What IS good, and how do we determine it?

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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?


This is from Deuteronomy, a book of god's laws.

Rape? Sex toys? Did I miss that in the passage you quoted?

It seems to me that God was very specific about how the women would be treated by the Israelites. They became wives...not sex slaves. They were permitted a period of mourning before marriage. And if divorced, she was give freedom...not slavery.

Is this the way that other nations treated the Hebrew women that were captured?

So, God's standards for His people WERE higher than those of the nations with whom He had no covenant.

Seriously? These were young girls that just saw their families brutalized and murdered. The men that took them were responsible for that destruction and the girls had to marry those same men.

So, if a group of American soldiers happen to want some, young virginal wives then they can just destroy an Afghanistan village and take the girls as their wives? God said it was okay in Old Testament times, why not now?

It doesn't matter what the other tribes taught or did. Your the one who still believes in an all powerful, all knowing, ever present deity who can see into the future and is trying to convince us that your god is not an asshole.