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Not long ago, the governor of Illinois discovered they had over a dozen men on death row who had been convicted without a single piece of evidence other than coerced confessions. They hadn't even proven by any other evidence that the convicted men had ever been at the scenes or in contact with...

For people in the first century, there was no "marriage" until there was consummation. That's what "marriage" meant. Until then, it was "betrothal." Now, betrothals were also pretty legally and morally binding, but not so much as after the consummation--the marriage--had taken place. And...

I think you have their intention backwards. In those days, a person arrested for a crime might be held for days, weeks, or months just awaiting charges (usually for political reasons). That situation is what the Constitution intended to prohibit. The first official "bail" law in the US wasn't...

Not to disagree with your position on pedophilia, but that assertion is ill-considered. Rules of respectability should be the social embodiment of what is good behavior. That's not true. Look at Paul's guidelines for selecting church leadership...community respectability is right up there...

In my latter years in the military, there were a number of circumstances in which junior ranking men nevertheless exerted power against higher ranking women...even in the modern era, the power dynamic learned in the younger years doesn't vanish Bathsheba was raised in an environment where men...

It does, however, correlate with what would have been a definite lack of the respect that Jesus received from His brothers if He'd been the eldest.

The purpose of marriage was procreation. Those people understood very well that any female animal had to reach a certain level of maturity before it could be bred...too soon, and it would be ruined for breeding purposes. They understood the same was true of human women...remember the purpose...

I go along with the second wife theory.

Joseph was a man. Don't pretend there was no difference in the power dynamics of men versus women. Where in the Law does it say the judge is ultimately the king? God didn't even want them to have kings...the Law he gave to Moses does not share authority with a king. That is authority the kings...

Bathsheba was doing her post-menstrual ceremonial ablutions in the public mikvah. That's why the writer could know she was immediately post-menstrual. She would have been fully clothed as she went into the water, and she would not have been the only woman doing so.

There isn't anything to deduce about Bathsheba's other actions. What does scripture actually say about her discretion? At no point does scripture say Bathsheba was either willing or had discretion. People in more modern times suppose that she did, but she had no agency, no discretion at all...

God is more just than any rabbi. The fact is, Bathsheba is compared to a lamb, and a lamb is the indisputable symbol of innocence in scripture.

You don't know that she didn't. You also don't know that she "walked." Bathsheba was arrested. In fact, it wasn't completely clear that David wasn't fully within his authority to take her. The role and authority of the king wasn't clear at that point even in the light of the Law (it was the...

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. .... And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he...

That is still rape.

In the military, that measure of progress is the basis of a troop's performance report. A troop who has progressed from below average to "meets standards" can thus get a better performance report than a troop who has simply maintained "meets standards." If you testing process is good enough to...

That wasn't infighting, that was public law passed by Congress. Congress erected what we call "The Wall" between the foreign and domestic intelligence agencies in the US, and that wall still exists. Let's say an FBI intelligence analyst is tracking the background of a suspicious person...

"Wholly inappropriate" is your own philosophical opinion. It was "wholly inappropriate" for Him in the opinion of others to have Rahab in the Savior's family tree.

It was more when people whose "trans" needed to be in quotes who caused the problem.

Pinpointing unit-by-unit financial assistance to a foreign nation is more difficult (and can certainly be made more difficult) than it sounds.