“Just curious, what is the Biblical age of consent? I thought Mary was in her early to mid teens when she gave birth to Jesus.”
For marriage, there is no age limit I am aware of. Just consent of her parents.
But we aren’t talking about marriage, which is a protection for women and children.
We are talking about fornication, which is an exploitation and degradation of women and children.
It is a sad day on FR when the two are equated.
Not equating, just genuinely curious. Different societies claim adulthood at different ages. Jewish males are treated as adults after their Bar Mitzvah, which occurs around their 13th birthday. I am going out on a limb here, but I would be willing to guess that in Biblical times anyone over 13 was an adult.
We’ve decided 18 or 21 (or 27) is now adulthood. Why is our age requirement better than their age requirement?