In Biblical times, If a man married a girl at puberty age can you now call it pedophilia ?

Question

Girls were married right after puberty (ages 9-15).

EVEN TODAY -- In Mass. you can marry a girl at 12 yrs with parental permission.

In Texas you can marry a girl at the age 14 with parental permission.

Mary gave birth to Jesus when she was 13 years old.

How can someone NOW call the marriages in biblical times pedophilia, just because they JUDGE by a different standard.

Sounds hypocritical do you agree ?
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THEN WHY DO CHRISTIANS CALL THE PROPHET OF ISLAM A PEDOPHILE ? -- OUT OF PURE HATE ???

Answer 1

no in those days ppl married alot younger and were more mature....also on Little House too....before lots of education was needed which caused probs for kids when in college

Answer 2

i just checked girls in mass. can marry at 16 with parents permission if its someone within 2 years of her age and in texas the age is 16 all states say 18 is the age but most say 16 or 17 with permission if the man is with in 2 or 3 years of her age a 50 year old cant marry a 16 year old and the mary myth she was around 16 or 17 not thirteen its amazing you say the christian religion is paul adding the myths of mithra around jesus did you know the virgin birth the raising of the dead making the blind see and healing the sick are all parts of the mithra myth? but of course you will only pick and choose what you want to believe and really where do you get these stories i want to check out the websits man or get the books from the library so next question you ask provide the links or the books ok

Answer 3

yes, i agree, but i must say nowadays marrying a 12-13-14 years old girl is seen as a negative thing because it has been demonstrated that her brain and EQ is not well developed to understand and to feel the right sensations when having intercourse. also, a 13-years old girl cannot be responsable as a mother or house keeper.

i'm not against it, i just say that there are reasons. i didn't know mary gave birth at 13, this is amazing

gypsis in our country (romania) marry at 12, 11 and the husband is also around this age. they have another policy so this is their own bussines. tradtion says that not so far ago, even the romanians were doing this at the same age, but only in the countryside. if a girl was over 14 she was considered old and nobody would take her as a wife anymore. how does this sound?

even today there are villages where girls marry at 15,16

Answer 4

I agree, I wouldn't call it pedophilia. We have to realize that in some past cultures and maybe even some present-day cultures, getting married by your teenage years was a normal thing. Keep in mind though that in those days people usually didn't live to see their 40th birthday, and on top of that they didn't have the same type of economy we do today (schooling until you're 18 or older, then joining the work force in a profession that's probably not the same one as your parents, etc.).

Likewise, I don't know why people insist on conforming to the rules of the Bible that were created for entirely different people with an entirely different society. Just read Leviticus for examples.

Answer 5

Mary was not 13, she was 16 or 17, and even if she was 13, there is a huge difference between a 13 year old and a 9 year old!

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/infancyjames-roberts.html
http://www.psych.org/news_room/press_releases/diagnosticcriteriapedophilia.pdf

Answer 6

Mary was not 13 years old ,good grief make up some more lies ,She was any where between 16 -18 years of age

Answer 7

No. The moral views change. In Biblical times, it was ok to stone women because they were suspected of looking at another man besides her husband.

It was the fastest way to divorce.

By our standards, they were sexist pigs.

Answer 8

Don't forget Benjamin Franklin who thought any girl over 15 was too elderly.

Answer 9

its not pedophilia. people were lucky to live to 35, depending on what area they lived in.

Answer 10

mostly, culture has changed since then. some people change, some people live on with religious dogma