Is zoophilia okay?

Question: While searching on google the auto complete feature has led me to a topic that I find odd. The word was zoophilia, which is mutual relationships between animals and humans. This made me wonder if this is a sin because this is different than bestiality, due to the fact that both of them are willing?

Answer: The dictionary definition of zoophilia is “an erotic fixation on animals that may result in sexual excitement through real or fancied contact.” You seem to be assuming that bestiality, sex with animals, is something that is forced on animals, while zoophilia is a mutual sexual excitement between animals and humans. I don’t think that is actually a part of the definition or difference between these two terms. However, it is clear from Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 19 that God’s establishment of proper sexual relationships is found modeled in the Garden of Eden.

Given that model, any form of sexuality other than between a married man and woman is off limits. God designed men and women for mutual sexuality, no one else. Men are not to have a sexual relationship with men, nor women with women. Each is to reproduce after its kind and, presumably, have sexual relationships only with each one’s kind.

This fits with subsequent regulations in the law of Moses against bestiality/zoophilia and homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22,23), laws that are endorsed in the New Testament, as well (Romans 1:24-27). When we go against the obvious permitted/designed relationships for sex we are choosing to reject God’s revelation and are doing harm to ourselves. God made us the way we are to function best and no other sexual relationship besides that between married men and women will be healthy for our souls or our bodies.