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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Origin of Man
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Date: Sun, 24-Mar-85 14:56:42 EST
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> The first time that incest is referred to in the Bible is in Leviticus
> chap.20. Here, God is giving Isreal the Law. The Law strictly forbids
> any act of incest.  The only other mention of it is in Gen. 19 with Lot
> and his daughters.
> 
> By this time in human history, the effects of sin were obvious. Life
> span had drastically dropped, meat eating (1) had been encouraged to
> supplement the scarcity of and difficulty of obtaining plant nutrition,
> (famines were quite common) (1) See Gen.6&7, and sin had even effected
> genetics.
> 
> The sin diseased genes of Adam and Eve had mutated enough down through
> time to cause serious health defects in the offspring of those closely
> related (As we can see today). God, knowing this, and in his effort to
> preserve His chosen people, proclaimed incest a sin and commanded the
> Isrealites to abstain from it.
> 
>  					    Dan Boskovich

Here we are asked to believe that somehow ethical and moral conduct
producess genetic changes; changes that are not only inherited, but
control our behavior on a daily basis.  Claims like this had better be
substantiated with physical evidence if anyone is going to take them
seriously.

It is interesting to note here that Jesus is a descendent of David, who
in turn was descended from Lot through this same incestuous
relationship with his daughters.  If sin WERE transmitted genetically,
then God might have found someone more "sin free" amoung the levites.

I don't think, however, that he is as interested in the purity of a
man's genes as he is in the purity of his heart, which is most likely
not guided by genetics or ridiculous theories determined to justify a
particular belief system.
-- 


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