In Christianity, isn't God a pedophile?

[Anonymous]

After all, according to Christianity, Jesus is 'The Son of God'- and not just spiritually, philosophically or 'in a manner of speaking' either- the whole faith revolves around the notion that God directly, personally, and physically, impregnated the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus, knocking her up with his child. And the fact of the matter is that, when he's supposed to have done so, and engaged in his little baby-making session with the Virgin Mary- shortly after her betrothal to Joseph, but before the consummation of their marriage, in accordance with ancient Jewish custom- Mary could have been as young as 12, and would have definitely been no older than 14. As such, since their God supposedly had sex with (raped in her sleep really, since her consent was never asked for, and she was only informed second-hand by an angel the next morning, telling her to "Rejoice, for last night you were impregnated by God's seed, and will soon bear his son!"), and impregnated, a 12-14yo girl- well then, wouldn't that canonically make the God of Christianity a pedophilic child-rapist, since he explicitly raped the 12-14yo Mary in her sleep to conceive Jesus Christ? Wouldn't that make Jesus the product of pedophilic rape?

Yes, blatantly so

Kinda, BUT...

Not really, because...

No, of course not

BLASPHEMY! HOW DARE YOU!

[SmolKat]

Well its important to note that Mary was in fact conscious when the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus. She accepted Gods will and said "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May your word to me be fulfilled." Luke 1:38. God conceived Jesus through the power of His Spirit and thus we cannot compare this type of conception with earthly conception. We are not able to comprehend the perfectness of God's ways, but I do know that He uses the situations and people that we as humans don't expect to carry out His will.

[Anonymous]

God doesn't operate by laws set by any of earth's governments. Also, rape involves sexual intercourse but Mary remained a virgin. Now about the pedophilia... God chose Mary because she was pure, not because he had the hots for her.

[strateguy632]

he did not touch her.

[BrexitAteMyLobster]

Nope

[Asker]

How is He not, though?

[MixedDrinks]

@Asker because you are thinking of God in way too simple of terms, as if he were human himself. And by the question above, the laws of Israel had marriages for many girls at the age of 14. I'm not saying that we see that as OK here, we have way different values now as back then, but it shouldn't be considered pedophilia in either the physical or spiritual senses.