{"id":58886,"date":"2010-06-01T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-bestiality"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T06:40:58","slug":"what-does-the-bible-say-about-bestiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-bestiality\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the Bible say about bestiality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p><span>Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><span><em>For half a year I have regularly had sex with my dog \u2026 I know it is a sin, but I can not control myself, because this relationship is much easier than a relationship with a girl and the sin is stronger than me.<\/em><\/span> <span><em>Will\u00a0God ever forgive me?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Implications of bestiality\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Your sin is a great perversion and it is necessary firstly to introduce you to what God says in the Sacred Scripture relating to this abominable practice:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><span><span class=\"google-src-text\">Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.<\/span><\/span> <span><span class=\"google-src-text\">(Leviticus 18:23)<\/span> (NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The penalty for the people of Israel of those\u00a0who were caught committing this sin shows its gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If there is a man who lies with an animal, <strong>he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.<\/strong>\u00a0If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.\u00a0<span>(Leviticus 20:15-16)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The man or the woman who commit bestiality\u00a0attract a great curse on them:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><span><span class=\"google-src-text\">Cursed is he who lies with any animal.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Amen.\u2019<\/span> (Deuteronomy 27:21)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>The alternative\u00a0you think about\u00a0\u2026<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Your problem is not limited to bestiality \u2026 You say that\u00a0you find this foul relationship\u00a0easier than the\u00a0sexual relationship with a girl.<\/span> <span>So, you mean\u00a0that you do not consider\u00a0fornication with a girl a sin as great as bestiality.<\/span> <span>God equally condemns any sex outside marriage and if you think that the\u00a0solution is to start having sex with a girl to not use bestiality, you are like someone suffering from HIV\/AIDS who would choose to \u201cbe healed\u201d by\u00a0catching cirrhosis, or tuberculosis, or anthrax.<\/span> <span>Fornication seriously affects life on this earth and in eternity.<\/span> <span>Therefore, God says:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><span><span class=\"google-src-text\">Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.<\/span><\/span><span> (Hebrews 13:4)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Can the one guilty of bestiality be forgiven?<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In the first Epistle of\u00a0John it is written so:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><span><span class=\"google-src-text\">If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.<\/span><\/span><span> (1 John 1:9)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Let no one\u00a0believe\u00a0that to confess sins means\u00a0just to\u00a0share\u00a0them and to go back\u00a0to practice them again.<\/span> <span>No way! <\/span><span>To confess sins is to admit what God says, to repent and to categorically deny from\u00a0these practices to\u00a0never come back\u00a0to them again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Word of God you can receive forgiveness for your sin if you <a href=\"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/how-to-enter-the-new-covenant-with-the-lord-jesus-christ\/\">wholeheartedly repent<\/a> today and if you do not go back\u00a0to practice it again. 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