Watching a program on the History International Channel last night on Cain & Abel reminded me of a question I've had for a very long time. It's a question that is quite a cunundrum for the christianists, should anyone ask, concerning literal interpretation of the Bible.
There are a couple of different versions of the reasoning behind why Cain murdered Abel, but the one most interesting is that they were fighting over the love of their sister. Okay. There's no problem with that for me. Jealousy is a very human state of mind. The problem I have is in the genealogy of the human race with a literal belief of the Bible.
There was Adam and Eve. They are the mother and father of all mankind, according to the Bible. They had two children that we know by name - Cain & Abel - both male. The book says that one of the punishments for eating the apple was that Eve would know the pain of childbirth. In order to create an entire race it also means that she had to have had may children - male and female - because it takes two to tango.
In order for the next generation to exist, if all humans come from Adam and Eve, it means that the children of Adam & Eve had to have mated or Cain and/or Abel had to mate with Eve as an alternative. Isn't that incest?
In the Book of Genesis it reads that Cain indeed married his sister and had a son named Enoch for whom he built the first city where many people could live. Doesn't that mean that Enoch then had to marry, if not his sister, then at least a niece to continue the lineage? Wouldn't all of them have to marry a brother, sister, nephew, niece, cousin...?
Ahhh... that's a lot of incest.
Exactly how do the christianists justify and ameliorate this cunundrum? Did their god make it okay and then take it away? Is there any truth to Adam having a wife before Eve, Lillith? That would mean they would have been mating with only half-brothers and half-sisters. Still incest, though.
And what does all of this do to their arguments against so many things in today's civilization? Seems very hypocritical to me.
i'm confused, so i'm just asking...
2 comments:
I asked this of a pastor when I was younger. He explained that back then, people had super genes, which enabled them to live to ages like 900 years. Because their genetics were so complex, incest was acceptable.
Yeah, right.
Did you read the chapter in Genesis where demons/angels fell in love with humans, consorted with them, and produced super-beings? Genesis 6:2-4.
X-men, Genesis style.
i see.
then that also explains why, unlike the ancient egyptians who intermarried, hemophilia is not more prevalent. super genes!
but still, why isn't it acceptable today? i guess i'm still confused..
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