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The Israelites are instructed, in Deuteronomy
If you find out a city worships a different god, destroy the city and kill all of it's inhabitants... even the animals. (Deuteronomy 13:12-15)
Kill anyone with a different religion. (Deuteronomy 17:2-7)
Deuteronomy 22:28-29: If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. [a] He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,.... That is, meets with one in a field, which is not espoused to a man; and the man is supposed to be an unmarried man, as appears by what follows:
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, she yielding to it, and so is not expressive of a rape, as Deuteronomy 22:25 where a different word from this is there used; which signifies taking strong hold of her, and ravishing her by force; yet this, though owing to his first violent seizure of her, and so different from what was obtained by enticing words, professions of love, and promises of marriage, and the like, as in Exodus 22:16 but not without her consent:
and they be found; in the field together, and in the fact; or however there are witnesses of it, or they themselves have confessed, it, and perhaps betrayed by her pregnancy.
biblehub.com...
The verse you quoted is not about a rape, but a consensual act. Rape is a bad translation.
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, she yielding to it, and so is not expressive of a rape,
Other God's always refers to demon worship or Pagan rituals, often sexual, that violated the 10 commandments.
Other God's always refers to demon worship or Pagan rituals, often sexual, that violated the 10 commandments.
Please don't throw out those tired old excuses for the Hebrew's and their god's bad behavior in the Old Testament. There's no justification for genocide. Demon worship and pagan sex.....LOL
Would you be ok with Pagan pedophilia and ritual sacrafice? YHWH thought that Pagan incest, pedophilia and ritual sacrifice deserved the death penalty.
If you find out a city worships a different god, destroy the city and kill all of it's inhabitants... even the animals. (Deuteronomy 13:12-15)
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, she yielding to it, and so is not expressive of a rape,
originally posted by: DISRAELI
It's not really the case that God needs the praise, any more than he needs the sacrifice.
But the Israelites themselves, for their own sake, need to be willing to offer the praise and sacrifice.
Their actions and even their words are not important in themselves, but only in so far as they represent and encourage a state of mind.
That state of mind is a more conscious awareness of their true relationship with God.