Hi all,
I'm 25,& I know right from wrong.
My brother, 24 is dating our 2nd cousin,19/20(?)!
Myself, and my Entire Family is completely disgusted by his 'problem', and cannot understand his 'choice of actions', or even 'how' are they making this feel 'right' in their minds?
Is this not grosso & n.a.s.t.y?
I don't think it's anyone's business but theirs. We are all related to one another less than 50th cousins away. In fact, the Catholic Dictionary finds that Christ's parents-- Joseph & Mary-- were first cousins. Protestants come to the same conclusion.
1 out of 1000 cousin marriages in the US and 4 out of 1000 in Japan. Canada and Mexico allow cousin marriages. 26 states allow cousin marriages.
Society who judge are just unlearned individuals who need to learn more about our history.
Biblical Cousin Marriages
Each of the following individuals in scripture were in the lineage of Mary, Christ's mother, or Joseph, his "earthly" father, who were chosen by God to raise His son. Most, if not all, occurred (chronologically) after the time in which Levitican law was written.
Zelophehad's daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses. Zelophehad's daughters, Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, married their cousins on their father's side.
(Numbers 36: 1-11)
Milcah, one of Zelophehad's daughters, was married to her cousin Nahor. They had a grand daughter named Rebekkah. In Genesis 24:48-51, the story unfolds of how, against all odds, God's direction for her to marry her cousin's son Isaac (first cousin once removed) is made crystal clear.
Isaac and Rebekkah had two son's. Jacob was the son whom was blessed to fulfill God's prophecy that the descendant's of Abraham (Jacob's grandfather, Isaac's father) would become a great nation. Isaac instructed Jacob to marry a daughter of Rebekkah's brother. Although he immediately fell in love and became engaged to his cousin Rachel, his uncle tricked him into first marrying Rachel's sister Leah. Although God blessed Jacob greatly, Jacob suffered much grief and heartache for having married both sisters. Jacob's descendants became what is now known as the twelve tribes of Israel. (Genesis chapters 19 and 29)
In I Chronicles 23:22, Eleazar's daughters married their first cousins. Very little detail is given of this event.
What about those ppl who fall in love with the ppl who capture them!