[Roland]

Originally Posted by Miguel De Morillo

Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

That is a pretty clear answer regarding Godsavedmetwice´s action of exposing his son´s genitals to his family members. But what about the paedophilia you mentioned?

[Miguel De Morillo]

Originally Posted by Roland

That is a pretty clear answer regarding Godsavedmetwice´s action of exposing his son´s genitals to his family members. But what about the paedophilia you mentioned?

Matthew 18:6King James Version (KJV)

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Miguel De Morillo

Matthew 18:6King James Version (KJV)

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Good case. To make your argument complete I will add Matthew 18:2 as it shows Jesus actually asked a little child, not someone he asked to humble himself as a little child Matthew 18:4.

[Basilissa]

Originally Posted by Miguel De Morillo

Matthew 18:6King James Version (KJV)

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Define "offending." I will tell you this: Jesus has a different definition of offending than you do. Let's look at the Bible and see examples of treating children without offending them.

The Holy Bible tells us that male heathen children should be killed, while some female heathen children could be used as sex slaves:

Numbers 31:17-18
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

That means that killing boys and raping girls is not "offending."

Another passage to consider is Exodus 21:7-10:
7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

While this passage does not specify the age of the daughter that you can sell as a sex slave, if we consider that in that times girls were usually married before reaching 15 years of age, that means that you can sell a girl younger than that, and such act does not constitute "offending."

Bashing infants' heads into stones is not offending them, either:

Psalm 137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Finally, beating children is OK as well:

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Therefore, to answer Roland's question: pedophilia is not a sin in the eyes of God. A man can rape a little girl and that's perfectly OK. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any reason why an adult woman couldn't have sex with a little boy, if she got married to him first (there are no age restrictions for marriage age in the Bible). Now, if an adult male rapes a little boy, that would be a sin, but of homosexuality, not pedophilia.

Now, I'm not exactly sure what Jesus meant when He said that we should not "offend" children (I hope one of our Godly Pastors could weigh in on that), but we know for sure that He approved raping, killing, selling into slavery, and beating kids.

Praise !!!