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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
I know not believe? Huh?
Oh, you stopped reading my posts? That's nice.
Bottom line is this, you believe that 53 year old men can marry 6 year old girls, and consummate the marriage when she is nine.
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You must have missed our earlier discussion about marriage law at the time of Jesus.
Yes. I believe that in the 7th and 8th century it was religiously and historically acceptable for a 53 year old man to arrange a marriage with a 6 year old girl and consummate that marriage when she was nine.
At the time this was the position of the church (the only church) 400 years AFTER this horrible sin:
In the 12th century, the jurist Gratian, an influential founder of Canon law in medieval Europe, accepted the age of puberty for marriage to be between 12 and 14, but acknowledged consent to be meaningful if the children were older than 7.
There were authorities with a claim that consent could take place earlier. Marriage would then be valid as long as neither of the two parties annulled the marital agreement before reaching puberty, or if they had already consummated the marriage.
It should be noted that Judges honored marriages based on mutual consent at ages younger than 7, in spite of what Gratian had said; there are recorded marriages of 2 and 3 year olds
Were you going to dig through history and find that elusive verse or teaching that declares otherwise? The bible is silent on this.
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