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To be exact, “godly children”.
And why did the laws have nothing more specific? For exactly the same reason that the Pentateuch contains no legislation about driving articulated lorries at high speed in a residential area. In both cases, nobody was doing it at the time, so the subject did not come up.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
God had no problem killing unborn children in his great flood. God had no problems killing the unborn of the ungodly tribes that didn't acquiesce to his people's invasions
or burning a pregnant adulteress or whore alive
If a husband had a hunch his wife's pregnancy wasn't his progeny, there was an abortive remedy for that too.
Abortion is as old time. Women have been using herbs and metal wires to abort before and during the biblical days.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
To be exact, “godly children”.
Right. God had no problem killing unborn children in his great flood. God had no problems killing the unborn of the ungodly tribes that didn't acquiesce to his people's invasions, or burning a pregnant adulteress or whore alive, or stoning a fornicating couple, regardless of any concern that the woman may have been with child, or forcing a woman to marry her rapist, for that matter. If a husband had a hunch his wife's pregnancy wasn't his progeny, there was an abortive remedy for that too.
And why did the laws have nothing more specific? For exactly the same reason that the Pentateuch contains no legislation about driving articulated lorries at high speed in a residential area. In both cases, nobody was doing it at the time, so the subject did not come up.
Nonsense. Abortion is as old time. Women have been using herbs and metal wires to abort before and during the biblical days.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
Also need you to cite book, chapter and verse where God forces or prescribes forcing a woman to marry her rapist. .
Right. God had no problem killing unborn children in his great flood. God had no problems killing the unborn of the ungodly tribes that didn't acquiesce to his people's invasions, or burning a pregnant adulteress or whore alive, or stoning a fornicating couple, regardless of any concern that the woman may have been with child, or forcing a woman to marry her rapist, for that matter. If a husband had a hunch his wife's pregnancy wasn't his progeny, there was an abortive remedy for that too.
The children in these suppositions are potential, not-yet-conceived, which is not the same thing. And the quotation specifies "godly" children.
Not a penalty I remember from the Old Testament laws.
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Leviticus 21:9
Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”
Genesis 38:24
I take it that you are referring to a popular modern interpretation of the "bitter water" ritual. In fact there is no reason in the text that the drink should work like that.Read the chapter (Numbers ch5)- the additive is just dust from the ground under the tabernacle, not the "poisonous herbs" that the proponents of this theory like to throw in.
When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.
Number 5:27
Read through the Old Testament with the eyes of a social historian. It's evident that couples in that society did not want to be childless. Having children was an economic advantage, if only because they could support you in your old age.
God is YOUR maker, do not try to pick the beam in God's eye for there is none but WE mere mortals have a whole forest of plank's in ours.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Also need you to cite book, chapter and verse where God forces or prescribes forcing a woman to marry her rapist.
I’ll wait...
Also need you to cite book, chapter and verse where God forces or prescribes forcing a woman to marry her rapist.
I’ll wait...
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 28
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 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.
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31