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Originally Posted by ScarletTheWolfGirl
This website is trash God is against rape. Why would the God of love and mercy want someones daughter to get raped. I go to church, I read my bible, and I pray. I have battled many trials and tribulations with God's help and one thing for sure is this website is dishonoring his name you can count me done with this website.
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Hi, Scarlet, I'm sorry if you are having a hard time, but you can't really say that God is against rape when God hasn't actually said it Himself.
There are a lot of rapes noted in the Bible. In not one of the instances mentioned does God respond with a specific. "thou shalt not". Usually, there are a lot of detailed instructions about how the girl's father can be properly recompensed (if she is truly blameless) or how the girl ought to be punished for not making a sincere effort to resist.
Sometimes in the Bible you will read about men who just loved the Lord and made every effort to honor His Name, but who will nonetheless offer up daughters and wives to be used sexually by other men, because, hey, they have more important considerations. What you don't read in the Bible is God saying, "That was bad; girls have feelings, too."
The painful fact is that the female sex was created to function in relation to men. I know that can be hard to take, but the Bible kind of punches home that message throughout its many narratives.
If you aren't somebody's daughter or sister or wife, then you're a non-entity in the Bible. And Biblical directives make it very clear that a woman's father or brothers or husband are the injured parties in instances of rape.
Please remember that we only want to share God's Word with you so that you can see the Truth and live your life in the freedom of that Truth.
It's not an easy path, but it's a worthy one.
Encouragingly Yours,
Handmaiden