Wonktonodi said:
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. That is a law of marriage and rape. How moral is it to force a rape victim to marry her rapist? Is there a point where this is invalidated latter? |
To be honest I'm not sure. I don't know if Moses said it to discourage rape at all, because the rapist would have to face the family until either dies. The real problem would be if the rapist is not just an offernder in that he just wants sex, but is actually forcing a woman to marry him by using the law... That would be a horrible issue.
I'm not sure about this. To be honest with you if this actually happened to me it would be a real source of doubting my faith and the authority of my country leaders.
I'm really not sure what the logic is in all this. But my approach is to give it throught before writing it off. I've always done it when it comes to scripture and it's paid off, let me mull this over.
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Deuteronomy 22:23-24 If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. Pretty harsh to the rape victim here. Seems the only difference though for the rapist is who they rape. Rape a single vigin and you owe 50 silver pieces and get a wife. Rape a married woman and be put to death. |
I like this because you actually take the rules to their ends, and I love that. Keep it up.
So, notice it doesn't say what happens if the girl cries out for help while she was in the city.
Again though, the story of Mary Magdalene supercedes this, and Christ explains the proper approach, which is grace and mercy (to both the victim who was defiled and the rapist who was the offender).
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Deuteronomy 21:10-14 "When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion." |
Yah, I don't like this one either... There might be something I'm not considering. Probably normally had there been no marriage she would have been a slave and the marriage was a form of redemption for her. Still, it is not in line with the teachings of Christ and the book of Genesis. This is why the law of Moses is secondary to the law of Christ.
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Deuteronomy 21:10-14 When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. |
The issue with this one is slavery or something different, I'm not sure. Sorry if I don't see it in this case. Polygamy?
