[MHalblaub]

Did you understand my sentences?

Eva, Maria Magdalena, Rahab and Tamar...

I got (Gen. 38, 12-19; Jos. 2, 1-7; 1. Kor. 6, 12-20)
Did you have other sources about prostitution? Just tell me, please. Then we can go on.
(Just for those who didn't get it right.
NO, I don't need some phone numbers! )


What do you think about:
- polygamy
- woman having sex with the brothers of her dead husband
- sex with slaves
- concubinage
- women as property
- marriage for women at 11 years

[Dominick]

Those are all red herrings. Gen 28 8-26 is the whole story where he was obligated by Jewish law and made to obey it by trickery. She wasn't a prostitute., The Story of Joshua was about a harlots house. The Corinthians citation didn't refer to sins Paul refers to elsewhere. Why the red herrings? I made the case that a prostitution was not licit.

Duet 23:18-19 There shall be no temple harlot among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men. You shall not offer a harlot's fee or a dog's price as any kind of votive offering in the house of the LORD, your God; both these things are an abomination to the LORD, your God.
Lev 19:29 "You shall not degrade your daughter by making a prostitute of her; else the land will become corrupt and full of lewdness. "
In any case, the problem of prostitution can't be justified, period. Anyone who has lived around this problem knows what follows prostitution, other crimes, drugs, and ultimate poverty.

None of these acts of people in the Bible make prostitution licit.