(June 21, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Nope Wrote: I'm confused, what does training people over a very long period of years have to do with the verses Jenny used? So, a Hebrew virgin that might be very young, is sold to a man by the person she probably trusted most, her dad. Her dad knows she will be raped and used for sex and yet he sells her anyway. Remember, bronze aged people were humans just like we are. The girl would have felt the betrayal and pain that any person would feel in such a situation. Her life meant nothing apparently to this god because he was using her suffering was being used to train some future group. Is that what you are saying, Randy?
I'm saying that God worked with the Hebrews based on what they could handle at the time...not based on what you think of it several thousand years later.
Things that WERE permitted at various times in the past are no longer permitted. God was more lenient with the Israelites early on than he was later.
Even rape, Randy? God said that Hebrew warriors should kill entire villages and keep the virginal girls for sex toys. I've quoted that verse about three times in this very, very long thread. Why would god not just permit these things from happening but condone them? What good came of raping young girls who might have seen their entire family murdered by the same men that used them for sex?
Quote:Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
This is from Deuteronomy, a book of god's laws.
