A USED WOMAN. A city gal with a bad reputation kneels at the feet of Jesus. Unmarried gals who had already had sex, by rape or by choice, weren’t likely to ever get married. Men shopping for a wife were looking for new models, not used. Painting by Andrey Mironov.
ONE OF THE STRANGEST laws in the Bible, as far as I’m concerned, is this one about what should happen to a man who rapes a Jewish virgin.
“The man who raped her has to give her father fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took advantage of her. And he can never divorce her” (Deuteronomy 22:29).
Go ahead. Explain that one.
I’ll not reprint the answer here. You can read it on the flip book I posted on my website:Flipbook.
The law is so troubling that I decided to create a short video on the topic. I just released it on Friday. It’s called Marriage by Rape.
I’ll embed it into this article for you. It runs less than five minutes.
 
Many Catholic Christians say the bread and wine of Mass become the actual body and blood of Jesus because he said, “This is my body….This is my blood,” (Luke 22:19-20CEV). Most Protestant say the bread and wine only represent the body and blood. The first church manual—Didache—says nothing about the bread and wine morphing into flesh and blood. 100 Tough Questions about God and the Bible, p. 64.
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