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From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Origin of man
Message-ID: <281@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 21:38:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 21:38:07 1985
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In article <23193@lanl.ARPA> jp@lanl.ARPA writes:
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>Perhaps there are people on this net who can supply me with an
>answer to my question.
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>If man descended from Adam and Eve, where did the generations
>after their children come from?  Did these early people commit
>INCEST?  Or, were there other ancestors of man lurking about?
>
>Jim Potter, jp@lanl.arpa

 Yes, Adam and Eve did commit INCEST. What we know of genetics today
 explains the dangers of incest. The answer to your question is a
 theological one and not scientific. Incest may have not been as
 dangerous when the earth and the human race was still relatively
 new. As the account goes, when Adam sinned, he died. His death was
 a spiritual death with a physical death to follow. Christ came to
 redeem mankind from sin and the effects of sin, which is both deaths.
 Death is a seperation, physical death is seperation from the body,
 and spiritual death is seperation from God. God says "The wages of sin
 is death". Since the entire human race was in the loins of Adam at the
 time of his sin, this means the death of the entire fallen, human race.
 However, at this early period of time, the effects of sin (death) were
 not so advanced and the human specimen was not as imperfect as today.
 This is why the people of this era lived for hundreds of years. The
 canopy of vapors surrounding the earth which was removed at the Noachic
 flood of course had much to do with this also. But with all the great
 medical breakthroughs, the human race is still destined to die. Cancer,
 starvation, drug and alcohol OD's and even suicides are all symptoms
 of a dying race. God allowed incest since it was the only means of
 multiplying the human race at that time. It was His perogative!

				     Dan