eph12:


Because

OLAADEGBU:
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Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves" (Numbers 31:17-18).

Why were only the virgins left alive among the Midianites?

OLAADEGBU:


Suggested answer:

https://carm.org/bible-difficulties/genesis-deuteronomy/why-were-only-virgins-left-alive-among-midianites

The Midianites were descended from Abraham and Keturah (Gen. 25:1). They inhabited the land of Moab and were apparently involved in seducing Israel into going after false gods. Because the Israelites fell into idolatry this way, God told Moses to order the deaths of all who had bowed to the false gods in that land.

"While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. 2 For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel. 4 And the Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel." 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor." (Num. 25:1-5).

God later instructs the Israelites to deal harshly with the Midianites: "Be hostile to the Midianites and strike them; 18 for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was slain on the day of the plague because of Peor." (Num. 25:17-18). Later, when Moses meets the returning Israeli army he was angry because he saw the Medianite survivors. "The Midianite women, he said, should have died because they were directly culpable in Israel's sin at Baal of Peor. All the women except the virgins were then sentenced to death along with all the boys. This insured the extermination of the Midianites and thus prevented them from ever again seducing Israel to sin . . . The virgins were spared because they obviously had had no role in the Baal of Peor incident nor could they by themselves perpetuate the Midianite peoples."¹

Some may object that the Israelites then married the virgins, the daughters of those whom they had killed; and that this would be a horrible thing for the virgins. Perhaps it was a horrible thing for them. But, their lives were spared. Also, in that culture at that time, warfare and plunder was a necessary evil. The reality of taking women as wives was unfortunate but true.

Why was God so harsh with those in idolatry?
We must understand that God dealt very harshly because it was through the people of Israel that the Messiah would later come. Satan, in his perpetual effort to oppose God, sought to have the people of God fall into false worship and through intermarriage with other people to destroy the messianic line and make not only the promises of God null and void but also destroy means by which the Messiah could be born. If this could be accomplished, then none would have any hope of deliverance from sin. Therefore, we see in the Old Testament God being very harsh and strict according to the Law.

OLAADEGBU:


"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves" (Numbers 31:17-18).

Why were only the virgins left alive among the Midianites?

sonmvayina:


Good try op... But like I always say, the battle is within...

OLAADEGBU:


Can you expantiate?

OLAADEGBU:
"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves" (Numbers 31:17-18).

Why were only the virgins left alive among the Midianites?

CAPSLOCKED:


THE CHRISTIAN GOD HAS ALWAYS HAD ISSUES WITH WOMEN, MOST ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH THEIR HYMEN ABSENT.

OLAADEGBU:


Do you believe the above biblical story really happened?

CAPSLOCKED:


WHAT?
I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE. IF THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE, IF THEY CAN ACCEPT THAT SHEDRACH AND HIS FRIENDS WALKED IN A FIRE WITHOUT GETTING BURNT, THAT DANIEL SURVIVED THE LIONS DEN, THAT A TALKING SNAKE DECEIVED A WOMAN WHO WAS MADE FROM THE RIB OF A MAN WHO WAS MADE FROM SAND, THAT JONAH LIVED IN A LIVING FISH, THAT THERE WAS A PREGNANT VIRGIN AND A MAN WHO SPOKE TO THOUSANDS AT ONCE WITHOUT AN AMP AND FED THEM WITH 5 TINY LOAVES OF BREAD, THAT PEOPLE CAME OUT OF GRAVES WHEN ONE MAN DIED ON THE CROSS, THAT MEN ASCENDED INTO THE SKY ON FLYING HORSES, THAT THE WHOLE NILE TURNED TO BLOOD AND THOUSANDS CROSSED A SEA THAT WAS SPLIT INTO TWO... .. THEN THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT THE OTHER VERSES ABOUT RAPING AND KILLING CHILDREN AND WOMEN EXCEPT VIRGINS HAPPENED AS THE WILL OF GOD.
THERE'S NO NEED TO CHERRY-PICK ANYTHING, I'M NOT SURE GOD WOULD LIKE THAT.

IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS A CRUEL, EVIL, HOMOPHOBIC, GENOCIDAL, PATRIARCHAL, ENVIOUS, PROUD, TERRIBLE, BLOOD-THIRSTY MISOGYNIST.. EXACTLY LIKE THE STONE-AGE MEN WHO CREATED HIM.

CAPSLOCKED:


WHAT?
I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE. IF THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE, IF THEY CAN ACCEPT THAT SHEDRACH AND HIS FRIENDS WALKED IN A FIRE WITHOUT GETTING BURNT, THAT DANIEL SURVIVED THE LIONS DEN, THAT A TALKING SNAKE DECEIVED A WOMAN WHO WAS MADE FROM THE RIB OF A MAN WHO WAS MADE FROM SAND, THAT JONAH LIVED IN A LIVING FISH, THAT THERE WAS A PREGNANT VIRGIN AND A MAN WHO SPOKE TO THOUSANDS AT ONCE WITHOUT AN AMP AND FED THEM WITH 5 TINY LOAVES OF BREAD, THAT PEOPLE CAME OUT OF GRAVES WHEN ONE MAN DIED ON THE CROSS, THAT MEN ASCENDED INTO THE SKY ON FLYING HORSES, THAT THE WHOLE NILE TURNED TO BLOOD AND THOUSANDS CROSSED A SEA THAT WAS SPLIT INTO TWO... .. THEN THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT THE OTHER VERSES ABOUT RAPING AND KILLING CHILDREN AND WOMEN EXCEPT VIRGINS HAPPENED AS THE WILL OF GOD.
THERE'S NO NEED TO CHERRY-PICK ANYTHING, I'M NOT SURE GOD WOULD LIKE THAT.

IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS A CRUEL, EVIL, HOMOPHOBIC, GENOCIDAL, PATRIARCHAL, ENVIOUS, PROUD, TERRIBLE, BLOOD-THIRSTY MISOGYNIST.. EXACTLY LIKE THE STONE-AGE MEN WHO CREATED HIM.

OLAADEGBU:


So you believe that the 'Christian God' really exists and that the stories in the Bible about Him are true.

Chidorx60:

and you have made God the bad guy completely excluding the devil from the picture exactly what the devil wants. so don't you see that you and the devil are some kind of allies

CAPSLOCKED:


SOMETIMES I HAVE TO PLAY ALONG. IT'S FUN THAT WAY.



IMAGINE I UNLEASH MY MAD DOG IN A KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL.
NOW THESE LITTLE GUYS CAN'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST MY GIANT MENTAL DOG. I HAVE EVERY POWER TO RECALL OR TAME MY DOG AND PREVENT IT FROM TORMENTING THE LITTLE KIDS AND CAUSING COLOSSAL DAMAGE BUT I DON'T DO THAT. INSTEAD I EXPECT THEM TO FIND A WAY RESIST AND SURVIVE THE GIANT MAD DOG'S ATTACK.. AND OVER THE YEARS, THE ATTACKS DON'T STOP, AND KIDS ARE GETTING KILLED AND DESTROYED BY THIS BEAST.. BUT I STILL DO NOTHING EVEN THOUGH I HAVE ALL THE POWER TO TERMINATE THE DOG.

A REASONABLE RATIONAL PERSON WILL PUT THE BLAME ON ME INSTEAD OF THE DOG OR CHILDREN.

CAPSLOCKED:


SOMETIMES I HAVE TO PLAY ALONG. IT'S FUN THAT WAY.

OLAADEGBU:


Why don't you 'play along' with 'fairies,' 'Leprechauns' and the 'spaghetti monster'?

OH I DO THAT. I DON'T ALWAYS TELL CHILDREN THAT FAIRIES ARE FAKE OR THERE'S NO REAL SANTA.

OLAADEGBU:


Why don't you 'play along' with 'fairies,' 'Leprechauns' and the 'spaghetti monster'?