Concubines was most definitely not imited to Solomon...but he did seem to excel at the practice...LOL
Show me the passage where David referred to the wives of Saul as his wives. I only see where God says He gave them unto David's Bosom...literally his bed.
I never said anything about an age of consent or a minimum age to marry. You are confusing me with someone else on this one.
You defining adultery as including swinging, and then defining swinging in the way you decide it should be defined, is an opinion. You cannot scripturally back up those opinions though.
Every case you included did not include a woman who was married to another man. Swinging is when two married couples swap off.
And as for always being a victim in pedophilia, you have not shown an example of where there is NOT a victim.
Ok, so most of the earth population who was married underage before recent history. Aisha (Muhammad's wife). A 12 year old in Brazil who was married to a man twice her age, she fought in court for the right to marry her. Samantha Lott (Alabama resident who was 13 when she was married to an adult, the marriage occurred in South Carolina). A large number of individuals who were part of the Rind et. al study.
I believe that anythime an adult engages a child in sexual activity it is violating the law of love as the child is not emotionally mature enough to determine for themselves what is and is not appropriate.
This is based off of what? You are hand waving with terms such as 'emotional maturity' without defining it, even though mentally disabled adult with maturity on all levels below that of a pre-teen has been deemed able to consent by many individuals. Also, the law in many states clearly say a child who is married is able to consent to their spouse. Also, the Bible clearly allows the marrying of na'arah and younger, which by today's standard are definitely children.
By the very nature of the relationship they are succeptible to coercive influence even if they come to believe it is ok. We can train a child to be a master thief...and even convince them by simple brainwashing that they are not doing wrong in stealing.
Almost anyone can be brainwashed. It is only a matter of how much they trust the source. Just raise a child to not be blindly trusting of adults and a large portion of the problem is solved. Look into the psychological research of making people do things they don't want to do, it isn't that hard. So easy in fact that doing new research on the topic is mostly banned.
But that does not change the fact that we have victimized that child. Again...a clear violation of the law of love.
What fact they have been victimized? Clearly in a non-wanted relationship there is a victim, but in many cases of consensual relationships, the only time they are victimized is when they are trained for years by therapist to see they are a victim. The therapist will sometimes do far more to cause a child to be a victim. Read some books on it, "Harmful to Minors", "Jailbait", or "The Trauma Myth" are starts. Also some scientific studies such as the Rind et. al study.
I am amused at the simple dismissal of all these various sexual activities as "acceptable".
Eh, I wouldn't call my study into the topic as simple. In the case of bestiality, it is simple, but that is because we live in a society where we find it acceptable to kill and eat the animal. If I can kill and eat it for oral pleasure, then I can use it for sexual pleasure. Yeah, that is pretty simple.
The point I believe you are missing is WHY they were acceptable. I believe the answer is because God is not nearly so concerned with sex as He is with the condition of the heart as I have previously stated.
And I am indirectly aware of many relationships where the individuals involved feel this is the right thing to do.
But you are still ignoring what the Old Testament allowed and saying it was wrong. In doing so, you are calling God wrong.
