“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he sleeps with her, he must certainly pay the bridal price for her to be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount in silver equal to the bridal price for virgins.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
One of the charges that sometimes gets leveled against the character of God is that He is a misogynist. That is, that He hates women. This charge is absurd on numerous levels, of course. The whole modern concept that women should have equal rights as men came out of Christians examining the teachings of the Scriptures and insisting on their consistent application. No one worldview produced anything similar to what Christianity has given the world in this regard. What we see here gives us a glimpse of how God sought to build this assumption of equality into His people from the start. Let’s talk about what we see here.
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