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Question

Does the Bible actually condemn pedophilia anywhere? Can anybody provide scriptural support?

~atheist~

Answer 1

Well Christ said of children in Mark and Luke:
Mar 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Luk 17:2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

So that sums it up in my book.

Answer 2

I would say that they are sexual immoral

1 Corinthians 5:9
I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Hebrews 12:16
See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.

Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Answer 3

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines “pedophilia” as “sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object.” Aspects of this practice are condemned at Deuteronomy 23:17, 18. There God spoke against becoming a temple prostitute (“or, ‘a catamite,’ a boy kept for purposes of sexual perversion,”). These verses also forbid anyone to bring into “the house of Jehovah” the price of “a dog” (“likely a pederast; one who practices anal intercourse, especially with a boy,”). These Scriptural and secular references establish a child being made the object of sexual abuse, including fondling, by an adult.

Answer 4

Leviticus chapter 17 gives a detailed list of sexual relationships that are forbidden.
Genesis chapter 34 tells the story of Dinah. She was defiled by sex outside of marriage. I believe that pedophilia would be the same defilement, outside of marriage. Also children are not equals to adults and can not be seen as consenting because of maturity level. Marriage to a child was unthinkable. Yes, they married young 14, 15 years old. But usually bride and groom we of like age, not a gross mismatch as in pedophilia.

1 Corinthians 6:9-7:40 speaks much about sexual relationships. Speaking approvingly only in the context of marriage.

We are exhorted elsewhere in the NT (Hebrews 13:4) to keep the marriage bed pure. Most people in those days were married of by their families upon reaching the appropriate age, so this would leave no opportunity to have a pedophile relationship while keeping the marriage bed pure. Impossible.

The only context were sex is deemed appropriate Biblically is in the context of a married man and wife.

Aside from the above evidence, any follower of Jesus with the Spirit of Jesus living in them would think such acts as unconscionable. The very nature of Jesus, His kindness, love, purity, mercy, truth, righteousness, tenderness... would never allow such abuse of children.

Answer 5

"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" Colosians 3:5

"Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful..."Romans 1:31

"Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.."2 Timothy 3:3

You may like to look these up to see the outcome of those who practice such behavior but its not good.

Answer 6

you're confusing getting "stump broke" to the present video clips that are popularizing it. i'm afraid to tell you, so which you will ought to observe "Broke-back Mountain", and in line with possibility the sequel "Saddle-sore Canyon". The sound song replaced into great on "Saddle-sore Canyon", .......... "back interior the Saddle back", "do not permit Me go Over", "Burning Ring of hearth", stuff like that.

Answer 7

Protect Your Children!
Your Child Is in Danger!


Let Us Abhor What Is Wicked
Comfort for Those With a "Stricken Spirit"
Child Molesting—You Can Protect Your Child
The molestation of children is an ugly reality in this sick world. Lear's magazine said: "It affects more of us than cancer, more of us than heart disease, more of us than AIDS." Awake! thus feels an obligation to try to alert its readers to this danger and what can be done about it.—Compare Ezekiel 3:17-21; Romans 13:11-13.


IN RECENT years a global outcry has arisen over the molestation of children. But the media attention, replete with celebrities who have publicly disclosed their own experiences of childhood abuse, has led to some popular misconceptions. Some believe that all this talk about attacks on children is simply the latest fad. In truth, though, there is little new about such sexual assault. It is nearly as old as human history itself.

An Ancient Problem
Some 4,000 years ago, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were famous for depravity. Pedophilia was apparently among the region's many vices. Genesis 19:4 describes a sex-crazed mob of Sodomites ranging "from boy to old man" seeking to rape Lot's two male guests. Consider: Why would mere boys be inflamed with the idea of raping males? Clearly they had already been introduced to homosexual perversions.

Centuries later, the nation of Israel moved into the region of Canaan. So steeped was this land in incest, sodomy, bestiality, prostitution, and even the ritualized sacrifice of little children to demon gods that all these vile acts had to be expressly forbidden in the Mosaic Law. (Leviticus 18:6, 21-23; 19:29; Jeremiah 32:35) Despite divine warnings, rebellious Israelites, including some of their rulers, adopted these despicable practices.—Psalm 106:35-38.

Ancient Greece and Rome, however, were far worse than Israel in this regard. Infanticide was common to both, and in Greece it was a widely accepted practice for older men to have relations with young boys. Boy brothels flourished in every ancient Greek city. In the Roman Empire, child prostitution was so prevalent that special taxes and holidays were set up specifically for that trade. In the arenas, girls were raped and forced into acts of bestiality. Similar atrocities were prevalent in many other ancient nations.

What about modern times? Is mankind too civilized for such horrible sex acts to flourish today? Students of the Bible cannot accept this notion. They well know that the apostle Paul characterized our era as "critical times hard to deal with." He detailed the rampant self-love, the love of pleasure, and the disintegration of natural family love that overrun modern society and added: "Wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse." (2 Timothy 3:1-5, 13; Revelation 12:7-12) Has child molestation, so often perpetrated by "wicked men and impostors," got worse?

An Urgent Problem

Assaults on children are often cloaked in secrecy, so much so that they have been called perhaps the most unreported of crimes. Even so, such crimes have evidently spiraled upward in recent decades. In the United States, a survey on the subject was conducted by the Los Angeles Times. It found that 27 percent of the women and 16 percent of the men had been sexually abused as children. Shocking as these statistics are, other careful estimates for the United States have run considerably higher.

In Malaysia, reports of child molestation have quadrupled over the past decade. In Thailand, some 75 percent of the men in one survey admitted to using child prostitutes. In Germany, officials estimate that as many as 300,000 children are sexually abused each year. According to South Africa's Cape Times, the number of reports of such assaults soared by 175 percent in a recent three-year period. In the Netherlands and Canada, researchers found that about one third of all women had been sexually abused as children. In Finland, 18 percent of the ninth-grade girls (15 or 16 years old) and 7 percent of the boys reported having had sexual contact with someone at least five years their senior.

In various countries disturbing reports have surfaced about religious cults that abuse children with sadistic sexual practices and torture. Often, those who report that they were victims of such crimes are treated with incredulity, not compassion.

So child molestation is neither new nor rare; it is a long-standing problem that is epidemic today. Its impact can be devastating. Many survivors suffer profound feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem. Experts in the field have listed some common aftereffects of incest on girls, such as running away, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, attempted suicide, delinquency, promiscuity, sleep disturbances, and learning problems. Long-range effects may include poor parenting skills, frigidity, distrust of men, marriage to a pedophile, lesbianism, prostitution, and child molestation itself.

These aftereffects are not inevitable for a victim; nor could anyone rightly excuse wrong conduct solely on the grounds of having been assaulted in the past. Abuse does not predestine its victims to be immoral or delinquent; nor does it dissolve all their personal responsibility for the choices they make later in life. But these common outcomes for victims are real dangers. They add urgency to the question, How can we protect children from molestation?

Answer 8

No that is why the Catholic Priests have gotten away with it for years. Plus they pic and choose the parts they want the listeners to hear

Answer 9

Hmmmm. I think I will look deeper into this.... thanks...... go in peace...... God bless