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Originally Posted by InLoveWithChrisChan
Yet aren't we supposed to be following ALL of the Bible?
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Yes.
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I mean we simply can't pick and choose now can we? So Bible says eye for an eye
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That just means that if I gauge your eye out, mine should be taken out as well.
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I don't see how executing rapists by impalement as symbolic death by rape in a hypothetical theocracy would be considered wrong.
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That's because you have not read the holy Bible, dear.
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Man rapes woman man would therefore would die by impalement through the anus a toturous rape death.
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Capital punishment is reserved only for a very special cases of rape/adultery (the Bible doesn't really distinguishes between these two)
Deuteronomy 22:22-24
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Please note that in this case
both the rapist and the raped deserve to die.
There is one specific case when the rapist is sentenced to die but the woman can go free:
Deuteronomy 22:25-27
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
And finally the case I brought up earlier, about a man raping a girl who is not engaged - it's wedding bells for them, nobody dies:
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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It's either follow all of the Bible or none.
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Yes.
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Not unless a truechristian has a right to decide what rules he or she wishes to follow. Which would be hypocritical by the way...
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Please show me a True Christian™ cherrypicking the Bible.
I'll be here all week.