[quote]TSuderman wrote:
Now it may be a bit odd to marry your nephew but, there is no mention at all of being forced into it. So we can set aside that example.
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Again no mention of force at all. It says he loved them. The wealthiest man of his time(maybe ever?) had many consenting wives. I think Bill Gates could find a thousand consenting wives with ease. [/quote]
Bill Gates is richer than Solomon, even if you adjust for inflation.
So my examples of incest, polygamy and cruelty towards children don’t bother you? Until it’s rape and molestation, anything goes? Ok.
[i]Deut 22:28 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;
Deut 22:29 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.[/i]
So if you encounter a virgin and rape her, you can pay her dad 50 shekels and keep her as your wife.
That God character is really hard on crime! That 50 shekels probably deterred every rapist in the land.
Let’s get back to that Job guy:
Job 19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Job would rather give his two virgin daughters to a mob, rather than two angels that came to visit.
The best part is that Job is later called, by Peter (Peter 2:7-8), a “just” and “righteous” man.
So God considers a man who’d deliver his daughters to be raped by a mob to be “just” AND “righteous?”
Then there’s Deuteronomy 22:23-25 where, if a rape occurs in a city, both the rapist and rape victim are to be put to death, the woman for not having cried out loud enough. If the rape happens in the country, the woman gets to live, because, presumably, there was no one to hear her cries, even if they were loud enough.
Truly, an all-loving God is a sight to behold.
2 Samuel 12:11 - Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
As a punishment to David, God has his wives raped by his neighbors while David watches.
Way to go, God! That’ll teach him!
Do you still wonder “which Bible” was used by the molester mentioned in the top article when he said he wanted to set up “a parallel society in which women and children are molested and treated like in biblical times?”