What does the bible say about a relation between an adult and a minor?

tgkmjuqgjaey: What does the bible say about a relation between an adult and a minor?
im talking about a teen dating an adult. does the bible have a certain age range. or does the bible consider a teen an adult. is it a sin or not.

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Answer by Disciple du FSM
That was fairly common; a young woman would be married off to an older man.

Answer by Pete
the bible loves unprotected sex, what im trying to say is go for it

Answer by Caboose
In this situation, you should pay more attention to what the law says, because even if the Bible okays it, anything sexual between an adult and a minor is illegal.

Answer by Tuberoot
There is a word in the Greek which appears in the Bible called Catamites. It is often translated as effeminate or homosexual. But it actually means this:

catamite

–noun
a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.
https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Catamites

It’s yet another way for sin to manifest in the life of a sinner. Anyone who is engaged in such a thing is still able to come to Christ, provided that God wants that particular sinner.

If a person wants to come to Christ, they can. No matter what.

Answer by lordahzrarn
https://www.godisimaginary.com

Answer by Old Salt
If you are one in the scenario and your the teen run. If your the adult, God save you

Answer by SETFREEBYJESUS
the Bible says in Hebrews to obey authority

Hebrews 13:17(a)
Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account.

if its not legal, its not Biblical

Answer by Weis Nicht
You get legal terms about that…. in your country.

Well, for the bible… As far as I remember I do not remember a ” date” is there said as wrong.

And if you ask any other question you not want to ask here….
The Bible is written to learn about God. Theology is usually the term for that…

To find a boy or girlfriend… I think that was so far left to “Mother Nature” …
And in the time of the bible it was anyhow the way… that the woman did get a man trough the parents…( usually father I would think, because it was patriarchate.)

Except they was slave, then they have had no right…
Or they was free… but poor…. either they beg… or sold there body when they have had to.
Or they did die.

There was not such well fare like nowadays .

Answer by dewcoons
The Bible does not give an “age of consent”. Partly because the tracing of dates and ages was so poor that it was often difficult to tell how old a person was. Rather what it forbids is any type of sexual relationships between people who are not married (regardless of age). Marriage could only happen with the consent of parents (father) or the elder who stood in place. They would be the ones to decide that a relationship was improper.

Today, that would translate into the authorities (acting in the place of the elders) placing laws on age restriction, etc. And the parent being able to tell their child who they can and can not date.

Lets be honest… Why would an adult want to date a teen? Either they think they can trick the teen into giving them “something” that they could not bet from a mature and intelligent adult. Or they are looking for someone who is immature and thus controllable to keep under their thumb. Or they are immature and want someone to allow them to act like a teen/child. There is no valid reason why a mature adult would want to date a teen.

The Bible does not saying that adults dating teens is a sin. It does say that dishonoring your parent or breaking the law is a sin. If the relationship violates those, then it is wrong.

Answer by David Pratt
King James Version Bible

2 Peter Chapter 1

2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

1 Corinthians Chapter 7

1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.

2. Nevertheless, [TO AVOID] FORNICATION, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: LET THEM MARRY.

8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN.

Deuteronomy Chapter 5

16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Colossians Chapter 3

20. Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Matthew Chapter 15

6 And honour not his father or his mother, [HE SHALL BE FREE]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Proverbs Chapter 30

17. The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father, and despiseth to obey [his] mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Leviticus Chapter 19

3. Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.