law" existed against it?

Even though there was no "law" against murder, Cain knew what he had done was wrong.

^{The world's perfect, wouldn't change a thing.}

Surrender
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Posted 6/25/2010 1:06 PM (GMT -6)

So Adam and Eve's kids went around breaking the law? They didn't have a choice but to marry siblings. If it was a sin, surely God would have come up with another plan.

So, yes, I think it was OK to do because there was no law against it.

Similitude
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Posted 6/27/2010 1:24 PM (GMT -6)

I'm not sure that marriage was the bottom line in those verses. The intro to the chapter talks about acting with intent to uncover nakedness. What if consumating a marriage with one that is near kin was OK because that rendered the two one flesh (of course, marrying a parent could have still been wrong because of the conflicting duties it may have resulted in)? If that doesn't account for it, we always have the idea that mutations cause diseases from marriages of near kin more probabilistically than other marriages. One way or the other, it's not completely inexplicable.

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