I have to say, I often have a hard time reconciling the “restoring honor and hospitality by rape” motif in The Bible. For me, I consider it to be the sins of man written down, and these sins are justified by saying that they are God-sanctioned. I do not believe the rapes and wars in the Bible to ever be God-sanctioned. It’s an age-old story to claim the righteousness of God to sin against one another, isn’t it? This is why we must fight for human rights.
I have to say, I often have a hard time reconciling the “restoring honor and hospitality by rape” motif in The Bible. For me, I consider it to be the sins of man written down, and these sins are justified by saying that they are God-sanctioned. I do not believe the rapes and wars in the Bible to ever be God-sanctioned. It’s an age-old story to claim the righteousness of God to sin against one another, isn’t it? This is why we must fight for human rights.