Is this moral behavior, Christians?

Question

From the Bible:

Numbers (13:17)

After a battle with the Midianites, the Israelites were told: "Kill every male dependant, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with a man, but spare for yourselves every woman among them who has not had intercourse."

Nice. Really nice. War and rape of virgins. Classy.

Then in Num. 31:32-35 it goes on to list the spoils of battle (in this order btw) as sheep, cattle asses and "thirty two thousand girls who had no intercouse with a man."

Bet a lot of you Christian women wouldn't have wanted to be Christians back in the day......you'd either be murdered (if you weren't a virgin, or raped. Nice choices there.

This sounds like it was written by a man/men who wanted to rape and murder women with no consequences. How can you be sure the whole Bible wasn't written by men like that?

Answer 1

Men have always had a hand in the religious text know as "the bible" god has never said a single word to a human being. In all actuality it was never "Gods" Idea to even "Be known" to his creations on earth. he wanted to see how far we humans could go on our own with out any devine intervention. But there was one in heaven who felt sorry for us "poor creature". one who questioned god as to how god could let his creations suffer and dye with out any knowledge of heaven? The only one in heaven who had the courage to say to god, How can you do this? was his first and highest held Angel... do you know of whom I speak? its actually very easy to guess.....

Answer 2

Classic misinterpretation written by someone so bigoted that the truth is hidden beneath lie upon lie.

If you read earlier passages you will find that the King of the Midianites brings war against Israel. What the Israelites are told to do by God via Moses is in retaliation for the attrocities the Midianites commited.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth--it's acceptible practice in the Old Testament. Even today in some cases.

There is no mention of rape, which you add on your own twisted interpretation.

Also the scriptures you quote comes from Numbers 31. Numbers 13:17 talks about something completely different.

Answer 3

This is one of the reasons that I do not read the Bible as a "history" or the absolute word of God.

I cannot fathom why God would order innocent people killed. I can fathom that these actions were fairly common during war at the time the passages were written or the original stories were told. Of course the Israelites believed that their behavior during war was sanctioned by God. Just as it is likely other nations believed that their behavior was approved of and directed by their Gods. Whether EITHER was correct is questionable.

It was written by a human being from his fairly narrow perspective. God's wisdom is in the Bible, but it is mixed in with a lot of "human-wisdom". Or what passed for human wisdom at the time.

And no. It wouldn't have been good to be a woman in this particular area of the world at that time. And that could be said for more nations than just Israel and more faiths than just Judaism.

Answer 4

Numbers 13:17 didnt advocate rape. It says literally to spare the virgins. the war was for a reason, Gods reasons. But if sin hadnt entered the world at our ushering, war would never have existed in the first place. We made our own cursed existence.

Um, there was no Christians back then. Christ didnt come until thousands of years later bear in mind!

The Bible was written by good men to be sure but it is misunderstood by many including you.

Answer 5

Actually, there were no Christians at all when Numbers was written. It was written at least a couple of thousand years before Christ was born. That was when people lived under The Law, which we call the Ten Commandments. There were lots of rules to follow in those days- and, no most of them were not very favorable to women, because women did not get to make any of the rules. Most of the men who wrote the rules had trouble following them, too. How many people do you know who have not broken a commandment?

Answer 6

Sorry , looked up your quotes. Was a waste of time. You make a very good troll. The passages don't say anything like that at all.

I wonder why you would try and misquote the bible. couldn't you back your info with real quotes or are you just that bad at research and misinformed.

May your life be a happy and fulfilling one.


Edit:
Sorry , looked up your second quote and found it valid. though it never states what they did with the woman or how they treated them. I guess it is always safe to assume the worse , but you never know.

Answer 7

you won't be in a position to, as there is none. If Christianity makes human beings extra ethical why is it that throughout this fairly religious us of a with an rather small share of atheists we've the utmost share of incarcerated human beings and this type of severe divorce fee? maximum atheists i understand have a minimum of as solid if not extra useful ethics than maximum religious human beings I actual have primary. possibly by way of fact our sense of actual and incorrect comes from interior fairly of from an exterior source. once I do incorrect, there is no god to forgive me and assuage my guilt, neither is there a devil i will blame. So I attempt very, very troublesome to no longer do some thing that could injury others or myself That, and that i basically have no force to injury others. ~Atheist and ex-Christian

Answer 8

You know one of the amazing things about the Bible, is it's tranperant honesty. Don't see that with many other religions.

the Bible does a good job of not hiding the ugly parts of our history. Wouldn't expect that, but it's there. Was one of the things that spoke to my heart of the truthfullness of the rest of the message.

now I spend a lifetime studying to understand why things happened, instead of just dismissing it.

Answer 9

Why are you asking Christian? This happened atleast one thousand years before Jusus was born. Was the flood moral? Those people that GOD had Israel kill were sinning greatly before God and since the blood of Jesus was not around yet God's grace and mercy was not as great as it is today. Hope that helped, God bless!

Answer 10

There are so many things wrong with that statement, but let's focus on the basics.
Numbers = Old Testament. Moses' priests were not raiding a Christian settlement (Which didn't even exist at the time, there was no such thing as a Christian.) but a group of ancient enemies who worshipped some crazy Idols or something.
Yeah, Moses was twisted, yeah his folks did some crazy things, but your gross misinterpretation of what actually happened leaves much to be desired.