Why doesn't God prohibit rape in the Ten Commandments? Did the concept of "rape" even exist when the Bible was being written?
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Why doesn't God prohibit rape in the Ten Commandments?
God doesn't exist
Thou shall not covet?
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, yes. But what if it's an unmarried woman? Then you can covet her, or?
I think the word "neighbor" is supposed to be a metaphor that means "other people" or "humanity", like obviously the phrase "love thy neighbor" doesn't mean "love only the people who live in your neighborhood but it's okay to hate the rest".
However, the phrasing "thy neighbor's wife" is still strange because it a priori assumes women are a property of other men, thus if rape is bad it's not because it violates female bodily autonomy, but because it damages other men' s property. Raping an unmarried woman would then be damaging a POTENTIAL property of some other man.
Neighbor means kinsman. It's a racial term.
I remember when I read that as a religious tween I was bummed out because "to covet" means "to want/yearn". Like how can you not lust after an attractive woman, married or not. Hot women activate your neurons automatically. Whether you decide to act on your impulses or not is a whole other story.
You're allowed to covet women as long as they don't belong to your neighbor.
i love those threads so goddamn much
Does this mean Elliott Rodger is in Hell because he was a murderer, but had he been a rapist he'd be in Heaven?
>Did the concept of "rape" even exist when the Bible was being written?
I don't think it even exists today in some primitive tribes and cultures
This is what happens when an atheist/disbeliever read the Sacred Scriptures. He cannot reason.
God likes rape, why would he for bid it?
Deuteronomy 5:18,21
>[18]“ ‘Do not commit adultery.
>[21]“ ‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.’
Being covetous towards another person is pretty much breaking the above commandments. If you have no plan to marry them, yet you're burning with lust, it's pretty much adultery. We do it with our eyes whenever we look at a person lustfully that we aren't married to. Christ himself compared it to fornication in Matthew 5:28.
More likely "rape" wasn't a word that existed back then. Just fornication and adultery. According to Google:
>The word “rape” is derived from the Latin rapere, meaning “to steal, seize, or carry away.” Forcible seizure and rape were accepted methods of …
The commandment "Thou shall not steal" plays a huge role in this. Derp.
>If you have no plan to marry them, yet you're burning with lust, it's pretty much adultery. We do it with our eyes whenever we look at a person lustfully that we aren't married to.
So the concept of "marital rape" doesn't exist in Christianity?
Point it out to me. Which book, which chapter, which verse. And if it is there, more likely that person was aligning himself with God's wrath.
>Why doesn't God prohibit rape in the Ten Commandments? Did the concept of "rape" even exist when the Bible was being written?
People back then weren't idiots and they realized that if women had say in the matter the human race would have gone extinct long ago just as japan is right now.
Rape was a property crime in the ancient Near East
>Rape was a property crime in the ancient Near East
Exactly, just as it was in 90% of the rest of the world.
People are so out of touch these days.
Rape is a property crime in the Hebrew Bible. That's why you had to marry a woman if you raped her: you made her ineligible for marriage and now her father can't get his bride-price.
You break it you buy it:God's position on rape.
Read the Levitical laws, it provides for this in there.
"Thou shalt not steal" and "thou shalt not covet anything of thy neighbor's" also cover this as well.
"thou shalt not steal" would include rape in a society that treated women as property, no?