If a female was a woman's property, it was because of one of three reasons. She was a slave, a wife, or a daughter (a widow was her own, but was cared for by the community). You insist on saying I am claiming that to be property means to be a wife, I'm merely pointing out that to be a wife means to be property.
Are you suggesting the Bible is wrong? Are you suggesting God was wrong with the culture He created.
Not as much as defying the Bible does when arguing how it should be.
Does grace make adultery acceptable? Does grace make idolatry acceptable? Grace is that we don't have to pay the penalty for breaking the law, but the way we should live is how it was set up by God except where God Himself, through the Bible, changed it. As such, celibacy is more valued than marriage, but marriage is still good, but if we are to do such, we are to marry under the commandments given by Paul, which was traditional Jewish marriage back then. The Bible is clear in the New Testament that the wife belongs to the husband. It ADDS that the husband also belongs to the wife.
Actually that is backward. You were allowed to beat a slave, but if it took more than a day for him to recover from it, you were to be punished. I was spanked hard enough when I was a child that it took a day for me to recover. It was saying the max limit of a beating, which was limited to AT MOST a good spanking. If you caused any permanent injury to a slave, he was to be set free, and if he died, you were punished.
Read up on the Old Law before you attack it so much, because you are attacking the one who put that law in place when you attack it.
I am suggesting that the old covenant is past. I am suggesting that life under grace is infinitely better than life under the law. Not sure why this should surprise you as this is pretty standard fare. Your defense of the brutality of the old code is very telling.
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Romans 3
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the
law, but through the righteousness of faith. Romans 4:13
Moreover the
law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: Romans 5:20
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the
law, but under grace. Romans 6:14
For what the
law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: Romans 8:3
For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to every one that believeth. Romans 10:4
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law. Romans 13:10
But that no man is justified by the
law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:11
Is the
law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a
law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the
law. Galatians 3:21
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the
law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians 5:4
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the
law. Galatians 5:18
For all the
law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:14
Do I really need to go on? This is but a small sampling.