Bible is always alive. This is what I believe. The Words are breathing, both New and Old Testaments. A lot of Christian will tell you that the Old Testament is old laws which we no longer applies. Some Christians even gave a very hypocritical answer, saying that it's both "Yes" and "No". Some would say that Bible is timeless and the Law is still applicable in this modern days...etc.
My view? It is a 100% without the "Yes or/and No". The purpose of Old Testament, is an information God left for us to take the Bible and the holy scriptures as a whole! Many Christian love to read and pick only a few verses. Some claims that they must read the whole chapter. I would suggest Christians should read the Bible in whole. Trace its root, understand the history of it and seek God, continuously! Because the Bible is alive and one person can never fully master it. Even though a person claims that he/she able to rewrite the whole Bible in his/hers own, word by word without error.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The reason I cited NIV above is because I've checked the interlinear and found that the word "breathed" is closer to the original Greek.
Ok, lets look at Bible as whole, on a topic of incest. It was written as a prohibition in Leviticus (Lev 18:9). If you know Genesis, Adam and Eve was the only two human existed on earth. Leviticus not existed yet during that time. The only way for Adam and Eve and their children to multiply is through incest.
It is a miracle, if you think with an open mind, you will discover that the whole Bible is actually supporting the science and evolution of human being.
We all know the biological cost of incest. Therefore, from the closest form of human being to God (remember, Adam is the first person created according to God's image), the children born of incest had reduced the lifespan of human being. Adam died at the age of 930 years old, and Noah at 950. The life span of human decreased starting from Shem died at 600. Then, Abraham at 175. Moses 120. Moses is the prophet who wrote the Leviticus and Deuteronomy laws, which introduced the prohibition on incest. Since then, due to various diseases human life expectancy reduced greatly. However, in the modern days, human live around 70 years old. By now, you should able to understand the logic behind such strict sexual prohibition was introduced. The history long incest has brought the evolution of human, significant for our life expectancy and racial diversity. Then suddenly God instruct Moses to stop the incest.
Do keep in mind that during Moses's time, hebephilia is not a prohibition. A girl who just reach puberty age, around 12 years old, were the right age to be married. I personally started to menstruate when I was 10, if my parents follow the marriage rule of the ancient time and got married, what do you think? Therefore, there are no prohibition on pedophilia written in Bible. Neither Old nor New Testament. Even though the similar term "pederasty" existed in the history, the word "pedophilia" was only coined in the 19th century. Sounds similar to the word "homosexual".
When we read the Bible and analyze it as a whole, I found that God is alive and am still alive in this modern days. His love to us is growing stronger and stronger. He has the ability to wipe out all of the disobedient people. Like what he had done during Noah's time. During Moses's time, He was angry, full of vengeance and He was violent. After that, He calms, forgive, and sacrificing His Son for our salvation. In the future, He will end everything, How about now? I do feel that He is in the process of preparation. Prepare for the day of the end, prepare a place for us in the heaven. (John 14:3)
By now, you may think that I am trying to divert the topic from my previous post about the word "αρϲενοκοιταιϲ". I am not trying to make the readers believe that the word suppose to mean pederasty. There are no mention about pederasty in the Bible. May be that's the reason why there are cases where modern clergy men practice pedophilia without fear of God? The Bible had explicitly describe the prohibition of sexual immorality between men and women, men and men, and men or women with animals, but never in the Bible describe about men and children. Does this means it is alright to be pedophile?
The answer is NO for sure. Back to my first few paragraph, when it is about incest, you notice that the moral code evolve. Same thing happened to the morality of pedophilia and homosexuality. During Adam's time, where multiply was important, incest was accepted be be moral. While during Moses time, incest became immoral, because the population has reach certain level. Reproduction is still important during that time because human capital is important to build the nation.
The main point is, the whole Bible had told us the both timeless and ephemeral condition! From total tolerance of incest, to total forbidden of incest. From introduction of the rituals law, to the final ritual of sacrifice, which is the death of Jesus. Of course, the Bible also told us about the timelessness of the Ten Commandments.
Bible didn't explicitly prohibits pedophilia. It also didn't explicitly prohibit necrophilia. Same goes to "Robophilia". I will talk about the future form of sexual intercourse next!Bible prohibits LUST, not LOVE! Amen!
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