RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian?
March 8, 2013 at 12:03 pm
(March 8, 2013 at 1:00 am)EGross Wrote: Since nobody seems to really understand the verse, I thought I'd clarify it.
While I did say that it was a bad translation, I did not say that there was no rape. And for those who have studied such texts in the past, not only the language, but the style is also important.
OK, rape is at best a questionable translation. The passage says that he takes her, lies with her, and they are found out. Focusing on the taking leads some to see rape, focusing on they being found out leads some to see consensual sex.
Quote:Next, the man is not known to her. He happens to see her, he finds her for himself.
Yes, I was incorrect to characterize it as an affair. The situation is rather a first-time seduction.
Quote:The girl can never get divorced from him. Ever. He is a creep and she is his.
Yes, that was the case in all marriages. Women could not initiate or protest divorce.
Quote:He can marry another and cast her aside to live alone if he chooses,
Can you support this? The passage specifically says he could never divorce her, and a wife had rights to support and a sexual relationship from the husband, even if he took a second wife.
