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No He didn't. He removed His hedge of protection and warned David of things to come. HUGE HUGE difference. God did not force Absalom to rebell against his father and disgrace him.
God knew the consequences to the women. Your God used them to punish David.
Your God seems to relish punishment.
Then again, the tale of woman being sexually molested in public is a male sexual fantasy. Men love power over women.
Just an honest question: during that period of time would they not have been stoned to death for adultry after the sex act? I am guessing that adultry must of meant the same thing back then that is does now so if the women were willing they would have not only been willing to be publically shamed by having sex in public but also willing to risk being stoned to death for doing so.
I believe they would have been stoned to death. They would have been blamed for their own rape.
So in your take of this story if the event happened the women would have been punished twice for David's deeds if taken litterally?
Do you think the story may have been meant allegorical as a warning for others?
I think the story was a male sexual fantasy, like many others in the bible. Women being raped, and passed around to men. Girls having sex with their father. The belief Sodom and Gomorrah was about men having sex with men. An angry mob of men being offered a man's daughters to rape.
The theme of men controlling women is rampant. It is all about submitting to the will of men, who just happen to know the will of God. Sounds a little too convenient.
I'm kind of curious why the naysayers never concentrate on "God is love" and "God is working all together for good" and "God will have all mankind to be saved"? Kind of strange to me. It is like being married to a woman who, all she can do is find fault with her husband and just harangues him day after day after day. There has to be a mental deficit for someone to continue doing that.
I'm kind of curious why the naysayers never concentrate on "God is love" and "God is working all together for good" and "God will have all mankind to be saved"? Kind of strange to me. It is like being married to a woman who, all she can do is find fault with her husband and just harangues him day after day after day. There has to be a mental deficit for someone to continue doing that.
Again, marginalizing women. Using them as examples for scorn, and derision. Much like the bible you adore.
How do you not see this?
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