Thursday, November 23, 2017

Homosexuality and Pedophilia

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. (1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV)

The Bible only allows sex between married man and woman. Any sex outside this context is sin.

Homosexuality and pedophilia are both sin. Homosexuality is a sin because it is not sex between a man and a woman. The Bible has many verses against homosexuality, for example Leviticus 20:13. But the Bible does not mention pedophilia directly. The silence of the Bible does not means that pedophilia is acceptable. By implication, marriage is between an adult male and an adult female, not between an adult and a child. Matthew 18:6 has a severe warning against anyone who is a stumbling block to children, especially to those who believed.

In today's western liberal society, homosexuals are viewed as an alternate sexual orientation, not a perversion. We are told to accept them as normal. Refusing to do so is treated as immoral. We are not given a choice. In some countries, not recognizing homosexuals is a criminal offence.

Pedophiles, on the other hand, are treated as perverts of the worse kind. Wherever they are found, they are hated, shamed, prosecuted and imprisoned. No one is allowed to speak for pedophilia.

We choose our own standards of righteousness and follow our own perversions. Those sins we love we call it right. The sins we hate, we persecute without mercy.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20 ESV)

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. (Matthew 23:23 ESV)

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth. (Proverbs 30:12 HCSB)

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. (Hebrews 13:4 ESV)

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