thom w wrote:
Why are no Christians commenting on the original post quoting the bible concerning having sex with female children as long as they were spoils of war?
Here Thom... for your eyes only, an explanation on the original post.
Numbers 31:12-18 (NKJV)
12 Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
13 And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.
14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.
15
And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive?
16 Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.17 Now therefore, k**l every male among the little ones, and k**l every woman who has known a man intimately.
18 But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.
Bible Knowledge Commentary 31:13-18. When Moses met the returning army he was angry when he saw the Midianite survivors. The Midianite women, he said, should have died because they were directly culpable in Israel's sin at Baal of Peor. All the women except the virgins were then sentenced to death along with all the boys. This insured the extermination of the Midianites and thus prevented them from ever again seducing Israel to sin. Reference to Midianites in later history (e.g., Judges 6:1-6) no doubt implies either a different clan or family from those in Numbers or the possibility that some escaped God's vengeance. The virgins were spared because they obviously had had no role in the Baal of Peor incident nor could they by themselves perpetuate the Midianite peoples. Nonetheless, strict application of the rules of holy war dictated that they too should have been k**led (Deut. 20:16), so it was only a concession by Moses that allowed them to live.
Matthew Henry ConciseThose Slain Who Caused Sin (31:13-18)
The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the h**efulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for s***es, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.