Is pedophilia condemned in the Bible?

[Anonymous]

Serious question. Homosexuality is condemned. Transgenderism is condemned. Bestiality is condemned. But what about pedophilia? Is there anything in the Bible about it?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Not in the old testament. But Jesus did taught if you cause a child who believes in him to sin that it would be better if that person drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:6
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

In the old testament I believe God didn't bring up pedophilia in the books of civil laws for one
pedophilia is extremely uncommon (as a normal and healthy person isn't attracted to a little a child) and most children would have been in the constant protection and guidance of their mom or their mom's maidservant so no need to have a law concerning pedophilia besides the fact that a person would have to kidnapped a child to even do such a thing and kidnapping was a punishable by death.

2nd reason I believe (not that good of a reason) God left it out of the book of the law, pedophilia involves sexual attraction and molestation to a child who hasn't hit puberty, so that would be a child from age 0 to around 10 to 11 years old.

In ancient days teens boys and girls at age 12 or 13 where already getting married.

People had sex as soon as they hit puberty as that's the appropriate and normal time to began to have sex biologically.

In saying all that I'm sure if any case a father or mother caught a pervert sexually touching or trying to have sex with their little child all hell would broken loose.

[MrTaboo]

Well, yes and no. Yes, as stated Mathew 18:6. But, when read in context of the day. Kids become men /women when they hit puberty. And thus many got married soon after. Marry, Jesus' earthly mother was 15-16, some say as young as 14. Was going to be married and start a family anyway.

Today the age is 18. So the definitions have sort of changed.

[CountessSarah]

I'm not sure that the bible ever explicitly states that a character fucked a minor, but off the top of my head, in Numbers you have;

"15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

Which is a paragraph about Moses instructing soldiers to kill all the suriving Midian men, women and boys his army had conquered. But to keep all the little girls to... do what with, I wonder?
The bible is clear - you defeat a territory, you kill all the survivors bar the young girls who are to become sex slaves.

[WhatTheHeckkkk]

There isn’t a direct message saying, “we condemn of pedophilia,” but some bible verses might imply that it is condemned.


Matthew 18:6 - If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

This could be said about any harm done to “little ones” (children). Child abuse or pedophilia.

[Cyfris]

I mean the whole thing is kinda about making sacrifice of the self for the greater good and doing on to others in a way to be percieved as worthy of living out enternity in a land of the pure. I don't think there is a literal quotable line but more of an overall implication that doing bad things is bad and that bad shouldn't be limited to a carved stone.

[strateguy632]

Yes indirect. It is not a "command" but a definition. In book deuteronomy marriages are "men with woman" teaches age not minor but

[strateguy632]

But a "lass" can only betroth pledge to marry in deuteronomy 22:23.

[Msputiton]

Yes.
The passage everyone thinks condemns homosexuality is not condemning homosexuality.
It is condemning men sleeping with little boys

[strateguy632]

Impossible leviticus 20:13 punished both so it can't be a minor!

[genericname85]

yeah. that's why they say that one shouldn't have sex outside of marriage. cause people got married as early as 13. so sex outside of marriage would also include pedophilia.

[OddBeMe]

No, god actually commands some tribes to take the “virgin girls” for themselves and slaughter the rest.

[Agape93]

Nope