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PDidz, I don't think God ever did encourage rape, murder, and slavery in the Old Testament. The hahaimakesense's first quote is describing the punishment for rape under Israelite law. The second--the way it looks to me--shows God taking lives that He already owns (he owns every life) through the Israelites (assuming the Israelites were obeying God's will being in the war in the first place). And Israelites were allowed to "keep the women" of cities they conquered by marrying them (Deuteronomy 21:10-14), not raping them. As for women having no legally defined way to avoid marriage and Israelites being allowed to have slaves, I imagine those were never "encouraged", but tolerated like divorce (Matthew 19:8). After all, God doesn't change. |
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