Authorities: 'Hopkins' Sex Acts Inspired By Bible'

Anthony Hopkins may have built a reputation as a preacher, but it's how he's accused of using his faith, that will now determine his fate. "The (unidentified) stated that when he first had sexual contact with her he explained that it was normal and he described to her and told her in detail the story of Lot from the Bible," Said Ashley Rich, Assistant Mobile County District Attorney.

A story from the Old Testament that Dr. Cecil Taylor with the University of Mobile says, is a tale about a good man who gives in to evil and ends up committing incest with his two daughters. "Lot has raised his daughters in such a sexually perverted city that it was almost normal for them to do what seems to us so very abnormal, "Said Taylor, the Dean of Christian Studies for the University of Mobile. As sordid as it sounds, Cecil says it is intended to have a moral meaning. "You have to be very careful as you read the Bible to avoid taking a negative example as a positive example and copying that in your own life,"Said Dr. Taylor.

Something that Hopkins allegedly did and Clinical Psychologist Michael Rosenbaum says it is characteristic of a sexual predator, to manipulate their victims. "They use whatever they can to influence the child to go ahead and engage in some type of sexual relationship,"Said Dr. Rosenbaum. While Hopkins stands accused of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing one of his eight children. Rosenbaum says he also abused his faith, to have his way. "He obviously used that story and arbitrarily interpreted it, as a way to influence his daughter so that she would think that his having sex with her was ok,"Said Rosenbaum.