Does God condemn pedophiles or is this just a human hang up?

Question

In the Bible the ancient prophets took young girls as brides and even God was supposed to impregnate Mary when she was barely a teenager.

Answer 1

God condemns nothing.

Any idea of God condemning or judging anything is only an attempt by someone to create a God in their own image and likeness.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

They just reported another preacher who has sexually abused a child. Got to just love those who don't practice what they preach. *not!* It's very sad that even a preacher can't be trusted. Yes, I know they are human but still.

I honestly don't think anyone condemns it. As it was pointed out in another answers times were different when the bible was written. Now there is no excuse.

Answer 3

I think it is not a question of condemning.
The question is : are these children harmed by the behaviour of the pedophiles... Yes they are.
We don't do things that harms an other person...

Certainly if jesus said that love and peace are so important ... than he would also say don't harm each other and do no pedophiles actions.

Condemning pedophiles has no sence, we have to help them or at least society that they cannot harm other children

Answer 4

Well, first of all get your terms straight...pedophilia is the desire for pre-pubescent children. That is usually little kids. Pederasty is the desire for someone under the "legal age" but after puberty.

But back in the day...the average marrying age for women was very young...early teens. They were married and had large families. This was the norm. Children died of disease and people led hard working lives. It was more practical to get a jump on having children...plus her family was happy to have her taken care of and settled.

No, it's not what we consider to be healthy nowadays...but we really can't judge the life and times of communities that functioned 2000 years ago with our current perspective.

Answer 5

Jesus spoke some of the most frighting words in scripture regarding those who give scandal to children, `Better that a millstone be tied around your neck and you be thrown into the sea than harm one of these My little ones`
Indeed it is hard to think of a sin as hideous as to sexually assault a child and rob it of it`s childhood innocence, the penalty has to be severe for those who do this and never truly repent and so in this case Hell seems to be not so unbelievable after all.

Answer 6

Yeah, and back then if you lived past 30 it was a miracle. Girls had to get pregnant at a young age if they wanted to be able to have children before they died. Now people can get pregnant well into their 40s, so young girls no longer need to give their bodies up and can actually be children for a while longer.

Answer 7

God has condemned sin, all sin. It is the human"mind" that tries to make light of sin, and so can sneak it in undetected for what it really is. As we grow, we learn to be our sentinels at the chamber of thought.

Answer 8

Jesus said in Matthew 18:6
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

So I think it clear God takes the matter quite seriously.

Answer 9

The best solution is to hang them all and let God decide where to send them.

Answer 10

Her soul magnifies the Lord (Luke 1:46-55)! Think of what that means for just a moment.




Everything about Our Lady points straight back to the Father, Whose faithful daughter she is; to the Son, Whose mother she is; and to the Holy Ghost Who overshadowed her. There is no one in all of History whose relationship with God is as complex, fulfilled, and achingly beautiful as Mary's. She is not only the greatest of Saints, she is our Mother, as Jesus is our Brother and Savior. In honoring her, we honor Him -- and imitate Him, as we are admonished to both honor our parents and imitate Christ, Who loved His Mother.


Adam and Eve, immaculate from their first moments, prefigure Mary and Jesus, also without original sin from their conceptions -- the only four people immaculate from their first moments, creating a brillian poetic symmetry in Scripture. And as Eve through her disobedience, was the means through whom Adam brought sin into the world, Mary, the New Eve, through her obedience, was the means through whom salvation entered the world when she gave birth to her Son, the New Adam, our Savior.



Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.



It just strikes me as evil, this not uncommon attempt to diminish Mary's status and the unceasing accusations against Catholics of trying to raise her status to that of God's. There's something very sinister and ugly in it, and I find it offensive. We Catholics take great care in pointing out that "worship" in the sense of latria 3 is GOD'S alone -- even to the point of having separate terms for the honor and adoration due to God as opposed to the honor and veneration of the Saints -- including His greatest Saint, Mary. They are:


latria: the honor due to God alone
dulia: the honor due to human creatures worthy of respect
hyperdulia: the honor due to Mary as God's greatest creation and our Queen Mother



To love Mary takes nothing at all from Christ, but honors our Blessed Lord by Whose grace she is who she is: His greatest creation, the greatest of Saints, the Queen of Heaven, the Immaculate Conception, the spotless Virgin, the Ark of the Covenant, the New Eve, the mother of God, and the mother of Israel -- our mother who wants nothing more for us than to pray for us and show us her Son.