Numbers 31:7-18 , Deuteronomy 22:28-29, Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Judges 5:30
All of these things seem to say that the writers of the bible had a hard time finding a wife and believed it was okay to take one by force. Wouldn't that make them the equivalent of cavemen?
2007-04-13 09:02:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Read the scriptures before you answer people. There is no ambiguity about these scriptures. Here is one for you to look at now:
(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that YOU TAKE CAPTIVES, if you see a comely woman among the CAPTIVES and become so enamored of her that YOU WISH TO HAVE HER AS WIFE, YOU MAY TAKE HER HOME to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has MOURNED HER FATHER AND MOTHER for a full month, YOU MAY HAVE RELATIONS WITH HER, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you UNDER COMPULSION."
This is pretty straight forward. Notice, it does not say that the girls has to want YOU!
2007-04-13 09:33:40 · update #1
Shh!
Don't offend the cavemen.
Remember the trouble Geico got into.
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2007-04-13 09:06:32 · answer #1 · answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I read only the first passage you gave and I see nothing in it that says that these women were taken as wives. It indicates that they were servants who in those times certainly could have been used sexually as were the female servants of the day. The people from which they were taken were sinful and God wanted them destroyed...including all the women. It was Moses who allowed the virgins to be saved. It along with some other things that occurred later was what prevented Moses from ever reaching the promised land. He had lost his worthiness.
I have no objection to someone asking questions about the Bible and what we believe it to mean, but it is important that you read and study all of it..not just a passage here and there. Otherwise, it is difficult to understand what is history, what is tradition and what comes directly from God.
2007-04-13 16:15:13 · answer #2 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please do not read it in such a hurry. Digest every word said. It does not jive with how you seemed to understand it. Also remember God's promise to Abraham that his children would be as many as the stars in heaven and to Isaac to increase in numbers. So, the tendency for the plunder is also take the woman for them to have more Israelite's children. At that time also women were married through arrangement between families or neighbors and since they were allowed by their law to have more than one wife, they could get their woman from the captured enemy and of course, Moses have intervened by getting only the woman who have not been committed to anyone. No one said that the women were clobbered with clubs or dragged to make them look like the cavemen.
2007-04-13 16:27:09 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's meant to be interpreted that way. I actually think that it's calling for accountability on behalf of the man. Grant it... women where considered beneath the man (still are) but the command was geared towards accountability on behalf of both in order to keep the sin away from the israelites etc. I think you should read more.
2007-04-13 16:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Also, the culture has developed since then. We don't sacrifice red bulls without defect any more either.
Some of us believe Scripture shows our developing understanding of God's will after all. We're not all idiots about it.
2007-04-13 16:15:20 · answer #5 · answered by Brian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the scriptures as the story of the evolutions of man's struggle to understand God.
This tells you how flawed humanity was and how far we've come. It's a message to be kinder to ourselves.
2007-04-13 16:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Fancy That 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's not what i understand from reading the verses.
tell u what, why don't u go to a pastor or a priest or a rabbi or somebody who kows more about the bible instead of getting ur answers from here.
2007-04-13 16:12:48 · answer #7 · answered by moolahcometh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're basically saying that if a man has sex with a woman, then he is required to marry her. It has nothing to do with how to obtain a wife.
2007-04-13 16:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by Ambrielle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Misinterpretation...
2007-04-13 16:09:25 · answer #9 · answered by rockinweazel 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not cavemen, but abusers.
2007-04-13 16:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by firey_cowgirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋