Post by Cody™ on Jan 26, 2018 16:42:30 GMT
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I fail to see how any of this is relevant. The objection i raised was against Islam's 54 year old founder marrying a 6 year old and consummating the marriage at 9. How does creepy ancient rabbis and their man made self-serving laws excuse Muhammad of marrying and sleeping with a child?
I don't doubt that it was more common for girls to be married off at younger ages in biblical times. From what I've researched the cultural tradition was 12-16 and onwards. What I have an issue with is a 54 year old man marrying and sleeping with a little child. So should you be!
Thats your opinion. Here's the thing, the Quran is supposedly the uncreated eternal words of Allah dictated to Muhammad word for word. In it lies two falsification tests to allegedly prove it's divine inspiration. One of the challenges is if it isn't the word of God one could find contradictions and discrepancies. That means that if just one minor error can be found, the whole thing collapses. But when one inspects the Quran we find apocryphal stories about Jesus copied from gnostic forgeries, the trinity being described as Allah, Jesus and Mary, The sun setting in a pool of murky water, and the denial of Jesus' crucifixion, described by even liberal scholars as one of the most certain historical events in the life of Christ. So the Quran can be dismissed on this basis alone as it shoots itself in the foot.
The most authentic traditions, accepted by the overwhelming majority of Sunni Muslims and scholars teaches that Aisha was 6 during the marriage and 9 at the consummation.
Just take your shahada and be done with it.
For instance the rabbis in the Mishnah declare that a girl may be legally betrothed by intercourse as early as age three (Niddah 5:4). The age that a boy can contract a valid marriage appears to be age nine (Niddah 5:5 and other passages), even if extremes were largely hypothetical
That's because there was indeed no law against it and young marriage was possible in biblical times. Just because with have an issue with it today does not mean it was not happening then even if not common
Personally I would think something which was dictated to one man was likely to be more accurate than that which was 'inspired' over a long time, to many - then edited and interpolated, then ultimately given final form by a committee
So, see above about Mohammed's wife. There is no certainty of her age, so give your unpleasant and noxious claims around paedophilia a rest.
The most authentic traditions, accepted by the overwhelming majority of Sunni Muslims and scholars teaches that Aisha was 6 during the marriage and 9 at the consummation.
Just take your shahada and be done with it.