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You are normal for one who is new to the Bible. Abraham also married his half sister Sarah. Abraham and Sarah both had the same father, Tarah.
Your impressions are based upon today's norms. The most difficult thing for us to learn as a Christian is that nothing is wrong until God says it is wrong. He is the judge and not we ourselves. He is the one that eventually forbade marriage of sisters and brothers but he did so primarily because as time passed men fell deeper and deeper into the consequences of sin having severed their connection to life. (And because men grew more and more wicked and without self-control.) Thus man's age drastically began to decrease and birth defects were made more likely by marriage too close together. But also because this would put man with his ever growing lusts on notice that he needed to get control on those lusts.
Your impressions are based upon today's norms. The most difficult thing for us to learn as a Christian is that nothing is wrong until God says it is wrong. He is the judge and not we ourselves. He is the one that eventually forbade marriage of sisters and brothers but he did so primarily because as time passed men fell deeper and deeper into the consequences of sin having severed their connection to life. (And because men grew more and more wicked and without self-control.) Thus man's age drastically began to decrease and birth defects were made more likely by marriage too close together. But also because this would put man with his ever growing lusts on notice that he needed to get control on those lusts.
It is amazing how much our culture, what we study, what our personality is affects how we see different facts.
If we looked at the facts of what God tells us from the mindset of the ancient Hebrews, asking to know the name of Adam and Eve's first daughter would not be worth even wondering about. They wondered only how they fit in with the facts, what were they to do about the knowledge. Notice, God isn't clear about just how and when he created the earth, and no one cared beyond that God created it until thousands of years later.
Christ seemed to uphold this way of thinking. He said that we need to become as little children. Can you see a little child analyzing all a parent tells them?
If we looked at the facts of what God tells us from the mindset of the ancient Hebrews, asking to know the name of Adam and Eve's first daughter would not be worth even wondering about. They wondered only how they fit in with the facts, what were they to do about the knowledge. Notice, God isn't clear about just how and when he created the earth, and no one cared beyond that God created it until thousands of years later.
Christ seemed to uphold this way of thinking. He said that we need to become as little children. Can you see a little child analyzing all a parent tells them?
