Comment on Praise Be

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Old enough to be considered a woman, but culturally it could have been as young as 16.

  When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! (Luke 1:41-42)

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There wasn't consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      She did consent though. It’s in the account.

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      • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could have been as young as 13, as Virgin generally meant not ready for sex yet.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      She was called a woman by her cousin who was so old that John the Baptist’s birth was miraculous. She could have been older, not all women married young. But to be considered a woman she wouldn’t have been 13.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      however it is a misconception that people married and had kids young in the past. generally it was in your early 20s even in antiquity

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• Cruel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  She was pubescent, and thus irrelevant to pedophilia.

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