Sex In The Bible

To further underscore the point that the Bible, far from being a guidebook of high moral standards, is instead a perverse collection of immoral degradation, we will now proceed to review some hideous sexrelated teachings and stories in this “holy book.” 

Incest In The Bible

The first troubling sexual passage we encounter in the Bible is Genesis 4:17, which says: “And Cain knew his wife,” which means that he had sexual relations with her. Why is this troubling? Because this wife of Cain, going by the biblical narrative, must have been his sister, which would mean that they were committing incest. Bible defenders try to explain this away by saying that this practice would have been acceptable—and even necessary—in the beginning, to get the human race started. However, this is not by any means the only time incest is referred to in the Bible. Rather, we discover that incest continued for many generations thereafter, and on an alarming scale at that. Here is a small sampling of such occurrences:

Abraham’s brother Nahor married his niece Milcah, the daughter of his other brother Haran. 

In Genesis 20:12 Abraham made an admission about his wife Sarah—that she was actually his half sister: “Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.” This was in direct opposition to what is stated in Deuteronomy 27:22: “Cursed is he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother…” Likewise, Leviticus 20:17 says: “And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter...it is a wicked thing…” If this was a “wicked thing” to Yahweh at the time of Moses, then it certainly would have carried the same condemnation in Abraham’s day.

Abraham’s son Isaac married Rebekah, his first cousin once removed, the granddaughter of his father’s brother Nahor and niece Milcah.

Isaac’s and Rebekah’s firstborn son, Esau, married his cousin Mahalah, daughter of his father’s brother Ishmael, while their second son, Jacob, married his cousins Leah and Rachel, the daughters of his mother’s brother, Laban. It turns out that marriage of cousins was not forbidden in biblical law. Funny that the great Yahweh did not warn of the mutational dangers of this, or denounce it as immoral. As a fascinating side note, ponder this pair of references to illicit sex regarding these three characters (Jacob, Rachel, and Leah): 

1. In Genesis 30:1-11 Rachel and Leah both battled for Jacob’s favor by giving him their maids as sex partners
2. In Genesis 30:14-16 Rachel made a barter deal with Leah—a night of sex with Jacob for some mandrake plants.

In Genesis 35:22 Jacob’s firstborn son, Reuben, somewhat committed incest by sleeping with his father’s concubine, Bilhah. Even though some would argue that this technically was not incest, it is still a disgusting story involving sex within the family unit.  

Genesis 38:1-10 reveals that the “sin of Onan” was not the fact that he “spilled his seed” (ejaculated) on the ground but, as was seen before, because he did not impregnate his widowed sister-in-law, as Yahweh had commanded. On account of this “sin,” Yahweh killed him.

Later in this same chapter (Genesis 38:11-19), Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, purportedly mistook his daughter-in-law Tamar for a prostitute while she was veiled, and had sex with her.

The biblical character Amram married his paternal aunt, Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. 

In chapter 13 of 2 Samuel, Amnon, King David’s eldest son and heir to the throne, raped his half-sister Tamar. Tamar’s brother, Absalom, learned of the incident and two years later ordered his servants to have Amnon killed. 

Another particularly disgusting occurrence of incest in “holy writ” is contained in Genesis 19:30-38. Here Lot and his daughters are depicted as camping out in a cave for a while. Before long, the daughters got their father drunk and had sexual intercourse with him, after which time each became pregnant and both of them later bore a son for him. Such wholesome family values. This sounds more like an obscene smut novel than “the word of God.” Not surprisingly, Peter said, in 2 Peter 2:7, 8, that Lot was “just” and “righteous.” Sure he was. 

Next we concentrate on the mention of incest in the Levitical law code. The most comprehensive regulatory segment of the Old Testament dealing with the offense of incest is found in Leviticus 18:6-18. Therein, sexual cohabitation was not permitted between a man and his mother, his sister, a granddaughter, an aunt, etc. (although, again, sexual relations between cousins was permissible). The most serious punishment for incest in the Old Testament was execution, as stated two chapters later, in Leviticus 20:11-17. But if incest was so strictly forbidden, with such a stiff penalty attached thereto, then why was it allowed on so many occasions in the Bible, such as those we have just contemplated? Keep in mind that the examples we just read about had occurred both before and after the writing of this stringent Levitical law code that forbade incest. 

Another notable issue to bring out here is the fact that the penalty of death for the offense of incest had not changed from the Old Testament to the New. Many Christians blindly believe that there is a stark contrast in the New Testament—that Yahweh became more lenient with sinners. But this is not the case (not that it would matter anyway, since Yahweh is not supposed to change, and he should never have been tyrannical in the first place). But anyway, here is what Paul said should be done with an incestuous sinner: “…hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.” - 1 Corinthians 5:5. Paul was so concerned about this man’s salvation that he called for him to be stoned (as though that would somehow save his spirit).  

Rape In The Bible

Just like incest, rape is a common phenomenon in the Bible, and it is not so frowned upon therein like most people think it is. On the contrary, it is often sanctioned, by either Yahweh himself or one of his faithful followers. Check out these references:

1. In this first passage we shall scrutinize, though rape is not mentioned by name, the idea of kidnapping women and forcing them to marry in order to carry on the “family name” can hardly be denied as falling under the banner of rape (though this story was discussed in a previous chapter, the passage containing it was not quoted outright, so here it is): “So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. ‘This is what you are to do,’ they said. ‘Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.’ Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the Lord had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So the Israelite leaders asked, ‘How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever. But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God’s curse.’ Then they thought of the annual festival of the Lord held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, ‘Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn’t find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.’ So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance.” - Judges 21:10-23.
2. This next scripture reference depicts a similar scenario playing out, only in this case it is Moses who personally approved of keeping virgins as forced sex slaves (“wives”): “They attacked Midian just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder [children as plunder?]. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. ‘Why have you let all the women live?’ he demanded. ‘These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the Lord at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the Lord’s people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.’” - Numbers 31:7-18.
3. Exodus 21:7-11 (a passage quoted earlier) talks about fathers selling their daughters into sex slavery: “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.” This is purely repulsive.
4. Our next example finds Moses giving instructions about how all captured women, in time of war, were to be forced into sex slavery, and not just the virgins: “As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the Lord your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.” - Deuteronomy 20:10-14. Did you catch the reference to children as plunder again, and how Yahweh told the Israelites to “enjoy the spoils of your enemies”? Could this not be interpreted as a “divine sanction” of pedophilia? But notice also the two alternatives that Yahweh listed for people in cities that the Israelites besieged: 1. Surrender to a lifetime of forced slavery, or 2. Be killed (except for the women, who were to be used for sex, and apparently the children as well). That Yahweh sure is an amazingly righteous deity. 
5. In Zechariah 14:1, 2 Yahweh condoned rape and plunder again, but this time against his own “chosen ones” (as a punishment, because of their rebellion against him): “Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.”
6. Genesis 19:1-5 speaks of two “angels” arriving in Sodom one evening, and of Lot greeting them reverentially, insisting that they spend the night at his house. We will pick up the tale with verses 4 and 5: “Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old— surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’” So what did Lot do? He offered his virgin daughters to them instead. He told them, in verse 8: “…do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes.” This, again, is the same man that Peter called “just” and “righteous” in 2 Peter 2:7, 8
7. A very similar story is found in Judges 19:22-30 regarding a concubine, except that the details are even more repugnant (which we also looked at previously). This passage reads as follows: “While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, ‘Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.’ The owner of the house went outside and said to them, ‘No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and my concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.’ But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door, and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, ‘Get up; let’s go.’ But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home. When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, ‘Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!’” Such a beautiful story. 
8. Genesis 39:7-18 provides us with the account of Joseph seemingly being seduced by Potiphar’s wife. But she later stated: “He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me” (verses 14 and 15). Now which one do you suppose was really guilty here? It seems most reasonable to postulate that Joseph tried to force himself on this woman. But just try telling that to a Bible advocate—good luck. 

The Story Of Joseph EXPOSED

While we are on the subject of Joseph, perhaps it would be a good time to expose him as the scam artist that he was, since so many Bible believers have such a “rose-colored glasses” view of him as a “godly” man (as though the word “godly” actually means something).

The book of Genesis introduces Joseph at age 17, tattling to his father, Jacob, about his brothers’ wrongdoings. Jacob was so taken in by Joseph that he gave him a coat of many colors that evoked jealousy in his brothers. They were also disgusted about Joseph’s arrogance in relating his dreams about his alleged superiority. For instance, he ranted about how the sun, the moon, and the stars bowed down before him. Even Jacob rebuked him for his pompous rambling. His brothers wound up hating him so much that they planned to kill him and throw him down an abandoned well. However, when they saw an Ishmaelite caravan bound for Egypt, they decided to sell him into slavery instead.

Joseph was then taken to Egypt and eventually sold to Potifar, captain of the king’s guard. Because Joseph was a fancy talker and a smooth operator with handling cash, Potifar trusted him as an overseer of his household. But one day, while Potifar was away, his wife cried out that Joseph was trying to rape her (as we just read about a moment ago). When the other servants came running, they found Joseph’s clothes lying on the ground, from whence he had fled. Joseph later claimed that it was he who was the victim, but Potifar, not trusting him, threw him in prison. Again Joseph used his craftiness to win the trust of the prison officials, along with the respect of the other prisoners, and wound up virtually running the jail. Also in the prison were several of the king’s servants. From them Joseph undoubtedly learned all the gossip and goings on at the royal house.

Two of the king’s servants, a butler and a baker, were both sent for a time to the prison where Joseph was. Before long, they had dreams that Joseph cleverly “interpreted” for them. The butler was eventually released and reinstated, and after the king himself had a disturbing dream, the butler informed him of Joseph’s alleged dream-interpreting capability. Once being brought before the king, Joseph told him that his dream foretold seven good years of plenty and then seven bad years of famine that were to come upon Egypt. Joseph then suggested that the king appoint a man “discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.” Naturally, Joseph was the one selected. He was made vizier, which made him the second most powerful man in all the land.

Over the next few years, Joseph gathered up and stored away vast amounts of grain from Egyptian farmers, and when famine finally hit, he hatched a scheme to massively increase his and the king’s wealth and power. As the starving Egyptians appealed to the king to get back some of their grain that had been stored away, the king told them to go talk to Joseph. Joseph then informed them that they had to pay for the grain, and thus he “gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt” (Genesis 47:14). Does this really sound like a great “man of God” to you, or does it sound more like a shyster—a scam artist—who was capitalizing on the people’s miseries? Today we would call this price gouging.

A severe depression followed, because the currency had failed. Here is how the book of Genesis records what happened next: “When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, ‘Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.’ ‘Then bring your livestock,’ said Joseph. ‘I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.’ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock. When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, ‘We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land. Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.’...[A]nd Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.” - Genesis 47:15-19, 21.

First Joseph took the Egyptians’ money, then their livestock, then their homes and their land, and then, finally, he enslaved them. The king, needless to say, was ecstatic with this arrangement. And at the same time this was going on, Joseph sent for his father and brothers and had them brought to Egypt. When they arrived, Joseph gave them their heart’s desire from the loot he had stolen from the Egyptians. Genesis 45:18 thusly relates Joseph’s summoning message to his brothers and his father to come join him: “And take your father and your households, and come unto me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.” In chapter 47, verse 6, Joseph further told them: “The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell…” And then notice what it says in verses 13 and 27: “And there was no bread in all the land [for the Egyptians]; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine….And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.” So, the Egyptians were starving and in slavery while the Hebrews were gorging themselves in all that they had pilfered from the Egyptians. Traditionally, passages like this have been interpreted—or, better yet, twisted—by Bible enthusiasts to imply that the Israelites prospered at this time because “God was blessing them.” Well, now you know the real story. And given this real story, do you think it was beyond Joseph to have attempted raping Potiphar’s wife? 

Even more disgusting than the Bible’s sanctioning of rape are the following “rules” regarding acts of rape:

• “If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.” - Deuteronomy 22:28, 29. What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? Answer: Yahweh, that is who. Is it not plain from this passage that Yahweh did not give a hoot about rape victims? 
• “If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife.” - Deuteronomy 22:23, 24. So, the rape victim was to be stoned because she did not scream. Forget the fact that her mouth would have most likely been gagged by the rapist.  

Bestiality In The Bible

 The Bible mentions bestiality in four different passages: 

• “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.” - Exodus 22:19. Funny that the Bible endorses other heinous sexual crimes, but frowns so heavily on bestiality. The death sentence? How about some intense psychological therapy instead? 
• “Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.” - Leviticus 18:23. But she could have her father give her up to be raped, like in the case of Lot? Or she could be stoned to death if found not to be a virgin on her wedding night, as we saw a while back, in Deuteronomy 22:20-21? 
• “If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” - Leviticus 20:15, 16. Again we must ask, as we did when we cited this passage earlier: If animals that were used for bestiality were to be stoned, does this mean that they were somehow “guilty” of “sin”? Actually, that is not such an inappropriate question to ask, because apparently the opinion at the time was that animals actually were accountable for their actions, and it looks like Yahweh believed this too. You may recall an earlier mention of Yahweh calling for the death sentence of both the ox and its owner if an ox had gored someone, as found in Exodus 21:29. But here is the real kicker: In Numbers 22:21-39 we are given the story, mentioned earlier, of Balaam and his talking donkey. The way the Bible relates this story, it is obvious that it was not intended to be a parable or allegory; it is supposed to be a real story of a literal talking donkey. So it is no wonder that animals were viewed in the Bible as being culpable in the performance of sexual acts with humans. 
•  “Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal.” - Deuteronomy 27:21.

Yahweh’s Fear of Semen

Believe it or not, Yahweh gave very specific rules on how to handle nocturnal emissions. In Leviticus 15 we read: “If any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall...be unclean until the even. And every garment...whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be...unclean until the even. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even” (verses 16-18). This was not a cleanliness issue, because individuals who got seminal fluid on themselves were still considered “unclean” until the evening, even though they had thoroughly washed their bodies clean. Why did waiting until the evening make a difference?¨

Menstruation Rules

• “And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness.” - Leviticus 15:19-30. So, one could not even look at a woman having her period? She was banished for seven days? She needed atonement for her “uncleanness?” What superstitious malarkey. This mentality ranks up there with the medieval practice of throwing a woman into a body of water to see if she floated, and thereby determine if she was a witch. 
• “And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.” - Leviticus 20:18. 
• “…if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, [he shall] not...come near to a menstruous woman…” - Ezekiel 18:5, 6. 

Why do Bible enthusiasts not follow these rules anymore? After all, they were dictated by their god. 

Rules Regarding the Sexually Mutilated

• “No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.” - Deuteronomy 23:1. Here the practitioner of genital mutilation was forbidden to enter the “assembly of the Lord.” However, as mentioned before, Christ was all in favor of this practice (becoming a eunuch—see again Matthew 19:12). And, of course, Yahweh commanded the mutilation of the penis through circumcision. 
• “At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him [because he did not get his son circumcised]. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said. So the Lord let him alone…” - Exodus 4:24-26. Here we see, as mentioned earlier, how Yahweh was so obsessed with circumcision that he was contemplating killing Moses over failing to have his son’s foreskin severed. Not only do we have to ask why circumcision was so deathly important to Yahweh, but why would he have subjected infants to such a traumatizing and agonizing ritual in the first place? Then again, this is the same deity that commanded the mass killing of infants, so it is not so surprising to see him call for the relatively insignificant deviltry of infant circumcision. But why would Yahweh have allegedly created the foreskin in the first place, if he disliked it so much? 

Polygamy

Polygamy was acceptable in the Bible for over a period of many centuries. It was not until the advent of the Christian era that this custom finally came to be frowned upon. What took Yahweh so long to condemn it? Yet, we must also ask: If he is a god that never changes, how could he have changed his position on this matter at all?

Take a moment to look at some examples of this marital anomaly in the Old Testament (not only of multiple wives, but of multiple concubines):

• “And Lamech took unto him two wives.” - Genesis 4:19  
• “Now Sarah, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarah said unto Abram, ‘Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.’ And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarah. And Sarah...gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived.” - Genesis 16:1-4.
• “But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had.…” - Genesis 25:6.
• “Esau...took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.” - Genesis 26:34. 
• “Then Jacob rose up, and set...his wives upon camels.” - Genesis 31:17
• “And Gideon had threescore and ten sons…for he had many wives.” - Judges 8:30.
• “Elkanah...had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah.” - 1 Samuel 1:1, 2. 
• “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel...‘I gave thee...thy master’s wives…’” - 2 Samuel 12:7, 8. So here Yahweh fully endorsed polygamy.  
• “Solomon...had seven hundred wives...and three hundred concubines.” - 1 Kings 11:2, 3.
• “And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.” - 1 Chronicles 4:5.
• “Rehoboam...took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines.” - 2 Chronicles 11:21.
• “But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives…” - 2 Chronicles 13:21. 
• “Jehoiada took for him two wives…” - 2 Chronicles 24:3. 

Even Jesus was not against polygamy: “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” - Matthew.25:1. 

As an aside, Christ had given some bizarre “counsel” regarding marriage in Matthew 19:9: “Whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” So, a non-adulterous divorced woman cannot remarry, and a husband cannot leave his wife except for adultery? What if the husband caught his wife trying to kill him in his sleep? But speaking of adultery, look at another bizarre statement made by Christ: “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” - Matthew 5:28. What heterosexual male has looked, or even been able to look, at a gorgeous woman without having any lustful feelings or thoughts? 

Paul spoke unfavorably about polygamy: “If a man desires the position of a bishop [or an elder], he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife.” - 1 Timothy 3:1, 2. One has to wonder how Paul could say this, when it is a total contradiction to everything the Bible had to say about polygamy prior to his arrival on the scene. But Paul had a contorted view of marriage anyway. He believed that it was better to remain single for the sake of “the Lord’s work,” or “the things of the Lord.” In 1 Corinthians 7:32, 33 he wrote: “He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife.” 

Homosexuality

• “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” - Leviticus 20:13. Talk about homophobic. Kill them? 
• “God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” - Romans 1:26. Look how there is no love here—no talk of reaching out to these “sinners” to “win them to Jesus.” They are simply vile evil-doers, and that is it. No discussion of them being genetically predisposed to homosexuality, or having struggles that they need support with, or abuse they may have suffered when they were children. There is no hint of compassion or understanding here whatsoever.
• “…do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy nor, drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” - 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10. So homosexuals rank up there on the sin scale with thieves, drunkards, swindlers, and slanderers? No doubt, there are some homosexuals that are scoundrels who want to push their lifestyle on others—even young kids. But most homosexuals are not like that. They keep to themselves, and a good many of them are not even proud of being gay. Yet they fall under the same biblical condemnation as the militant ones. Do you see how, even though Christians pay a lot of lip service to the word “compassion,” most of them really are not compassionate at all? To the contrary, they are all-too-often judgmental and condemning. They view everything as being either black or white, when a good deal of the time things are more in the gray

Are you ready for the biggest grand-slam irony of all? In spite of all the thundering curses against homosexuality in the Bible, it seems that Jesus and some of his disciples may have actually had homosexual relations. Note the highly suspicious passages that follow:

• “…Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, ‘Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.’ His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, ‘Ask him which one he means.’ Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, ‘Lord, who is it?’” - John 13:21-25. The disciple whom Jesus loved? Reclining next to him? Leaning back against Jesus? Is this not just a little bit strange? And why is it that Peter motioned this “beloved disciple” to ask Jesus something that he could have directly asked Christ himself? Did this disciple have a “special relationship” with Christ that Peter did not have? What exactly was the nature of that relationship? The fact that we are told that Christ loved this disciple clues us in to the fact that this love was of a different variety than what he showed to the other disciples. Thus, can we be faulted for concluding that a homosexual relationship was being implied here? Such speculation, to a Christian, is nothing short of “blasphemy.” But in light of all we have been discovering about the less-thanholy and all-too-contradictory Bible, why should anything shock us at this point? 
• “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!’ So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.” - John 20:1-4. Again we see this “loved” individual referred to vaguely as “the other disciple.”
• “Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord!’ As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, ‘It is the Lord,’ he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water….Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is going to betray you?’)” - John 21:7, 20. Why did this passage have to mention that this disciple was unclothed? And why was he unclothed in the first place? Do notice the reference here, once again, to this disciple that Jesus “loved,” and to the fact that he had leaned back against Jesus. Why were these details emphasized yet again?
• “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus [in the Garden of Gethsemane]. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.” - Mark 14:51, 52. How did a statement like this even wind up in “the word of god”? If there was no real homosexual involvement here, why include this in the narrative, knowing the potential for misunderstanding that it would create? And do recall how Jesus asked Peter three times in John 21:17, “Do you love me?” What was that all about? Christians would claim that Jesus was trying to remind Peter that he denied him three times. But maybe there was something else going on here. 

We should not by any means be appalled over the prospect of Christ and his disciples having been homosexuals. For the idea of men developing homoerotic tendencies who have committed themselves to a life of sexual repression is hardly surprising. Homosexuality has always thrived among Roman Catholic priests, for example, who have taken the senseless vow of celibacy. And look at how prevalent homosexuality is in the prison system, where men are forced to cohabitate only with other men, and are thus unable to have normal sex lives. Under such circumstances, the natural sex drive becomes distorted, and a great many of them wind up resorting to homosexuality.

But coming back to the Mark passage we just read, which talked about a young man with Jesus in Gethsemane who was wearing nothing but a linen cloth, scrutinize this quote from the apocryphal “Secret Gospel of Mark,” which was preserved, as mentioned earlier, in a letter written by Clement of Alexandria: “And after six days, Jesus told him [a youth] what to do, and in the evening the youth came to him wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan.”  

In further regard to the disciple that Jesus loved, consider John 11:3, where a messenger thusly informed Jesus that Lazarus was deathly ill: “Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.” Did Jesus also have a “special relationship” with Lazarus?

And then we have these strange comments Jesus made to his disciples, when talking to them about what would happen on the day of his alleged second coming: “I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” - Luke 17:34. Two men in one bed? Why did he even mention such a scenario?

This discussion of homosexuality in the Bible would be incomplete without mentioning the story of David and Jonathan. While there is no question that David liked women, as we have already seen, he appears to have swung both ways. 

For openers, 1 Samuel 18:1 says: “...The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” The word “knit” here comes from the Hebrew word “qashar,” which is usually translated as “bind.” In this case it would be “joined together” or “bound together” in love. It is used in this very context in Isaiah 49:18: “...and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.” 

Chapter 20 of 1 Samuel consists largely of an exchange between David and Jonathan. In verse 1 David asked Jonathan: “How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?” Then Jonathan replied: “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn’t so!” (verse 2). David then answered, in verse 3: “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.” The next verse has Jonathan endearingly promising David: “Whatever you want me to do, I’ll do for you.” Then we read in verse 11: “‘Come,’ Jonathan said [to David], ‘let’s go out into the field.’ So they went there together.” Such romance. 

To make a long story short, Jonathan promised to send David word in the next few days, after talking with his father, as to whether or not his father was truly planning to kill him. Before parting that evening, says verse 17: “Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.” 

Things did not go so well when Jonathan talked with his father over the following several days. Verses 30 and 31 say: “Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, ‘You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse [meaning David] to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you? As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!’”

Next we are told that Jonathan was very upset with his father. He stormed off and went to meet David the morning after, to give him warning as he had promised. Verse 41 picks up with what happened after David received Jonathan’s warning: “…David got up from the south side of the stone [that he was hiding behind] and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.”

Not only is this an extremely bizarre love story (bizarre for being in the “Holy Bible”), but it is very strange in another sense: Why did David need Jonathan to give him this warning as to whether his father was out to kill him or not? Why did he not just ask his buddy Yahweh to tell him? 

The King James Version renders the last verse we read (1 Samuel 20:41) much more disturbingly: “… David arose out of a place toward the south [from where he was hiding], and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.” If this is a more accurate rendition of this verse, then are we to assume that the words “until David exceeded” refer to an orgasm?

Finally, in 2 Samuel 1:26 we have David claiming that Jonathan’s love for him was “passing the love of women.” So, can there be any doubt as to what was going on between these two? Some would say, “Who cares if they were gay?” But do not forget that the Bible is, for the most part anyway, rabidly antihomosexual. There should not be any “hero” in the Bible—especially one that Yahweh called “a man after my own heart”—who sanctioned, let alone practiced, homosexuality. 

Apparently the prophet Daniel had this same sexual preference. For look what we read in Daniel 1:9: “Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.”  

Who needs Pornhub when you have the Bible?

The bible is the very first example of the Jewish porn industry from sexualizing a woman's vagina as candy to drinking your wife's cum during sex.

Song of Songs 8:1-3

• 1 "Oh, I wish you were my brother, who nursed at my mother’s breasts. Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching, and no one would criticize me."
• 2 "I would bring you to my childhood home, and there you would teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, my sweet pomegranate wine."
• 3 "Your left arm would be under my head, and your right arm would embrace me."

Song of Songs 7:1-4, 8-9

• "my sweet pomegranate wine"  Her wine is her vagina's wet and cum (audio clip).  He also did say that her vagina and breasts taste like "wine"

Song of Solomon 3:4

• "Then scarcely had I left them when I found my love! I caught and held him tightly, then I brought him to my mother’s house, into my mother’s bed, where I had been conceived."

Song of Solomon 7:10-12

• 10 "I am my lover’s, and he claims me as his own."
• 11 "Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers."
• 12 "Let us get up early and go to the vineyards to see if the grapevines have budded, if the blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love (fornicate)."

Song of Solomon 1:13

• “My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.” 

 Song of Solomon 4:5

• “Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.” 

Song of Solomon 5:4.

• My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.”

Song of Solomon 7:7, 8. 

• “Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.’ May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples.”

(Deflowering your little sister? It's all in the Tanakh/ Bible)

Little sister & mom's bed:

Song of Songs 8:8-9

• 8 We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

Song of Songs 8:8

• 8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?

How do you suppose this stuff ended up in an alleged holy book?

Yahweh’s Obsession with Nakedness

As mentioned before, Yahweh loved nudity and had a foot fetish: “Spake the Lord by Isaiah…saying, ‘Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot.’ And he [Isaiah] did so, walking naked and barefoot…[and] Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years…” - Isaiah 20:2, 3. Verse 5 further states: “…so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.”

Yahweh was constantly insistent upon his patrons baring their feet before him. For instance: 

• “‘Do not come any closer,’ God said [to Moses]. ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.’” - Exodus 3:5. 
• “And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, ‘Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.’ And Joshua did so.” - Joshua 5:15.

It looks as though Yahweh Jr. (Jesus) likewise had a foot fetish. The evening before his crucifixion, says the gospel of John, he and his disciples spent time bathing each other’s bare feet. In light of the passages we looked at about “the disciple that Jesus loved” and the reference to a “young man” wearing nothing but an undergarment while in Gethsemane with Jesus, this foot washing exercise looks all the more suspicious. And by the way, Just prior to washing the feet of the disciples, Jesus himself stripped down, as we see from John 13:4, 5: “He [Jesus] rose from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and he wiped them with the towel with which he was girded.” How utterly bizarre.

Check out what 1 Samuel 19:23, 24 has to say regarding the nakedness theme: “So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth. He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel’s presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, ‘Is Saul also among the prophets?’” How incredibly awkward, if that is even strong enough of a word.  

Aaron, Moses’ brother, also had a nakedness hang-up, as we see from Exodus 32:25: “Moses saw that the people were naked; for Aaron had made them naked.”

Did Yahweh Like Prostitutes?

Here is a very strange story from the book of Hosea: “When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.’ So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.” - Hosea 1:2, 3. What we are to understand from this is that, because Israel was “unfaithful” to Yahweh, Yahweh wanted Hosea to marry an unfaithful woman—a prostitute at that. Apparently this was to serve as an object lesson to help Hosea relate to how Yahweh felt about Israel’s infidelity. But does it make any sense that a loving god would put one of his loyal devotees through such a thing?

As you might guess, Hosea’s wife turned out to be unfaithful. No matter how he tried to pull her away from prostitution, he could not do it. He finally sold her into slavery, but then later bought her back, because of his love for her. And all of these miseries came about because Yahweh put Hosea in this position. Unbelievable.

In Ezekiel chapter 23 Yahweh again compared unfaithful Israel to a prostitute, or whore, going into very elaborate, sexually explicit detail. In verses 5 and 8 he said: “[Israel] played the whore while she was mine…men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.” Then Yahweh really got graphic in verse 20: “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” Is this type of explicit elaboration really necessary, particularly coming from an alleged moral deity?

Veneration of the Sexual Organs in the Bible

The Phallus 

With so much twisted talk of sex in the Bible, and seeing that the ancient Hebrew religion borrowed so extensively from surrounding religious traditions, little wonder that we encounter numerous instances in the Old Testament of phallus worship, even among faithful worshipers of Yahweh, which he apparently approved of (when done in his name). Among the pagans, these phallic symbols were called sacred pillars, or obelisks, but the Hebrews called them “masseboth” (usually translated as “pillars” in English Bibles. 

The first reference in the Bible to masseboth (or massebah, in the singular) is in Genesis 28, where we read that Jacob camped overnight in a field, and for his pillow used a stone with his folded cloak over it. During the night, Yahweh appeared to him in a vision and promised to give him the Land of Canaan. In the morning, when Jacob awoke, he took the stone and set it up as a monument, and dedicated it with an offering of oil: “Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar [massebah] and poured oil on top of it” (verse 18). He promised that, if God would help him, “then shall the Lord be my God: and this stone which I have set for a monument shall be God’s house [Bethel]” (verse 22). So here we have Jacob dedicating this spot and its accompanying phallic pillar to Yahweh, and Yahweh seemed to have no problem with this.

Later, after Rachel’s death, Jacob set up another phallic massebah: “And Jacob set a pillar [massebah] upon her grave: that is the pillar [massebah] of Rachel’s grave unto this day.” - Genesis 35:20. Interestingly, Masonic gravestones have often and long been in the shape of an obelisk, or pillar.

As well as for religious purposes, masseboth were also sometimes utilized in coronation ceremonies by the ancient Israelites. One place where we find this playing out is in Judges 9:6: “Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar [massebah] in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.” This custom carried on across many generations. Second Kings 11:12, 14 speaks thusly of another coronation: “Jehoiada brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him; he presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and shouted, ‘Long live the king!’…[T]here was the king, standing by the pillar [massebah], as the custom was.”

Moses erected some phallic monuments of his own, as memorials: “He [Moses] got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain [Sinai] and set up twelve stone pillars [masseboth] representing the twelve tribes of Israel.” - Exodus 24:4. In typical Bible hypocrisy fashion, the previous chapter finds Yahweh declaring: “Do not bow down before their [the heathen’s] gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones [masseboth] to pieces.” - Exodus 23:24. Similarly, Yahweh barked these orders in Deuteronomy 16:22: “…do not erect a sacred stone [massebah], for these the Lord your God hates.” So the message here is that phallic pillars were forbidden unless they were erected in Yahweh’s honor.

To further demonstrate that Yahweh had no aversion to phallic pillars, so long as they were dedicated to himself, this next scripture is offered, where Isaiah wrote these words of anticipation: “In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument [massebah] to the Lord at its border.” - Isaiah 19:19. Also, in the book of Hosea, the following Yahweh-inflicted punishment for the Israelites is mentioned, which was prompted by their rebellious ways: “The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar [massebah]…” (3:4). In other words, Yahweh was disciplinarily promising the removal of Israel’s cherished phallic pillars (the ones that he approved of). Hosea provides us with further proof that Yahweh sanctioned the use of certain phallic pillars, because he mentioned Israel’s “sacred pillars” (masseboth) in Hosea 10:1. 

The Vagina

Like with the religions of the surrounding pagan cultures, the ancient Hebrew religion also involved veneration of the female sex organ in the form of what were called “asherim” (asherah in the singular form). These were stone representations of the vagina, and archaeologists have actually found several of them over the years, which were made by the Canaanites and the Assyrians. 

The word “asherah,” as you may recall, was originally the name of the wife of the Ugaritic deity El. It was also the name of the wife of the Shasu god Yahweh (this name having later been applied by the Hebrews to their own god). But when used in the Old Testament, this word refers exclusively to feminine stone altars. However, it is not so easily recognizable as such in today’s Bibles, since it is misleadingly mistranslated in most modern versions thereof as either “groves” or “tamarisk trees.”

The first biblical mention of the word “asherah” is in Genesis 21:33: “And Abraham planted a grove [asherah] in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.” Here we detect a sense of religious solemnity associated with this asherah, which Yahweh did not object to. But, sure enough, when an asherah was set up in the name of another god, it was then, and only then, that Yahweh became irate: “For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves [asherim], provoking the Lord to anger.” - 1 Kings 14:15. These asherim were being created to honor “false gods” like Baal, as we see from 1 Kings 16:33: “And Ahab served Baal, and made a grove [asherah].” This practice had grown quite prevalent among the Israelites, who “set…up images and groves [asherim] in every high hill, and under every green tree.” - 2 Kings 17:10.

In ancient Israel, “heathen” asherim had sometimes found their way into the temple, one example of which is recorded in 2 Kings 23:4: “And the king [Josiah] commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove [asherah], and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without [outside of] Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.” We discover from verse 7 that this asherah, a symbol of unbridled sexual activity, was associated with the practice of temple prostitution right there in Yahweh’s temple: “He [King Josiah] also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for [a covering placed over the] Asherah.” Minus the temple prostitution factor (although that is debatable), Yahweh would have had no problem with asherim in his temple, as long as they were dedicated to himself, instead of Baal. 

It should now be crystal clear that the archaic Hebrew culture had adopted the sexually-oriented religious beliefs and practices of the Canaanites and Assyrians, and that their deity was portrayed as being accepting of this, as long as no other gods were involved in the equation.