(December 12, 2012 at 2:05 am)Darkstar Wrote: On that note: when did god ever condem rape? So long as you paid the father, all was forgiven. Heck, you even got your victim as a wife!
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Just a note on that verse it does not in the Hebrew actually use the word rape. In the original it says if a man "takes" a virgin an they are found. The word take is the same word used in the following scripture for "handle" a harp. So there is no need to think the person forced, or raped the girl. The Hebrew just says "take". You can take a person and have sex, and it be nothing to do with rape. Some English translations of the bible are just taking things too far. They have just always thought it ment rape so they use the word, the word is not actually even in the original text, or any Hebrew text.
Gen 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
The CEV actually translates this verse more correctly as:
Deu 22:28 Suppose a woman isn't engaged to be married, and a man talks her into sleeping with him. If they are caught,
Hey I love God he is awsome.
