Marriage according to the Old Testament

[sstormwatch]

This is ... shocking, yet seemingly Bible true (if taken some out of context). Really, watch the whole thing.

"America's Best Christian takes time to explain to less informed Christians the curious details of the Lord's concept of marriage."

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[whitechocchip]

As I remember it, Sarah was not Abraham's sister ... that's what they told a foreign king so that Abraham would not be killed so that the king could have Sarah.

[docryder]

Nope. From BibleGateway.com:

Genesis 20

[docryder]

There is one point there where they've hideously failed in their scholarship, and that's how Cain marries.

Once Cain kills Abel (Genesis 4), we have this:

15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

Now, where did the wife come from? Good question, but it wasn't Eve, as Eve has Seth with Adam (Genesis 4:25). If you take a literal view of the Bible, as most Evangelicals and Fundamentalists do, then yes, Cain is in an incestuous marriage with an unnamed sister, but not his mother. However, the passage in which God creates Adam (Genesis 2):

7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became

[decembertyger]

I've always wondered where all those other people came from too. And then God reset the game world when he flooded it.
I admit, my bible scholarship is no where near good.

[docryder]

I'm not really a scholar as much as I'm:

1) interested in anthropology, both physical and cultural, and the Bible story conflicts with the hard evidence of both;

2) I'm smart enough to use Google to find the data I need to make my argument;

and 3) smart enough to copy it here and frame my argument correctly. :-)

[decembertyger]

lol I never debated your superior googlefu either ;)

[decembertyger]

ummm speechless... amused and horrorfied