Pedophilia; I can't accept it.

[Godscreated]

This in no way describes what you've read in scripture or was told about in scripture.

I'll admit that this is a pretty good point, indeed the scriptures don't portray violence. But it doesn't make it any less gross to think that 35+ year old's had intercourse with girls under the age of 14-15. Just because it's in a book that people believe only to be for good still doesn't make it all right in my opinion. It makes it confusing even; Pedophilia without violence still is, like you so well put it, revolting. To put it mildly.

Nevertheless Godschild, thanks for the reply and explanation..

Your welcome.
As you said in the OP, that was a long time ago and a different culture, actually many different cultures, and most practiced the same thing child marriage. Well that's the way we see it, and I too think it's a bit gross. Let's consider the times and culture, there are more women in the world than men and this was most likely the case then as well, also it was a stigma upon a woman if she did not have children. Even if she had children and had no males it still was a stigma upon her even though we know the male partner is responsible for the sex of a child. Man if they knew that back then things might have been very different. Back on subject. I believe this is why men married more than one wife in many cases, at least the ones who could afford to, and married young women (teens if you will) so that sons were born to carry on the family and it's name. Even though today we put a lot into family, then family was everything to them, I don't believe we can understand completely how important. Scripture does not condone multiple wives, God set up marriage as one man and one wife and after several thousand years I believe we now know why, for our sanity. So people apparently saw that the more opportunities for male children the better, again a very different time and culture.