Leviticus 20:10-21 and Deuteronomy 22:13-30 provide explanations
of sexual immorality. The following sexual behavior is forbidden by
the Bible:
Adultery sexual relations with someone married to another
person
Homosexuality (Lev. 20:13) relations with the same sex
Incest sexual relations between blood relatives who are forbidden
to marry, such as parent and child or brother and sister
Pedophilia sexual relations with children (1 Cor. 6:9)
Preventing conception (masturbation), e.g., Onan (Gen.
38:9)
Prostitution taking money for sexual favors (Lev. 19:29); This
includes fathers who prostituted their daughters for money. The
Canaanites (Joshua 2:1) and the Philistines had prostitutes (Judges
16:1)
Rape taking a woman by force (Deut. 22:2
Sexual relations during menstruation (Lev. 15:24; 18:19)
Sodomy sexual acts with animals (Ex. 22:18; Deut 27:21; Lev.
18:23; 20:15)
Transvestism erotic exchange of clothing between men and women
(Deut. 22:5).
I asked another few Christian friends about these passages. This
is what one of them said: "u're reading old testament, that's when?
before Jesus come right?"
And furthermore, she directed me to some discussions where these
statements were made:
The other 29 verses of the chapter are largely ignored, yet two
seem curiously related. Verses 11 and 12 say, "Don't wear clothing
woven from two kinds of thread: for instance, wool and linen
together. You must sew tassels on the four corners of your cloaks."
One might ask why there isn't a great disturbance about the blended
fabrics commonly worn today by both men and women. And how would
the world react to tassels. How indeed!
Let's also note what else Deut. 22 tells us.
It tells you what to do when you find someone else's cattle (verses
1-4).
It tells you what to do if you find a bird's nest on the ground
(verses 6-7).
It tells you that you have to put a railing around your roof to
make sure nobody falls off of it (verse 
.
It tells you not to plant more than one kind of seed in the same
vinyard (verse 9),
not to hitch your plow to an ass and an ox at the same time (verse
10),
NOT TO WEAR CLOTHING OF MIXED FIBERS (verse 11 -- look, more
potential alt.clothing.lingerie content!! -- "Thou shalt not wear a
garment of divers sorts, AS OF woollen and linen together" (King
James version, emphasis mine), and
that your clothing has to have fringes on it (oh, how sixties --
verse 12).
It tells you what to do if a man claims that his wife was not a
virgin when they married, and what to do if he's right and what to
do if he's wrong (verses 13-21).
It tells you that adulterers must be put to death (verse 22).
It tells you that a woman betrothed to someone who has sex with
someone other than her betrothed, in a city, and doesn't cry out,
shall be put to death (verses 23-24).
It tells you that if a woman is raped in a field where there's
nobody to hear her cry out, you kill the rapist but not the victim
(verse 25-27).
It tells you that if a man lies with a woman who is not already
betrothed, they have to get married (verses 28-29).
Finally, it says you mustn't sleep with your father's wife (verse
30).
So I have to ask u, do u faithfully follow everything that is
said above? Do u avoid wearing clothing of mixed fibres? Does your
clothing have fringes on it? Do u have tassels sewn on the four
corners of your cloak? Should we put adulterers to death? Have you
put a railing on your roof? If u answer no to any one of these, how
can u then say that u're faithful to the bible as well? Or more to
the point, all of these passages from the old testaments, can u
really be sure that is what God wouldn't be too pleased with, or
just something humans made up?
Here's another paragraph from a discussion of the bible
specifically about the Deutronomy:
Now that we've put it in context (though for homework you should
go read a few other chapters of Deuteronomy as well), here's some
insight from a Christian perspective:
Most (not all) of the other Christians I've talked to about the
Mosaic laws have agreed that Christ "fulfilled" the law and that
Christ's law supplants Mosaic law -- otherwise Christians would
have to keep kosher, cover our heads at all times, not perform any
"creative acts" on the sabbath (note that this is interpreted by
modern Jews to include not turning on any electrical devices, and
that the sabbath runs from sundown to sundown (actually from
sundown to an hour after sundown, I think) Friday
night/Saturday)).
How many of the folks who're quoting Deut. 22:5 at you obey all of
that? Also, most of the ones who've quoted that verse at me have
been clean-shaven, and I believe there's a biblical injunction
against that too!
Anyone out there wear poly/cotton or wool/linen or wool/cotton
blends?
so are u clean shaven as well? thats against the bible then it
seems. Also please make sure u do not turn on any electrical
devices on the sabbath if u want to be faithful to the bible
instead of being hypocrite and only following or believing in some
of the things written inside.
