GOD RAPED MARY

[Losty]

IDK, it wasn't like he was asking permission.  He was just saying what would happen.

And she consented. This isn't jeopardy. Alex Trebek wasn't there to call foul because it wasn't phrased expressly in the form of a question.

Where does it say she consented and can we ever really know if she consented? I mean...it’s god...does consent count if the person you’re “consenting” to is a big scary all powerful being that gave you life and can take it away?

I would never call it rape and I think anyone who does is simply trying to get a rise out of someone, but that doesn’t make the pregnancy consensual.

[Minimalist]

But this shows, not only did god rape mary, but she was only 12-14 at the time!!! What is wrong with this god???

It seems that makes that pervert Roy Moore a True Christian after all!

[Catholic_Lady]

The story goes that Mary gave consent to a pregnancy by a miraculous, non sexual conception. Nothing about this is rape in any sense of the word. But you knew that.

How old was Mary again?

We don't know. Historians assume somewhere around 12 at the youngest to 16 at the oldest because she was engaged and that was the age when people got engaged/married back then.

[Minimalist]

Actually in that culture it would seem that 'god' owes her father some money.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29King James Version (KJV)

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;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
King James Version (KJV)

Pay up, yhwh.... and marry her!

[John V]

Where does it say she consented

Luke 1, as previously quoted.

and can we ever really know if she consented? I mean...it’s god...does consent count if the person you’re “consenting” to is a big scary all powerful being that gave you life and can take it away?

I suppose we can't know for sure, but reading the Magnificat (also Luke 1), I don't see how you can reasonably come away with a different view.

[Minimalist]

Of course, "Luke" is made up shit written decades, if not a century, later which kind of leaves you up shit's creek without a paddle.

[John V]

If I remember right, everything good that was told to her was about her son, not herself.

You don't remember right.

Luke 1
28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”

41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.”

46 And Mary said:

“My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
48 For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant;
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

I mean WTF, how does anyone come away from this thinking Mary didn't consent and only submitted out of fear?

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I don't see consent here. All I see is submission.

What would you see as consent in that situation?

[Losty]

Where does it say she consented

Luke 1, as previously quoted.

and can we ever really know if she consented? I mean...it’s god...does consent count if the person you’re “consenting” to is a big scary all powerful being that gave you life and can take it away?

I suppose we can't know for sure, but reading the Magnificat (also Luke 1), I don't see how you can reasonably come away with a different view.

Sorry, I was just skimming through. I must’ve missed it the first time. As a fictional story it’s easy to believe based on the words that she consented. Thinking of it as real life it’s hard to believe any young girl would consent to being impregnated by not-her-husband being that she’s never seen.

The story itself is ridiculous to me, though. So I just continue to view it as a fictional story. And I will concur that it was consensual.

@OP- There are so many easy parts of the Bible that we can point to and say “hey look, that’s fucked up!” There are even actual rape stories in there. I don’t see any need to add rape where it isn’t.

[vorlon13]

Was God's orgasm apparent to Mary ??

[I_am_not_mafia]

It's not unheard of for gods to rape women though. Zeus after all raped Leda while in the form of a swan (!).