which part of the bible forbid COUSIN relationship? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2018
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Ha Ha Ha some people live with old US country beliefs.( may be a true sign of inbreeding!) Yes, in most countries you can marry your cousin and no the rate of defects is not any higher then normal! It is mostly illegal in the U.S. states but not all states! Hey research some of this stuff, please.
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You are right.  Both biblical Judaism and biblical Christianity forbid such relations before marriage.  Immorality is prevalent in the West because, generally speaking, they have no fear of God.  It is as 2 Timothy 3:5 says, they have a "form" of godly devotion but prove false to its power.  And it is as 2 Timothy 4:3 says, they have gathered preachers to tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear.  Thus they learn that "as long as you love each other, it is alright."  These ones have watered down the very word they claim to believe.
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"major sin?"  What gives you that idea?\nYes, in the bible it says for a man to lie with another man is abominable.  However, in the same book of the bible (leviticus), it says women must hide from the world during their periods, and not be touched by anyone or they are all declared "unclean" and are to be punished.\nIt also says there that you should stone adulterers and fornicators, that you must offer various sacrifices of meat and blood several times a week...why do christians choose to follow the prohibition against homosexuality (and foist that view on everyone else), and not the other prohibitions and laws in the same book?  Selective enforcement at its worst.\n\nIn the new testament, jesus said that his new law replaced the old law (Mosaic law from the old testament).  His new commandment was to love one another, to do good to those who use you, to turn the other cheek, to not judge anyone.  \n\nHow sad it is that the vast majority of christians choose to ignore the person they claim to follow, and instead choose to selectively pick parts of the "old law" to use as their rallying cry against "immorality."  Jesus would be ashamed of those who do so.
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Divorce - leviticus 21 discusses not marrying a divorced woman, deuteronomy discusses not divorcing one's spouse as well as what grounds there are for divorce.....\n\nPiercing/Tattoos - leviticus also addresses tattoos, and I don't recall any scriptural reference to piercing exactly although leviticus does address "cutting" yourself.  However this was in reference to those who were marking their bodies for other god's.  So personally I don't think this means that current day "trendy" tattooing or piercing is against God.  (Unless your tattoo or piercing is done in worship of another god).\n\nJealousy - numbers discusses making offerings for jealousy, so it would be assumed by these verses that it is displeasing to God.  However the bible does give plenty of indication that God is a jealous God when his creation is bowing in worship to other false Gods.  Specifically there is a verse in Psalm 78 & 79 about it.\n\nRemarriage - see divorce response as this was addressed in leviticus and dueteronomy.\n\nSuicide - there is no direct mention of suicide in the bible, however some denominations consider suicide a form of self murder and therefore it is a sin b/c murder is a sin.  This is debatable and frankly open to interpretation.  Personally I don't believe in the whole "go to hell if you commit suicide" camp.  There is nothing scripturally to back that up, therefore I don't buy it.\n\nFalse Teachings - we are told to beware of false prophets and false teachings in several books of the bible including:  Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Micah.\n\nWitchcraft - is mentioned throughout the OT as being against God, specifically found in the books Dueteronomy, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicals, Micah, Nahum and Galations.\n\nSpiritual Gifts are addressed in many forms, sometimes specifically (1 Corinthians) and other times in the mentioning of "talents" given by the Lord to accomplish specific tasks. Such as those who were responsible for building the tabernacle (Exodus)\n\nUnconditional Love -   will have to think on this more.\n\nHomosexuality - God clearly states that he abhors it.  this can be seen in the story of Soddom and Gahmorrah and in a few other places where it addresses men laying with men, women laying with their kind, etc.  HOWEVER, this does not give room for us to hate gays.  We should still love them, because we are commanded above all things to love.  Love the sinner, hate the sin.\n\nThe Trinity - We can see the first address of the pluralism of God in genesis when God says "let US create man in OUR image".  This definitely indicates more than one.  Then through out the bible we see references to God the father, Jesus the son, and the Holy Spirit.  Jesus says that he was with the father in the beginning, he uses the name I AM which is also the name God used in the OT, etc.  \n\nDrinking Alcohol - Jesus made water into wine... and frankly it was a common drink of the time ... water was generally dirty and not good for consumption.  So wine would have have been used and even drunk by children.  Not uncommon.  However, the bible does address drunkeness and moderation. Genesis addressed Noah being drunk, Lots daughters get their dad drunk, etc.  In these instances being drunk leads to not so great things and is obviously displeasing to the Lord.\n\nPre-marital sex... Exodus discusses the pentaly to for sleeping with a virgin, this is a prime example of it not being favored by God otherwise there would not be a penalty for it.  Levitcus 21:13 clearly states the woman he marries must be a virgin.  Dueteronomy also addresses the importance of virginity.\n\nOther religions - or false Gods (taking interpretation of your question here) is addressed in Psalms, Jeremiah, Romans, 1 Corithinians, 1 Timothy, and more.  God clearly doesn't like us turning to false Gods, bowing to idols, etc.  In fact the first commandment we have is that there shall be no o
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Yes, it is allowed in islam and also in some christianity also. like in england one can marry his or her cousin, but in america it is not allowed.
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Yeah! i agree with you 100% and a lot of them that i've talked to claim that it doesn't "SPECIFICALY" say that its wrong in the bible and uhhh hello! Leviticus 18:22, "Do not lie with another man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." So my advice would be attack them with their own source of their job, the bible and god, also im pretty sure god wouldn't have song of solomon in the bible with a man and a woman instead of two men or two women. I mean c'mon people use some common sense! Like there was this gay guy and his bf that wanted to come to our youth group and we obiously had no prob. w/ it except it was really wierd and he claimed there was nothing wrong with it! HOW DARE HIM! i tried to not get upset and be respectful because its the devil whispering in his ear and ya don't fight fire with fire\n\n\n\n\nGod made adam and eve not adam and steve... lol sry, cheesy :)
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Leviticus 19:28\n\nKJV/KJ21\n28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.\n\nNKJV\n28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.\n\nNIV/TNIV\n28 " 'Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.\n\nASV\n28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.\n\nNASV\n28'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
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The Bible does not mention ************. ************ has been around for thousands of years - if God hated it, He would say so!\n\nThe Bible does say that God dislikes perverted thoughts about other people - so if you're fantasising about a married person whilst doing it, yes that would be wrong!!\n\nSome people are so desperate to 'prove' that the Bible disapproves of ************ that they misquote a single passage in the Old Testament where a man withdrew from his wife and 'spilled his seed on the floor' to use her and stop her having a baby that he'd promised to try for. Clearly that's condemning what he did to his wife - NOT ************.\n\nThe Christian life can be a very difficult one to live. When churches start to add 'extra' rules ("don't **********", "don't date anyone until you're 18", "no alcohol at all", etc etc) that aren't in the Bible, people always seem to break them. Then they FEEL as though they're sinning because they're disobeying the church - whn in reality, churches need to be very careful not to ask unnecessary and difficult things of their congregations.\n\n************ is not a sin BUT if it CAUSES you to sin, THEN you should stop!
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what is the reference of this verse. i want to read the whole thing before it and after it, not just picking a verse from the middel\n\nbut you are correct. we all are brother of blood, we should remain in peace with each other regardless what governments do. we all worship One God.
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Any who says "yes" to this supports:\n\nSelling own daughters into slavery\nkilling farmers who grown 2 crops in same field\nkilling women who wear material made of 2 different threads\nkilling children if they badmouth the parents\nNEVER borrowing boney unless free of interest\n\n\nAnd so it goes on, MOST of the above is from Leviticus by the way.\n\nSo ANYONE who has a credit card and fails to pay it off in full each month is going against the bible, ditto anyone with a mortgage.
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the funny thing is, the original text of the OLD testament didn't say anything about homosexuality being a sin either. the part that's commonly translated to say "a man should not lie with another man as he would lie with a woman, that is detestable" was originally mistranslated on PURPOSE when some homophobic church leaders got together to write the king james version...the original hebrew text translates to "a man should not lie with another man in a woman's bed, that is unclean". so basically there's no restriction on who can have sex with whom, just where they are allowed to do it.
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Yes the Bible also says this, but unfortunately, like everything else, it is often twisted around to excuse people's bad behavior.\n\nJesus asked that if a person could not love his brother who he has seen, how can he love God who he has not seen. \n\nOften a person will say, "Oh, well that refers to SPIRITUAL" brothers and sisters". I can treat my physical brother like crap .... and still be a CHRISTIAN.\n\nStrange, these same perverts want their kids to honor their "FLESHLY" parents, don't they? I call them pervert because they pervert Jesus teachings.\n\nTo these folks, it doesn't matter what the bible has ever said ... people make it up as they go along and change the interpretation of the scripture to justify their circumstances.
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If we are going to invoke Leviticus to condemn homosexuality then we must also remember that the Bible calls for the execution of homosexuals. Not only that but it calls for the stoning of disobedient children and adulterers. I wish that fundamentalist/evangelical Christians would not be so selective in their application of scripture. And to the guy who says that 80% of homosexuals have AIDS? Where on earth did you get such a ridiculous statistic? I've never heard such rubbish in all my life.
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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Find it in the Bible.  By the way, why is this question posted under Law & Ethics?
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Hey i think i have heard this one before too... but I'm not sure where in the Bible, but the truth is that the Bible tells us that we should not have sex before marriage or outside the marriage so perhaps leaving with the Guy in the same room while you are not married means there's more temptation of you having sex so as to avoid the temptation, you should not be living together!x
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Is sex outside of marriage a sin?\n\nFundamentalists would have us believe it. But the Bible is unclear. In Exodus, chapter 20, we read the Ten Commandments, and are told that we should not commit adultery. Adultery however is not defined as simply having sex outside of marriage. It's defined as having sex with a married person. Nothing is said to prohibit sexual relations between two unmarried people. In fact, if we look in the book of Leviticus, we are given a list of every situation in which we should not have sex. We're not to have sex with married people, or with family members, or with animals. We are not, however, prohibited from having sex with an unmarried person who is not in our family. \n\nA few people have interpreted Deuteronomy 22:13-21 to be against pre-marital sex, but when we actually read what's there we see it's about lying and bringing disgrace to one's father, not about sex. In these verses a man is given a bride by another man, and then goes to court to claim the woman was not a virgin. The verses then say that the bride's father must prove she was a virgin. If he can prove it, the new husband is fined for bringing shame upon the bride's family by claiming he was given a faulty bride. If she cannot prove she's a virgin, then she is put to death for being a harlot while still in her father's house. Notice that there is nothing said about the man not being a virgin, and there are no equal punishments brought against men. Why? Because this is not about having sex. It's about a woman who is still considered property, meaning she lives in her father's house and is being given to another man (in exchange for money), taking it upon herself to sleep around and thus destroying her value as a bride worth selling. In this case, the woman having sex brings shame to her family by making the father out to be a liar when he accepts money from a man who wants to bed down with a virgin. In short, while having sex outside of marriage is not forbidden by the Bible, the women not being honest about it brought dishonor to her father, which is a sin according to the Ten Commandments. \n\nAnother verse, often quoted by itself to condemn sex outside of marriage, is Exodus 22:16, where we read "If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall give the marriage present for her, and make her his wife." But when we look at the verse immediately following, we get a whole different picture. In verse 17 we read, "If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins." Just like the Deuteronomy reference we can clearly see this is not about sex, but rather is about destroying a commodity - a virgin daughter who can be sold for a price. In these Exodus verses it's spelled out even more clearly. There is no mention of immorality, nor is the man who seduces the woman penalized for having sex before marriage - only for having sex with a virgin, and even then his only penalty is to pay the father what the woman would have cost as a virgin. \n\nSome places in the bible, such as Mark 7:21, state that "fornication" is a sin. Fundamentalists like to interpret that as meaning "sex outside of marriage." It's not true. The Greek translation identifies "fornication" as being any "illicit (illegal) sexual activity." However, as we saw above, God did not mention sex between two unmarried people as being illicit. Interesting. And, in fact, we read in 2 Samuel chapter 5 where some of God's greatest leaders, such as King David (whom God called a man "after his own heart"), had hundreds of wives and hundreds of unmarried concubines (women kept in the house for the purpose of having sex). None of these were considered sins. It is only when David had sex with another man's wife (2 Samuel 11:1-5) that he committed the sin of adultery.