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Trevor Blake: What Can God Do with 32 Virgins? [LINK-ZUM]

In Numbers 31, we read that God directed Moses in war against the Midianites. God commanded that all the Midian men and boys were to be killed, as were the women and girls who were not virgins. The Midian cities were to be burned to the ground and certain offerings were made to God (more about those offerings later). Moses does all these things, and Numbers 31 includes a list of all the spoils of war he gained because he did as God commanded.

I will set aside for now the question of whether God or Moses ever existed, and the question of whether what they did was right or wrong, and the question what all this might mean for today's believer in God. I will instead try to answer the question of what Numbers 31:40 might mean. Check any edition of the Bible you prefer or which you feel is the most accurate. Numbers 31:40 states that God wanted thirty-two of the virgins reserved for Himself. What can God do with thirty-two virgins?

Does God want them offered up as human sacrifices (Genesis 38:24; Judges 11:29-39)?
Will God make them eat children (Deuteronomy 28:56-57; Lamentations 2:20-22, 4:10-11)?
Maybe God wants them to be raped in public (2 Samuel 12:11-12).
God might want to just lock them in a room for the rest of their lives (2 Samuel 20:3).
Feed them to dogs? Throw them off walls? Trample them with horses? Sometimes God does that to women (1 Kings 21:23, 25; 2 Kings 9:33-37).
Sometimes God makes women go bald, get stinking scabs on their heads and forcibly disrobes them (Isaiah 3:16-17, 32:6).
Here's an idea. Maybe God wants to parade the women naked in front of their family then kill them. Or cut off their nose and ears, make them pull off their own breasts, be raped and mutilated, then stoned to death. He's God, God can do that (Ezekiel 23:1-49).
God could have them sold into sex slavery (Hosea 4:13).
If God had a mind too, God could make these women barren, or get them pregnant then force a miscarriage, or kill their babies in the womb (Luke 1:31, Hosea 9:14).
God kills women by dashing them against children, if He wants (Hosea 10:14).
God might want to throw "abominable filth" at these women (Nahum 3:4-6).
God has these women where God wants them, but God might just abandon them (Mark 10:29-30; Luke 5:11, 18:29-30).

Please, check the Bible for yourself to see if what I have written here is true to what God does to women. So I will ask again - what can God do with thirty-two virgins? The Bible offers at least twelve possible answers. But maybe a better question to ask is this: why do people consider the Bible to be a worthy source for morality? If you have reason in your head and compassion in your heart, you have to admit the Bible is full of mean-spirited nonsense. Don't sacrifice yourself or your morals to an invisible monster that lives in the sky. You're worth much more than that.

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