Why did man make the rules?
Probably someone trying to feel important and someone that wanted to impose control on others. Maybe they saw it as a problem that people were enjoying sex. I wouldn't be surprised if these biblical people were just intelligent manipulators that convinced gullible people that there was a god.
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That's one view, but is it really that simple? Are there reasons that people would agree to follow a set standard of ethics and morality other than sheepishly falling in line? If the rules are manmade for man, then the questions are why did man make those rules? What is good or bad about them? What would bring someone, or a group of people to agree not to do something?
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IMO, I think it's that simple. I think people were a lot less intelligent back then... more ignorant and easily persuaded into blindly following and accepting things without desire to learn why or question authority. You didn't have the open-mindedness and freedoms back then like we have today, so it was much easier to convince someone of something that wasn't real. Hell, they thought the stars were the eyes of gods. They probably had no idea what dreams were, so when they slept and had some kind of crazy dream about someone telling them something, they interpreted it as a "vision from god". I can't prove it, of course, but I guarantee you that's where all this nonsense stems from.
You have people now who strongly dislike certain things in society and want to change them. Fortunately for us, they can't just belt out some line about "seeing god" and have everyone follow them.
Let's just pretend for a minute that we're at year 0 and that people were as gullible as they were back then. You'd take someone who disliked something about society, let's say being a wage slave from 9 to 5, and they would go on and on about how it's going against god. Or maybe someone likes animals and doesn't want others to eat them, so they'll make up something about how eating animals is against god.
Maybe someone back then didn't like sex or saw sex as a problem and felt a random need to control it. People seem to have had an obvious habit of not minding their own business and trying to impose their will on others.
Either way, religion is a mindfuck. It's a big old guessing game that people live their lives around.
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To elaborate further, people back then obviously didn't know about reproduction. They didn't know about sperm, eggs, chromosomes, dna, etc... they just had sex and next thing they knew a baby came about 9 months later. This event was no doubt something that really stimulated their minds, and understandably so because humans are self aware.
Because of this, they probably viewed sex as "gods tool" to continue life on the planet, or some kind of divine act. It was probably appalling to them to see people have sex with many others, or do things like oral/anal sex, so someone fabricated a story about how "god doesn't like that".
Fast forward to today.. we know what reproduction is. We know that every animal has it and that it's just a part of life. It is no longer as "divine" or "special" as people originally thought it was... so all the moral (and biblical) rules about it being sin to indulge in sex are pretty much worthless now.