Colonel Valerio
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Just because it was a common practice doesn't mean that it's moral. If the Bible is the ultimate source of morality it should have been above world norms.So here is your issue, capital punishment.
Yet that was the norm at that time so why exactly it's evil?
Was it not a persuasive way to use a law as a deterrent tool?
Yes so God forced women to marry their rapists. Good chap eh?You talked about r*pe but we can prove that the 'rapist' must be as virgin as the girl since adultery was forbidden plus he can't divorce which means he must provide for the needs of the woman forever.
When its thisYou talk about genocide but since when war means genocide ?
"5. Genocide after genocide after genocide.
In
Joshua 6:20-21
, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” In
Deuteronomy 2:32-35
, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children. In
Deuteronomy 3:3-7
, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan. In
Numbers 31:7-18
, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In
1 Samuel 15:1-9
, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites – men, women, children, infants, and their cattle – for something the Amalekites’ ancestors had done 400 years earlier."
Would you say it's inherently evil to stop nations who practiced child sacrifice knowing that you must offer peace first according to Deuteronomy 20:10?
So to stop child sacrifice we will kill all of them? Kill more children to stop child sacrifice? Makes sense. To be honest I find that line as believable as WMD's in Iraq.
http://www.betterthanfaith.com/tracts/god-loves-slaveryAbout slavery, I would like to see how it could be practiced with this verse :
“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him.
Deuteronomy 23:15-16
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Get real man, Yahweh hates women so much that he told men it was ok to sell their daughters as sex slaves.
Yeah and? The Ancient world sucked and we have actually came a long way. No one says Plato or Aristotle is the divine living word of God but they do say that about the Bible.A lot of things could be said but when people judge the Bible with their culture I wonder if they're aware that Greek philosophers said that capital punishments were moral and slavery was a human right (Plato, Aristotle, ect...).
Christians ended slavery and capital punishment isn't practiced in most western countries. Slavery and human trafficking is still practiced in many Asian culture today but who will disagree that it is part of their culture?
Things can be part of someone's culture and still be immoral.