The Light of Lucifer on Divorce

[Maddog]

Says the man without daughters. You have to pay the bride price, of course you want it to be low. I have daughters. If I’m going to be giving them up for money then the price damn well better reflect their value to me.

Given a mother that trains her daughter, the daughter has intrinsic value to the household she comes from. It is like giving your best milker to a young man with no money, no career, doesnt know the first thing about being a farmer. Thats foolish on the part of dear old dad.

 

[OttoM]

Or you could admit how absurd this all sounds and examine whether or not the price of the virgin only applies when a virgin has been seduced and her father utterly refuses to give her up. That is the only scenario where we’re told about a bride price….

It's absurd sending daughters to college with no covering - where they will most likely rack up a body count - get into debt for a degree that most likely is worthless - and waste their youth away. Yet, this is the norm in modern Christianity.

How about instead of sending daughters to college without a covering - teach them to be good wives and mothers - and find a suitable husband for them that can provide and produce godly offspring - and just maybe that husband can fulfill some righteousness by showing some gratitude to her parents for raising her right - versus allowing her to do whatever she likes - dress however she likes - sleep with whomever she wants - thus producing a generation of rebellious wives and bad mothers.

 

[MemeFan]

In the previous covenant era betrothal was monetized in TIME- 7 years labor as well as cattle and silver. It had(has) value.

Yea, Jacob is great example.

Only reason he was willing to pay that much is because he was smitten.

Otherwise, you will finish dealing with "proffesional buyers". Nothing stops man from running several buying process at same time. Maybe even starting reverse auction.

 

[MemeFan]

Says the man without daughters. You have to pay the bride price, of course you want it to be low. I have daughters. If I’m going to be giving them up for money then the price damn well better reflect their value to me.

Except his willingness to pay depends on daughter's value to him, not you.

Btw, daughter is depreciating asset since older she is she can give less children plus they start going crazy.