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.   (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
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It is typical of the kinds of minutae that pebble the OT.  These situations no longer apply.  The book is out-of-date TO SAY THE LEAST and should be completely revisited and brought into the 21st century.  This is not to say that it should not continue to be read as a piece of historical literature, but please, don't consider it a relevant source of moral advice.
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What does he get out of the deal? In return for all that attention are you going to take on the responsibility of looking after him financially? You don't want a man, you want a servant.
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You are exactly right.And that is what the bible teaches.Man is to be the leader of the household and his decisions should stand firm.The wife should be silent in the home and in the church.Of course this view will reap criticism from the new world order,but society changes and not the words of the bible
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It's easy to ignore.  Cause today God is different.  If they say otherwise, then they are the one's who are dishonest.  Why would selling your daughter as a sex slave be alright in one book, then suddenly bad the next?  Obviously something has changed here.  And I am sure that many will justify it by calling you Ignorant and say you don't know what the Bible really says (even though you just quoted it).  No matter how they turn, though, there is no rationalizing the Old Testament God with the New Testament God.\nGood to see you, btw.  ^_^
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If the government was going to pay descendants of former slaves, this would lead to a series of problems.\n\n1. How does the government tell who was a descendant of a former slave and who immigrated after the Civil War?\n\n2. If we are going to pay descendents of slave reparations, what about all the families (like mine) who sacrificed everything running underground railroads? These, mostly white, families often lost EVERYTHING, including their lives, when the bounty-hunters and pro-slavery forces found out who ran a station.\n\n3. What about every other indentured servant or forced laborer and their descendants?\n\n4. Who will pay for this? What about descendants of people who never owned slaves or fought against those who did?  Why should they pay?  What about those who came to America after the Civil War?  Also, since the money from the government comes from taxes, how do we know "who" exactly paid?  How do we know the descendant of a slave is just not paying more taxes to pay themselves?\n\n5. How much is the per capita reparation?  What should each person get?  Will we need, yet another, expensive bureaucracy to manage it?\n\n6. Is this a one time payment or an installment?  If so, then for how long?  Does this reparation mean other assistance programs are discontinued?  If so, which ones? Does this payment continue from generation to generation or just the current generation?  If not, why not?  If so, why?\n\n7. Should we not then demand that EVERY nation which ever held slaves or participated in their trade be forced to pay reparations?  Would it matter if they were not the same country, or a country at all, when it happened?  What about Italy who, when they were the Romans had slaves fight to the death?  What about the Greeks, or the Egyptians, or the Philistines (Palestinians), or the Syrians, or the Chinese, or pick a country? What about the Dutch who had a large role in the slave trade?  Do they not owe reparations as an accomplice in the African slavery issue?  What about the tribes in Africa who helped the Dutch get slaves?  What about those that still own slaves in Africa (Sudan is the center of modern slave trading)?\n\nThese are just a few of the questions this issue raises.
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That was an old testament law for the Jewish people because God knew that if they married pagan women or men they would be enticed to worship their gods and turn from Him. \n\nDeuteronomy 7:1  "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,  (2)  and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.  (3)  You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,  (4)  for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.\n\nIn the new testament Christians are told:\n\nColossians 3:11  Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.\n\nIn other words, as long as a person is a follower of Jesus, their race has no meaning in God's eyes. If the person is not a believer, that's what matters now.\n\n2 Corinthians 6:14  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?  (15)  What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?  (16)  What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,  (18)  and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
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I'm not judging anyone but the bible says it's wrong that's why he gave man woman to be his companion don't forget he didn't give Adam another man he gave him a woman for his company.
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I think it is not ok. I know that some cultures encourage that, however I think it should be up to the individuals to decide who they want to spend the rest of their lives with. For example in some cultures a 12 year old girl may have an arrange marriage with a 70 year old man, so that the family can make some sort of profit. In this case that is rather sick.
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It's pretty obvious what God means when He says that it is a detestable thing for a man to lie with another man as a man lies with a woman.\n\nIt is made even more so obvious when you look at 1 Corinthians 6:9.\n\n"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders..."\n\nMade even more obvious in Romans 1:26-27 - "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."\n\nTranslators often use the oldest and most reliable Hebrew manuscripts to write their Bibles. The only differences among the versions are in that of wording, but the collective meaning is not lost (slightly altered, maybe). For instance, in Genesis, the word "yom" is used for "day" in the 24 hours sense, so we can apply that to Genesis 1, which uses "yom" and thus the days of creation took six literal days.\n\nAre you indeed even AWARE what those verses are talking about, or are you just blindly holding to the homosexual's argument that those verses don't really refer to such things, because you sure don't give any substantiation to back up your claims. Your case does not have a point to begin with, because you are just spouting hot water.\n\nAs Paul said in Romans 7:7-8, "What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet." But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead."\n\nThe law (Exodus, Lev., and Deut.) reveals sin for what it is.\n\nMay you find peace from Christ.
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Leviticus 18:22\n2 "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. \n\nRomans 1:26-27\n26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
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Just be careful you do know if you marry an Egyptian your children and you automatically his property or chattel he has the right to divorce you and the children in the Muslim religion always go to him.  Never to the Mom.\nIf he removes the children from the states the US state dept. will not help you because the children have dual citizenship.\n  Also in most Muslim countries they have more than one wife.\n \n Read book not without my daughter. By Bettie Moody she also has a sequel book as well. True books about how she helped people get there children back from Muslim countries.\n If you are American women most are too strong willed to be someone property and speaking up can get you killed there.\n\n  I have a dear friend who did marry and Egyptian and her husband is now being shipped back to Egypt because he was considered subversive in the US now she has 4 kids to care for he has a new wife in Egypt and now she stuck even though he has asked her to come over there. She not all that on the 2 wife thing.\n\n Please read these books before making up your Mind \n\nFor the Love of a Child\nNot Without My Daughter  both by Betty Mahmoody \n\nAt Any Price: How America Betrayed My Kidnapped Daughters for Saudi Oil by Patricia Roush \nMy Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban - A Young Woman's Story by Latifa \nPrincess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson \n\nDiane
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Not uncomfortable as much as saddened. It reminds me of the unjust servant who demanded of his slave to repay his debt of $5 after he was forgiven $50,000 that he owed. They will never go unless they can forget the past and look to Jesus--where they are suppose to be walking toward. You cannot serve two masters, you will either love one and hate the other or be devoted to one and hat the other. If they love civil rights more than growing in the Lord, they will lose their true freedom.
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I was kind of wondering the same thing but then I found this: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor theives nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.\n1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NIV (New Testament)
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Yes, you should talk to a lawyer and demand all the money they stole from you as a child. That's theivery and its considered a sin in the bible.\n\nThou shall not steal... I didnt write it, I just repeat it...
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There is more to the rape law. Back up to Deuteronomy 22:23-24 (NAB) \n\n"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."\n\nNow, if you read Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:23-29, 2 Samuel 12:11-14, Judges 5:30, Exodus 21:7-11 and Zechariah 14:1-2, it's pretty clear the God actually APPROVES of rape and even uses it as a reward for his minions.\n\nIf you actually read the Bible, you'll find that God really doesn't give a whooping fundt about women. Women are property.\n\nWhat you are reading in Deuteronomy 22:28-29 is property law. Raping a mans betrothed is not about whether it is right or wrong to rape someone. It is about the punishment for devaluing another mans property. If you read very carefully, you'll notice there is no prohibition on raping a woman who is not betrothed, that is to say, the property of another man.\n\n-SD-
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No- this is a bunch of male crap. Anyone who uses religion to control or enslave someone, should be horsewhipped. You should be a strong, independant person, whether you are a male or female. "god" didn't say those things, men did.
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No, It's not. It definitely can be termed as a compromise but not prostitution.There might be more than one reasons to marry such a man/woman. As you raised a point about poor countries, some women would do it to help their families. It could be a sacrifice on their part as they feel by compromising on their own selfish qualms of marrying an"ideal" lover, they can, may be open doors of prosperity for their families and their generations to come. On the other hand it could be that they value money more than their own so called "self esteem". Or they prioritize monetary security over, more often failing, love marriages. I think its just a different way of thinking. Just because you can't come to terms with such an idea doesn't make all of 'em hos.