WHAT IF GOD HAD NOT GIVEN THE LAWS CONCERNING SEXUAL MORALITY?
The Ten Commandments are great laws that are meant to regulate our relationship with God and our fellow man. The only commandment that regulates human sexuality is the one forbidding adultery. Other sexual sins are defined as such in the Book of the Law. What if God had not emphasized that incest, homosexuality and bestiality were also sinful? God dedicates all of Leviticus 18 to sexual sins. He prefaces the chapter by emphasizing that Israel was not to emulate the depravities of the heathen: According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances (Leviticus 18:3). God proceeds to forbid incest and lists all the incestual sins that they were to evade. He also made sure that Israel had no doubt as to where He stood in relation to homosexuality: It is an abomination(V. 22). He then forbids bestiality for both men and women (V. 23), a
