Bear in mind, Taffer, this is the self-same god that requires rapists to marry the girl. So, making the victim of pedaphilia need forgivness isn't all that foreign.I'm sorry, Kathy, and I in no way mean to make light of any events that took place in your childhood, but I find this pathetic. Why, in all honesty, must God forgive you? What kind of divine being must forgive you for being a victim? What kind of god must forgive you for the way you were born? What kind of god forgives a serial killer who repents on his deathbed, but not a gay aid worker who spent her entire life helping others? To me this sounds like a cruel, capricious being who is not worthy or deserving of our worship.
Sling it is definately hard to understand why God shows more mercy and grace to some, but maybe not others. I hear you.
And I wish you had not brought up the idea of a pedifile. I myself was a victim as a child. But what I found is God forgave me..
*hug*You were the victim of a sexual predator....
and God forgave YOU?
Wow. I have to think about this.
So children who get raped or molested are sinners?
You know, it's been kind of amusing to bait you and listen to you bleat, but now you have crossed a very serious line.
I was molested from ages 8 to 14. And now you tell me I need to ask forgiveness because three different men tried to have sex with me over the course of 6 years? Just what did I do wrong, what sin did I commit, while I was being held down and stripped naked and used to gratify the sexual desires of 40 year-old men?
Oh wait. I remember now. You're the one who thinks it's equally my fault that my first husband was an alcoholic and cocaine addict and liked to beat me in between his visits to church.
*hug*
Maybe you love Jesus, but he obviously doesn't much like you, if he and God sent you not one, but three pedophiles in your childhood. What a nice guy.And I wish you had not brought up the idea of a pedifile. I myself was a victim as a child. But what I found is God forgave me..and because of his love I can forgive the other people that have hurt me much of my life. I don't want to go into too much detail about it. But I can tell you the 3 pedifiles in my childhood I feel sorry for.
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I now know somehow all things work to the good for those who love the Lord. And I'm sure everyone here knows by now that I LOVE JESUS!!
Thank you, Tobias.
Kathy needs a hug, too. How very sad for her. I hate that she, or any woman or man, would feel that guilty over being a victim.
Just breaks my heart.
We're not reading anything into the "if she does not please him?"
What I hate is that there are monsters who will find justifications for making (their) victims feel guilty, and making them perpetuate this monstruosity. "Those who (are made to) believe absurdities will (be made to) commit atrocities" indeed.
And a big hug to all victims.
I suggest a hug for the victims without evisceration for the perpetrators is somewhat pointless..
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Remember that the girl in question is Jewish (part of the passage you quoted are laws that pertain to the father of the girl), and I believe that for a Jewish man to have sex with a Jewish girl to whom he isn't married is considered adultery in the OT.
-Bri
No I'm not say God forgave me for someone elses sin. I saying that later in life I had some unhealthy area that developed in my own life, perhaps from being a victim at a young age, but never the less I had sex out of wedlock with more than one man ( and not at the same time either) when I bacame an adult. These are the things that added pain to my life. Sex outside of marriage causes many heartaches in peoples lives. Wouldn't you agree?You were the victim of a sexual predator....
and God forgave YOU?
Wow. I have to think about this.
So children who get raped or molested are sinners?
You know, it's been kind of amusing to bait you and listen to you bleat, but now you have crossed a very serious line.
I was molested from ages 8 to 14. And now you tell me I need to ask forgiveness because three different men tried to have sex with me over the course of 6 years? Just what did I do wrong, what sin did I commit, while I was being held down and stripped naked and used to gratify the sexual desires of 40 year-old men?
Oh wait. I remember now. You're the one who thinks it's equally my fault that my first husband was an alcoholic and cocaine addict and liked to beat me in between his visits to church.
Sex outside of marriage causes many heartaches in peoples lives. Wouldn't you agree?
I did not say you did anything to deserve this. But look at the perpatrators. Isn't it obvious to you that they sinned against you? It's terrible to think so many evil things people do without even the slightest bit of remorse for it.Just what did I do wrong, what sin did I commit, while I was being held down and stripped naked and used to gratify the sexual desires of 40 year-old men?
Oh wait. I remember now. You're the one who thinks it's equally my fault that my first husband was an alcoholic and cocaine addict and liked to beat me in between his visits to church.
I did not say you did anything to deserve this. But look at the perpatrators. Isn't it obvious to you that they sinned against you? It's terrible to think so many evil things people do without even the slightest bit of remorse for it.
And when you bring up the point of drugs and alcohol...well these things always lead to even more evil in the world. People are not only totally irrashinal when then are high...but in my opinion they are controlled by their demons. This is just the way I can't help but look at it or see it.
And I do believe what scripture tells us about spiritual warfare...
Ephesians 6: 10-12
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.