I have not insulted anyone here and by saying your 7 yr old can understand what I do not is just meant to be an insult.
I didn't say that my 7 year old nephew can understand what you can't.
I think you could understand it too if you took time to actually read it in context... that was my point.
That's why I said
"Anyone who actually reads the text..."
"if he actually read the text..."
"just read the text in its context..."
Does that suggest you cannot understand what my 7 year old can? No, that's just your spin on my words.
Seeking to understand that which you do not is a constructive way to spend your time, more so at least than reading a post to see how you can belittle the writer.
I agree, but some questions point to the fact that the person isn't in fact seeking to understand anything. For example, I once heard someone ask the following question: "Atheists, is it true that you like to live in trees like monkeys since atheists believe we came from monkeys?"
Do you think that's an honest question?
Are they just a seeker seeking to understand that which they do not?
... Come on, we don't have to be naive and pretend that just because it has a question mark at the end of it that the person must be serious.
Ok first off I did not make myself clear and apologize for that. What I meant was that this is the word of God. No the previous lines do not say God told them to rape, the inference I was making is that the Jews are Gods people and the bible God's message.
The fact that the Bible is the Word of God does not necessitate that God approves of everything that the Bible records.
Let's take this logic and apply it to another example, Anne Frank's dairy. In the diary she recorded the activities of Nazis, therefore she approved of the activities of Nazis.
Your logic about the Jews being God's people doesn't make it any better since the Bible also records the Jews rebelling against God. In fact, that is indicated in the very next verse of the passage you cited.
So it's still not clear whether you have actually read this passage or whether your just parroting what you heard someone else say.
Your trying to clean up your question and make it more legitimate, but it's not helping since the the very next verse would weigh against your suggestion.
God then must approve of this behavior or he could have done to them what was done in the flood or Sodom.
If you apply this logic consistently you have to say that every time I do something bad that isn't immediately or visibly punished that God must approve of it.
You apparently aren't dead. Do you think this fact means God approves of everything in your life? If not, why would you think you can draw that conclusion concerning the Jews?
Next war time bride and rape are in fact the same thing.
How?