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Quote by: zynner  I ran across this gem from Deuteronomy (22:28-29):
"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed [married/engaged], and seizes her and lies with her [rapes her], and they are found [oops!], then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver [whew! not too bad], and she shall be his wife [uh-oh...], because he has violated her [raped her]; he may not put her away [no divorce, bro] all his days [like...ever].
Here's my question to Christians:
Based on your Bible, and since your morality is derived from your god, do you support a law that says that any rape victim and her rapist must get married and never get divorced?
If you do not, then on what moral basis do you claim such a position?
~ zynner |
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This is an Old Testament concept, not a New Testament concept. Ask our Jewish friends instead of us; but I would wonder if it is not an error to read the Bible without taking the cultural implications of the day and age in which it was written into consideration. Perhaps there are symbolic or idiomatic implications between the lines.