(June 24, 2015 at 9:50 pm)Metis Wrote:(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.
I've already quoted huge chunks of Dt. 22. And since she found chapter 21, I presume she can read chapter 22 for herself. She won't...because....but she could.
Metis- I appreciate your comments about the NT, but I own the OT, too. Becca's insistence on viewing God as a moral monster in the OT sets the stage that I must act upon.
Consequently, I continue to point out that while the treatment of women captured in war or raped seems repugnant to us today, the Law of God was nothing short of revolutionary in its day and a huge improvement over the other nations with whom God did not covenant Himself.
God does not condone rape.
