[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Recently, we've been getting many emails from New Zealanders who are surprised and confused to find that the Bible bans beastiality. They are confused about the exact definition of beastiality, and why God condemns it. In particular, they want to know why God demands that the sheep also be killed.

Here is the scripture:

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast - Leviticus 20:15

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. - Leviticus 18:23

Now, God desn't just throw out rules for no reason. Here the reason is clearly stated -- because "it is confusion".

In John Gill's commentary, he explains that as follows

Originally Posted by John Gill's commentary

it [is] confusion;

a mixing of the seed of man and beast together, a blending of different kinds of creatures, a perverting the order of nature, and introducing the utmost confusion of beings, from whence monsters in nature may arise.

God forbade sex with animals, not because of some sort of PETA-style animal-rights touchy-feely liberal squeamishness, but for a pragmatic practical reason: we don't want animal-human hybrid monsters running around. For example, if a bull impregnates a human woman, she might give birth to a minotaur. Some may say this is far-fetched, but remember that the Bible confirms the existence of unicorns, satyrs, dragons, giant man-swallowing fishes, sea serpents, giants, cockatrices, and so on.

This is confirmed by the fact that God orders the beast killed - but only when it lies with a man:

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast - Leviticus 20:15

There's no point in killing a beast that lay with a woman, since that beast isn't pregnant - and thus, no monsters.

Originally Posted by typically perverted New Zealander

Did God not offer Adam all the animals in Eden, to choose a 'mate'? When Adam wasn't attracted to any, he tore out a rib and made eve. The Bible condemns man who lie with a beast in the same way as a man lie with a woman who he has not married, i think. Otherwise why would he have offered Adam an animal bride if he did not intend them to mate?

I am too humble a man to claim I can read God's mind. I'm sure God knew what He was doing. I think this gives us all the more reason to praise Adam, for it would be a VERY different world if Adam had stopped with the llama and said "this'll do".

Though I'll admit, some days when I'm persecuted by feminazis and uppity women....I wonder what might have been.

Then I realize that this alternate history would result in the entire world being like New Zealand, and I snap out of it!