Without Excuse: Apologetics Blog

If the human population only started out with two people, Adam and Eve, where did Cain get his wife? The most obvious answer is, Cain married his sister (gasp). Marrying blood relatives is a social taboo today, but there's no reason to believe it was a social taboo in our antediluvian past. The Bible only mentions three named children belonging to Adam and Eve: Cain, Able, and Seth, all male children. But Genesis 5:4 says that Adam had sons and daughters. Clearly then, Adam and Eve had other children that were not specifically mentioned. So, let's take a speculative journey of how many children Adam could have fathered. I used ChatGPT to help me work out the hypotheticals. We have a lot of unknown variables such as how long did Eve live? How long were her childbearing years? How long would she have waited to conceive between children? We can only guess here, so we're never going to know the exact numbers. For the sake of this discussion, let's make some assumptions. Let...

Homosexuality and gay marriage are a hot topic today . Up until a couple of decades ago it was never talked about and could even send someone in jail for two to ten years and/or a fine of $2,000. Needless to say a lot has changed since then and homosexuality has slowly become accepted as normal by mainstream America, and even the world. What hasn't changed is what the bible has to say about it: "Lev 18: 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" There are many verses i n both old and new testaments which conde m the "act" of homosexuality. I will not go over all those verses here, however it is clear by biblical standar ds homosexuality is a sin, which is called an abomination.  The Hebrew word fo r abomination is towebah , which means wickedness or abominable (to God). Comparing homosexuality to an abomination seems to distinguish it from other sexual sins such as adultery and fornication.  So w...