(January 16, 2014 at 10:27 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Did Mary, mother of Jesus, have a choice?
She was told before hand by the angel Gabriel and she seemed happy enough about it. There was no actual sex involved of course therefore no rape just the implantation of the divine essence of whatever it was that went on I don't think we can know.
Quote:Did the Midianite girls have a choice? Did Lot?
The Old Testament does demand that rapists be stoned to death it's not really pro rape. It does have rules on how to treat your women taken as war booty but I suppose it's better than just raping them and leaving them to die which they otherwise would have done. Women back then needed husbands to look after them and put a roof over their heads anyway so I imagine they would have opted to stay with their captors if they were treated well. By our own modern standards of behavior we would still furrow our brows at these passages of course.
The rape of Lot by his daughters wasn't meant to be a good thing it was an explanation for origins of these tribes of people in the area of the time that the Jews didn't really like, they were born through the abomination of incest. There is some tribal propaganda in there.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
