Homosexuality, bestiality, idolatry, etc. all have individual, specific verses condemming those specific acts, not just generic "don't do evil" citations. Child sex and child marriage were rampant in the ancient world and widely considered o.k. (not evil), so people wouldn't have made the modern assumption that we make "of COURSE you don't do that", so if people were to know God didn't want them to do it, a specific prohibitation would have been needed -yet, there is none! It is a matter of history that the Hebrews married girls off at twelve or so, so it wasn't obvious to THEM that they were doing wrong, so what gives?!?!? How come God didn't tell them to knock it off...? (And no, don't go quoting be some highly generalised, generic "do no harm" verse, either... I want to see a verse that says "you shall not lie with a male of female child; it is an abomination" or words to that effect...)
2007-01-03
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