Let's start with #1.
Perhaps a couple of thousand years ago it was "moral" to treat women as the property of their fathers. Are you prepared to admit that times, at least in our culture, have changed?
Of course, if times have changed, what use is the bible?
Quote:Deuteronomy 22:28 "If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife."
Perhaps a couple of thousand years ago it was "moral" to treat women as the property of their fathers. Are you prepared to admit that times, at least in our culture, have changed?
Of course, if times have changed, what use is the bible?