RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 24, 2015 at 9:50 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 9:53 pm by Metis.)
(June 24, 2015 at 9:40 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Deuteronomy 22:25-27
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
Men died for rape according to the Law of God.
God does not condone rape.
Tell her the rest of that passage Randy, if you're going to quote a Deuteronical law quote all of it.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (NIV)
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
In this case they're more bothered about her being betrothed, not raped. It's perceived as a slur upon another male, theft from him if you like. Nothing to do with the dignity of the woman.
