Are there passages directly prohibiting necrophilia, beastiality, and paedophillia?
Just out of interest sake, I’m not looking for excuses for my actions, honestly.
I’m not certain about numbers 1 and 3, but I know there is that bit (in Galatians, I think?) about not laying down with beasts.
And now that I think about it, I really should’ve just kept my damn mouth shut on this topic.
Sex with sheep is fun. Yup, I do love them sheep.
That was baaaaaa-d
Leviticus 18:22 speaks to bestiality, both for male and female. I don’t know of anything that directly speaks to pedophilia or necrophilia though.
Paedophilia I’m not so sure about, but bestiality is so taboo according to the OT that not only was the person in question to be put to death, so was the animal. In addition, the LoM has such strict rules about the handling of the dead that I’m sure necrophilia is implicitly, if not expressly forbidden. (OT scholars welcome to come correct/support/school me)
Hal’s been checking the Bible for loopholes…again.
It’s easy for him to do since the velcro gloves for the wool work equally well on other loopholes.
The taboos around touching dead bodies in general seem to me to be stringent enough that they preclude sex.
As for pedophilia, I really can’t think of any explicit prohibitions against it. Jesus warns against leading children astray, which you could probably stretch to include molestation or pedophilia, but I think he was talking about leading children into sinful behavior.
I’m fairly certain there’s a factual answer to this question.
I’ll move this to GQ.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB
Thanks, I was unsure if GQ GD or MPSIMS was best, so played it safe. After all Bible reading is a lot about interpretation, which might make one mans fact another’s heresy.
This is where such a thing as The Brick Testament comes in handy. It gives you illustrated versions of all the most “interesting” parts of the bible.
Bestiality (Leviticus 18:23, Leviticus 20:15-16, Exodus 22:18)
No direct prohibition of pedophilia that I’ve found so far, but prohibition of several things that are often the case in connection with it: incest is forbidden, of course, and if a man rapes a young woman who is neither married nor engaged to be married, and he’s caught in the act, then he shall pay the girl’s father fifty silver shekels, and he must marry the woman, and may never divorce her.
If, on the other hand, he has sex with, alternatively rapes, a woman who is already engaged to be married, then he shall be put to death. If it happened in an environment where the woman could have cried out for help, then she shall be put to death too.
Incest (Leviticus 18:7-17, Leviticus 20:11, Leviticus 20:17-19)
Rape ( Deuteronomy 22:23-26, Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
And also, same-sex pedophilia is of course strictly forbidden via the ban on Homosexuality ( Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13).
Oh, it should also be emphasised (even if it really is kind of self-evident according to the mindset of the old-testament-era) about the rule about fining fifty silver shekels and having to marry an unengaged woman whom one happens to rape, that this rule of course only applies if the woman is a virgin.
Nitpick was a virgin