Why do Christians falsely claim that the "women children" in Numbers 31:17 were not kept as sexual slaves?

Question

If they were spared because they were innocent children, why were the little boys not similary spared? And why only spare female children who were STILL VIRGINS??? - If the enemy was are corrupt as the Hebrews claimed, presumably a fair number of the girls had been violated before the Hebrews came along... Why were these victims of child abuse not taken in and spared by the "Godly" Hebrews - unless sex was the only thing on their minds!

Answer 1

Good question. don't you love how when someone asks a real good question like this, none of the Christians can answer it. Except to make the same old tired remarks, like your not a christian so god will not allow you to see the meaning, or your taking it out of context, or Jesus made the old testament void, etc.

Answer 2

In ancient times slavery was an accepted institution. Those women and children that had been defiled by the rites of Ba' laam were considered by the Israelites to be an abomination and permanently unclean. Female slaves were used to increase the number of servants in a household and were considered valuable property. We cannot judge the past actions of people by current standards---any historian worth his salt will tell you that. What might seem ungodly today was considered obedient by the Israelites.

Answer 3

There is no reference to them being sexual slaves. I appears to me that all the men were killed in battle but the women and children were spared. Moses was angry that they had not killed the women because they were led astray by the pagan god Balaam. So he order the women and the boys to be killed. Any attempt at justifying why the girls were not killed is pure speculation.

Answer 4

The boys would grow up and take revenge. You should see what the Sultan of Persia did to my people. He would raid villages in the Ukraine and kidnap all boys under the age of 5, raise them as righteous Muslim soldiers and 15 years later, send them against the Ukrainians just as a terror tactic, so that they would see their own faces as they were killing each other.

Middle Easterners are extremely devious! All kinds of atrocities are meted out during war. Women and children in China were put in rape camps by the Japanese during the 2nd world war. People are crazy and cruel and act without any law during war.

Answer 5

I don't know that we can "assume" sexual slaves. In our society...that's most likely what would have happened...but in that society it was most likely to marry them.

Moses is angry when they return and did not kill the women, becasue he says the women are the ones who followed Balaam's advice and turned the Israelites away from God. Then he tells them to kill all except the virgin women.

My guess is that only the virgin women were considered pure enough to marry into their people. They could have more then one wife at that time.

I think it's your problem that you read "sexual slaves" into that.

Answer 6

They were specifically kept as sexual slaves according to the bible because god tells them to "multiply."

And he doesn't mean marriage either... in the stories a Hebrew man marries one of the girls and god kills him for it.

So multiply without marriage? Obviously there is some rape and sexual slavery going on.

Answer 7

Why do you challenge Christians with your question, instead of asking God? Christians have no obligation to argue these issues with you. Get on your knees and ask God for answers. Look to Him for encouragement. Knock and the door shall be opened for you.

Answer 8

You sound like you have first hand experience...ha.,ha, ha,lol.

You also sound very unstable and easily led astray....apparently wrestling the Scriptures to your own destruction. "... They that are unlearned and unstable do wrestle, as they do other Scriptures, to their own destruction". (II Peter 3:16)