Damn it. I responded to that cuz I was in a hurry. Now please get the Fruit off my back. Please don't pretend that you know how I feel and think on this subject.
If a person killed someone with fire, they should be killed with fire. I think that if someone murders someone in a particular way, they should also be put to death in that way.
And you can't be serious about Numbers 31... I mean really? They are talking about a people that were the enemy. They already had caused the people of Israel to sin terribly. If they had let anybody live (they actually do in other places) they would simply cause problems for them later. That land was set aside for them long ago. It was promised to Abraham. Anybody who is on that land was trespassing on God's promise.
Also if you want to talk about Child sacrifice, how about where God condemns it.
11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee."
It was a custom of the peoples around them to do this to appease the gods they worshiped. They only reason God told Israel to kill the entire city was because they would lead the people astray.
Would God say that today? Nope. Age of Grace. Punishment for sins against God are not judged in this life, but in the life to come. Punishments against fellow men are to be judged by the proper authorities. You have a chance to be forgiven of all your sins. Christ saw to that when He defeated death and Sin and rose from the dead.
Edit: I forgot to mention your rape verses. The first one, in the city, She has a chance to protect herself by calling for help. Would you not call for help if you were being raped? How do we know that in that verse it wasn't talking about consensual sex? It does not say that he grabbed her as in the next verse. If she did not call for help she probably was consensually agreeing with that man.
Now I leave this thread.
