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To: wideawake

I have never heard anyone make that claim before.

But even should I concede your point, what about the genocide?
What about instructing the army to keep virgin girls as spoils of war? What about being required to marry rdead brother's wife? What about slavery.

Jehovah's laws are full of things which we will rightly reject today.


97 posted on 07/12/2006 11:40:25 AM PDT by JusticeForAll76
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To: JusticeForAll76
I have never heard anyone make that claim before.

The word "lie down" does not equal "rape" no matter who claims anything to the contrary.

But even should I concede your point, what about the genocide?

Which genocide is that now?

What about instructing the army to keep virgin girls as spoils of war?

What about it? In the 12th century BC Near East, a virgin girl whose father and other adult male family members was killed in warfare had absolutely no protection of any kind and was anyone's prey. Commanding the soldiers who slew her male relatives in war to take her in and provide for her is hardly cruel or unjust.

What about being required to marry rdead brother's wife?

Men were required to offer to marry their deceased brother's wife. A very different matter altogether.

What about slavery

What about it? God's law not only did not mandate slavery, but it mandated the freeing of slaves in various circumstances.

Jehovah's laws are full of things which we will rightly reject today.

Not on the basis of the spotty evidence you've presented.

112 posted on 07/12/2006 11:57:35 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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