Bible has nor rules about either.
I looked through the real open Bible project.
Went to "what does the Bible say about x?"
Type in "pedophilia"
With how upset Christians get at it, it must be in there somewhere.
It's not.
First result (ranked on "most relevant"/"closest match") is a quote of Jesus saying something like "if anyone leads little ones into sin, it would be better if they were to tie a millstone to their necks"
But the Bible never lists such sexual activity as one of these "sins", in fact, the Bible goes to great lengths to list off all the sins, but sex between adults and children isn't one of them.
There are a lot of sex laws, mind you, and they play major roles in the Bible's stories, but pedophilia isn't one of those laws, some of the laws are:
- sex with animals
- Men having sex with other Men
- Adultery, both the one who cheats on their partner and the one who they cheat with
- Incest, with both biological family and that of your spouses
- Sex with partners who worship another God or follow a different religion, or who are heretics, blaspheming God or taking his name in vain, or are practitioners of magic
- Not one mention of acceptable ages for the female sexual partner of a male, even though the Bible never shies away from anything to do with such subjects as sex and sexual partners
- Wives of men regarded as being holy and blessed in the Bible mentioned as being as young as 13, for example, the mother Mary of Jesus was only around 14 when she got pregnant with Jesus, even if that were a sex-free pregnancy, the kid still came out the traditional way, and he had a brother, James, who was conceived in the usual fashion.
Type in "lesbianism"
- surely something there as well
- less than the first, but more supported than pedophilia, as there was mention of women lusting after one another among the "unnatural perversions" god cursed a people with
- mfw the biblical case for prohibition of fuzz-bumping is stronger than that for kiddie-raping
Bible has nor rules about either.
I looked through the real open Bible project.
Went to "what does the Bible say about x?"
Type in "pedophilia"
With how upset Christians get at it, it must be in there somewhere.
It's not.
First result (ranked on "most relevant"/"closest match") is a quote of Jesus saying something like "if anyone leads little ones into sin, it would be better if they were to tie a millstone to their necks"
But the Bible never lists such sexual activity as one of these "sins", in fact, the Bible goes to great lengths to list off all the sins, but sex between adults and children isn't one of them.
There are a lot of sex laws, mind you, and they play major roles in the Bible's stories, but pedophilia isn't one of those laws, some of the laws are:
- sex with animals
- Men having sex with other Men
- Adultery, both the one who cheats on their partner and the one who they cheat with
- Incest, with both biological family and that of your spouses
- Sex with partners who worship another God or follow a different religion, or who are heretics, blaspheming God or taking his name in vain, or are practitioners of magic
- Not one mention of acceptable ages for the female sexual partner of a male, even though the Bible never shies away from anything to do with such subjects as sex and sexual partners
- Wives of men regarded as being holy and blessed in the Bible mentioned as being as young as 13, for example, the mother Mary of Jesus was only around 14 when she got pregnant with Jesus, even if that were a sex-free pregnancy, the kid still came out the traditional way, and he had a brother, James, who was conceived in the usual fashion.
Type in "lesbianism"
- surely something there as well
- less than the first, but more supported than pedophilia, as there was mention of women lusting after one another among the "unnatural perversions" god cursed a people with
- mfw the biblical case for prohibition of fuzz-bumping is stronger than that for kiddie-raping
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