In my previous blog posts, I've written my opinion on the timeline pattern of the Bible, the timeless and ephemeral elements within the Bible laws. If the ephemeral element of the homosexual prohibition in the Bible is indeed not applicable for today's Christians. Then, there will be a question on bestiality:
"If we say that Old Testament laws against homosexuality no longer apply, can’t we use the same reasoning to say that law against bestiality, or modern term, zoophilia, no longer apply?"
There is no doubt, it is not about the Law or prohibition. It is about the choice that our ancestor Adam had made before the fall of mankind in Genesis 2:18-24. Before woman was made, God offers the still perfect Adam a choice, and he had made that very first choice for the human kind. Therefore, God created Eve specially for him. It is the very first marriage that had confirmed that union of human-animal would be wrong. This is for sure because it has been made when Adam and Eve were still perfect.
Hah! God created Adam and Eve, not Steve! That's why homosexuality is wrong! Really?
The very very early purpose for God to create Eve, is for Adam to have a companion. A helper for him to take care of the Garden of Eden, and whole lot of things to do that God knows he need a helper for doing all the tasks. Just as the dyadic (two person) nature of Adam and Eve’s relationship was not used in Genesis to forbid polygamy (eg. King Solomon), so the heterosexual nature of Adam and Eve’s relationship does not forbid homosexual unions for the small percentage of the human population who are homosexual.
My personal view on this, that God permitted incest and polygamy, also He prohibit masturbation (Onan) and homosexual intercourse DURING THE EARLY DAYS when the main purpose of human on earth is to populate, so that there will be more man power to rule the earth. The process goes on during Moses time, God started to prohibit incest (Lev 18). Polygamy was still in practice. Until the time when Jesus came on earth, He brought back the original monogamy concept.
See, God is a better boss than any of the CEO on earth, He knows the importance of human capital and manpower. Talking about cooperate structure, if your company is growing and got a lot of sales and orders, you need to have enough man power to fulfill the orders right? Ok, now, when the company gets to the level of stability. What will a CEO do? Train the existing employee to be a better performers. In that meantime, you want your employees to stay focus and pour out most of their time to improve themselves. In the later stage of the stable growth, you want the working environment to be have the diversity.
As a conclusion for sure, from the very beginning of the creation of Adam, human already rejected bestiality because the animals are not suitable helpers. Some may bring an argument that animals are lower form of life, therefore, having sexual intercourse with them are degrading the human kind. I do have a different view on this. God's has shown us in Genesis 6, that it is not the degrading of human kind that angers Him. Human had sexual intercourse with the angels, which is the higher form than human. Therefore, the Nephilim was born. Those were the creatures God destroyed by flood.
So bestiality is not acceptable, it still doesn't justify that homosexuality is allowable. We will continue the discussion next.
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