Do you think it would have been recorded in history? Or would it have been no problem? Men treated women like cattle, so no biggy right?
2007-04-21 07:44:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good point! what makes you think he didn't, they were property back then. and had no rights.
2007-04-21 07:47:38 · answer #1 · answered by Denise W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They sacrifice guys and animals but women are lower then cattle in the good ol' days of that religion.It wouldn't have made their book.
2007-04-21 07:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by CRAVE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right . I don't think that would have been counted much like a sacrifice . You gotta really 'miss' something to feel it as a sacrifice . I am trying to be fair, but cannot remember any instant where a female counted that much . Feel free to enlighten ! Hope I am wrong .
2007-04-21 07:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God accepted human sacrifices back then and in one instance it was a generals daughter.
"At that time the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and led an army against the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."
"So Jephthah led his army against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory. He thoroughly defeated the Ammonites from Aroer to an area near Minnith – twenty towns – and as far away as Abel-keramim. Thus Israel subdued the Ammonites. When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter – his only child – ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish. "My daughter!" he cried out. "My heart is breaking! What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back." And she said, "Father, you have made a promise to the LORD. You must do to me what you have promised, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites. But first let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin." "You may go," Jephthah said. And he let her go away for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children. When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah's daughter." (Judges 11:29-40 NLT)
see also Leviticus 27:28-29
2007-04-21 07:55:23 · answer #4 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, it would be recorded. At Abraham time, society was quite matriarchal, women were much more important a they are treated today in most of the world (Africa, Muslim world for example).
2007-04-21 07:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by blapath 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not certain as to " this particular passage" in the bible. But I can say this "being a sinner".
Women being treated like cattle in your statement above reflects "anger" in your thoughts!
(Do you have a positive attitude here in questioning "God"?)
The way I look at it being a "laymen" in knowing the bible is .
I would think that "God" remembered "in the beginning" the trouble he had to go through putting Adam to sleep.
Then, taking a rib from him..."to give to Eve" to perfect his creation!
Don't you think that the "Almighty" showed extravagant intelligence here?
Hey, women are "NOT" the underdog, to the contrary my friend!
"God" went back to perfect the women, us guy's ("as one of our presidents stated") "feel your pain"!
And don't tell me that you pay us back in "child barring"...
us guy's have kidney stones!
2007-04-21 08:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by John R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure it would have been just as significant a sacrifice. There is no one I love more than my daughter, besides God.
2007-04-21 07:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abraham only had the one son at that time...I think....
This story is obviously mythology....
had it been a girl we would be living in a completely different culture.
2007-04-21 07:47:55 · answer #8 · answered by Julian X 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know, THE STAND, by Stephen King is a really good book.
2007-04-21 07:47:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes you are absolutely right. No one would have thought twice about it.
2007-04-21 08:02:33 · answer #10 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋