(March 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: If they work together; then there's no contradiction at all.
We have two conditions:
1-I cannot beat if I wasn't beaten (an eye for an eye verse)
2-I have the right to beat a woman (the wife beating verse)
One must happen, so two can happen.
No contradiction at all.
Wrong. The first verse called for retaliation (an eye for an eye). That is exactly what that means.
You tried to use the second one to spin it away from retaliation. Either you are misinterpreting something through cherry picking, the book is contradicting itself, or the second verse has absolutely nothing to do with the first verse.