funny, but ...
Submitted by Ray on May 18 1999 at 04:24:51
In reply to I agree with jm... Submitted by F.O.D. on May 16 1999 at 18:04:04
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this verse tells me something different! You wrote: _______ If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife Ex 22:16 What this verse tells me is that sex and marriage are inextricably bound, that it's out of place to have sex without the lifelong vow of commitment being there. _______ What that verse tells me, just off the top of my head, is that if you're going to make a young woman unable to be married and thereby unable to provide for herself, you have to take her into your family and provide for her. A different society produces different consequences to an act and has different reasons for proscriptions and different remedies of the consequences of infraction of proscriptions! Ray |