[Craftmore]

Perfect Lady,If a woman were caught willinly having sex with someone who wasnt her husband she was killed.That was Gods rule.However an interesting contradiction is that it wasnt Jesus rule.Jesus forhave her and set her free,,but Jesus was God,,,So there lies the contradiction.

[HiTech RedNeck]

God forgave David for that little plot to off Uriah. He could have easily sent a priest with a sword. As it turned out David did suffer, but didn’t die for it.

Carrying this over to what governments in gentile society ought to do is an area that the bible does not touch on very much. My read for what it is worth is that capital punishment is permissible and expected to be normative for certain crimes, but not an absolute in-every-case requirement. Others differ and this gets into gnatty areas that are beyond my scope. The country would do well to have a mass remembering of God and that would weigh almost infinitely more than details of civil discipline.

[A_perfect_lady]

The point is, rape was never expressly forbidden because to a Middle Eastern male, it's a moot point what the woman wants. She is either the property of her father or her husband. A man who rapes a betrothed woman has violated another man's property, that's what he's being punished for. If she fought, they graciously forgive her, but the crime is not against her, it's against her betrothed. That's why it's a different case than if she is unmarried.

The Jesus loophole is an invention that reflects the changing times.

[PieterCasparzen]

Perfect Lady,If a woman were caught willinly having sex with someone who wasnt her husband she was killed.That was Gods rule.However an interesting contradiction is that it wasnt Jesus rule.Jesus forhave her and set her free,,but Jesus was God,,,So there lies the contradiction.

Jesus has the power to forgive sins (He died for our sins, he is the Son of God). He also commanded her to go and sin no more, and this she did, thus she repented and was saved.

She did not continue in habitual adultery.