Suppose a man marries a woman,
but after sleeping with her, he turns against her
and publicly accuses her of shameful conduct, saying,
“When I married this woman,
I discovered she was not a virgin.”
[...] The men of the town must stone her to death.
—Deuteronomy 22:13-21
It was tough to find applicable wisdom for today’s world in Deuteronomy, but reading it made me wonder why we throw out a huge percentage of the rules God supposedly laid out for us, while choosing to hold onto others—particularly in the realm of sexuality, which still seems to be stigmatized by the church and society.
Do you still put women apart for seven days because her “issue in her flesh be blood”?
Do you think if your son doesn’t listen to his parents, he should be stoned to death?
Do you think if a priest’s daughter defiles herself with promiscuity, she should be burned alive?
Do you believe a crippled man or a hunchback or a dwarf has no right to approach the altar of God because he’s defected?
No? Then why do you hold onto guilt around sexual stigmas tied to the Bible?
Some of these rules might get God canceled on Twitter, for Pete’s sake, so who arbitrarily picks which ones stay and which ones go? I must’ve missed the voting ballot.
If, for example, two consenting adults wish to open their marriage to include others, should this be condemned under the banner of “adultery”? Meanwhile, the morals regarding slave ownership and rules for stoning others sandwich this one.
If whoever has the answer to these questions could please dial in to the show and explain it to us, [Office Space voice] “That’d be great.”
(Please enjoy this complimentary ad for ChristianSwingers.com while your party is reached.)
Maybe the lesson here is that change is the only constant, and no one should have the authority to choose which rules are relevant today and which are as archaic as the times they were written. Except for that one about putting women to death if you find out they aren’t virgins. Obviously, some things should never change.