Or something about not screaming loud enough? Can you give me the proof for this and if I have or anyone eles has taken it out of context, please be kind and explain what this means.
2007-01-03 10:35:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I meant marry not marries.
2007-01-03 10:37:52 · update #1
OMG, the markster, What stops a crazy sick moron from raping a girl who he perves on or for whatever reason but knows in the end he will have her for the rest of his life. Thats pure cruelty for the woman.
2007-01-03 10:41:34 · update #2
yes the woman must marry him.
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, 29 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.
2007-01-03 10:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is written in the Old Testament: Deuteronomy 22:28-29
New Living Translation (NLT)
28 “Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin but is not engaged to be married. If they are discovered, 29 he must pay her father fifty pieces of silver.[a] Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
Footnotes:
Deuteronomy 22:29 Hebrew 50 shekels of silver, about 1.25 pounds or 570 grams in weight.
Remember, we as Christians live under grace in the New Testament because of the blood of Jesus. The Old Testament is the old law, before Jesus.
If you were raped, you wouldn't not have to marry your rapist...period.
2007-01-03 19:00:10 · answer #2 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The societal context of that passage assumes that a virgin would not willingly have sex before marriage so if she had sex before marriage then it MUST have been rape. You can rest assured that in actual practice it wasn't like some man brutally raping a woman and taking off and then getting caught later on by the equivalent of the local police and being forced to marry her. A man like that would probably have been killed or something like that.
2007-01-03 21:51:29 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. When it was written there was a lot of that going around and that's a deterrent for rape and taking advantage of women. The men were out of control back then and they were trying to find ways to keep them in line. A women was "ruined" once she was no longer a virgin and marriage was sacred then so they needed a law to make people moral.
2007-01-03 18:40:09 · answer #4 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, unfortunately.
Deuteronomy 22:23-29, see it in a comical view at http://thebricktestament.com/the_law/rape/dt22_23a.html
Praise the Legos! :D
2007-01-03 18:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Now I hate the bible EVEN more. That is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long while.
2007-01-03 18:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by Seven Costanza 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"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. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NIV
Remember that the laws in those days were usually made for Jewish people. They were a small congregation, who needed to grow. It was illegal to waste semen on the floor. For the same reason this law was created. Simply to make Jewish people procreate.
That is the context in which it should be read. Even in that context it's kinda insane.
edit: lol, I know. What can i say? It's their insane context, not mine.
2007-01-03 18:39:47 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I feel sorry for those women. Didn't their lives matter just as much as preserving their race?
2007-01-03 18:55:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is "you can't rape the willing" in the Bible?
2007-01-03 21:12:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That comes from a Semitic culture.Or be killed take your pick.
2007-01-03 18:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋