What does the bible say about children born from adultery?

Question

Say a husband cheats on his wife or viceversa and a child comes from it...What does the bible say about the child?

Answer 1

That the child is not answerable to it's parent's sins.

Answer 2

Children Of Adultery

Answer 3

Dear Versailles,

The Bible doesn't say anything about the child. But the Bible does instruct parents to love their children and raise them up in the Lord.

In the case you described: the Bible does make a provision for divorce if spouses cheat on one another- but if at all possible the couple could stay together and reconcile their differences that would be ideal- so that the child would have a more complete family unit.

Remember that God created families and in Proverbs it says that children are a blessing from the Lord. The Bible gives specific instructions as to the duties of a parent: They are to love their children, instruct their children, discipline their children (all with love), and children are to obey their parents with respect.

God does not think any less of the child- and we would be wise never to do that. Usually their are consequences and challenges that arise for children from an affair- "estrangement from one of the parents, ..." etc. but thankfully there is no situation that God's love couldn't fix.

Hope that helps. Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 4

Those born outside marriage are condemned. See Deuteronomy 23:2 and Zechariah 9:6. But then the Bible mentions incidents of incest and adultery committed by those who included prophets and in some cases pregnancies caused are mentioned, but no mention of the fate of the issues. All these with some prophets lying or moving about naked make strange reading.

However, the issues should not suffer for the sins of the biological parents.

Answer 5

The Bible is most definitely against adultery as it is a sin. However, I have never read that the child that was conceived should suffer in anyway. It is not the child's fault that someone went outside of their marriage as you did. Also, the Lord does forgive our sins before we ask. The question being have you asked? And what will you tell this child later in life is on you, and you probably already feel the guilt.

Answer 6

God loves every child no matter what! The child can not help it the way it has been born. Many children have been born from premarital sex but that does not change how much the Lord loves them. He loves them all, even those that were thrown away and people find those poor little children that were found in garbage dumps because there parents were too much on dope to realize what they are doing.
Check out Psalm 139 He loves them all:)

Answer 7

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Answer 8

By Torah law, the only children who were considered to be bastards (mamzerim) were children born of incestuous relationships forbidden in the Torah as given in Leviticus 18:6-20 (in the Torah. Christian bibles may differ slightly on verse number).

Any child born of an incestuous union was a mamzer (a bastard) and was not allowed to marry anyone but another mamzer, and the child was on a lower level in the community than others.


A child born from a sexual relationship outside of marriage that WASN'T incest, on the other hand, was NOT considered a bastard (a mamzer).

**Only a child born of incestuous relationships was a bastard.**


How is Adultery defined by Torah law?

Adultery was defined for Married Jewish Men as:

1. A married Jewish man having sex with a married Jewish woman other than his wife.

2. A married Jewish man having sex with an UNmarried Jewish woman was NOT considered to be adultery.

Any child born of this union was considered a full member of the community, not a bastard.


As for the Married Jewish Woman:

1. If a married Jewish woman had sex with a married Jewish man other than her husband, it was adultery.

2. If a married Jewish woman had sex with an UNmarried Jewish man, it was also adultery. (Double standard there on this one, indeed.)


Married Jewish women whose husbands SUSPECTED them of adultery were not just taken out and stoned, as one of your answerers replied. This is yet another Christian inaccuracy and misunderstanding of Torah law.

If she was suspected of adultery, she was taken to the High Priest, who prepared "the Bitter Waters" in which also a piece of paper bearing the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) was immersed and dissolved. The woman was made to uncover her hair, and drink the Water.

If she were guilty, her stomach and reproductive organs would swell to the bursting point - and when that happened of course she would die.

If this did not occur, she was rejoined with her husband, and she was then immediately blessed by God to become pregnant.

Please note that NONE of this applied to non-Jews, ever. Only to Jews.


What Christianity has for what happens to adulterers and children born of adulterous unions, or even Christianity's definition of what constitutes adultery, is probably different from this.

Source: Torah, Talmud, me, Jewish

Answer 9

Nothing.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezekiel 18:20
King James Version


But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14
King James Version

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