3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Marry Them

(Copyright 2022) by David Rives (Lewisburg, Tennessee)    Yes, you read the title correctly. To introduce the topic of this discussion, I would like to begin by stating that there are many instances in early Biblical history of people marrying closely related family. Based on Biblical text it doesn’t seem to be a big deal. If we take the Bible literally at its word, this practice would have been necessary just after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, and then again immediately following the Genesis Flood. However, in the book of Leviticus 18:6 things appear to have changed. It states: “None of you […]