The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament

[athrock]

God basically rebooted the planet at the flood, so that's in a class by itself.

Wow, an arbitrary, self serving redefinition with no justification for why it should be accepted. I'm suitably chastened.  

The point is that god didn't need to work within human means to effect change there, nor did he give one single shit about human free will. He just reached down and made the change he wanted by force, meaning that the excuse you're making is contradicted by the source you're citing.

Incorrect. God chose to wipe out the pre-flood inhabitants as punishment for them and in order to start over due to the depth and breadth of the depravity of man which was the direct result of mankind's exercising its free will. In this case, God chose to punish behavior.

I mean, you can only let the kids at a slumber party roughhouse for so long before you finally have to step in and tell them to pipe down and go to sleep.

Only it was more serious than that, obviously.  

With the Israelites and slavery, God chose to mold behavior. 

Hey, slavery is offensive to us moderns today, but it was correctable. Apparently, the pre-flood inhabitants of the Earth were not teachable.

And I'll add this because it really silences critics like you and others: Because you cannot prove that God did not have a valid reason for either wiping out the Sodomites or merely correcting the Israelites, your charge of "moral monstership" is without merit, and frankly, I don't give a rat's ass how you feel about it.

You (and countless others) have TRIED to paint God as evil, but you've failed to make that accusation stick because there is nothing incompatible about God's actions in the OT and the idea of a loving God who cares for all his people. NOTHING.

The rest is just empty rhetoric. I'll keep reading solely out of courtesy.