RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 3:11 pm by athrock.)
(January 24, 2016 at 12:17 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 12:08 pm)athrock Wrote: Nope. Incrementalism.
Think it through.
Why don't you? Are you seriously trying to tell me that the god who will drown the entire world when he's not being obeyed, will turn Lot's wife to salt for turning around when he told her not to, and will, indeed, raze Sodom and Gomorrah completely for not obeying him, suddenly has to walk on eggshells around what humans want when it comes to this one specific issue, and no others? That's seriously your position?
Methinks you're retrofitting shit into the text that was never there before.
Walking on eggshells is your characterization, not mine.
But you have mixed up the punishments of some people with the forming of another people.
God basically rebooted the planet at the flood, so that's in a class by itself. Lot's wife (and the dude who touch the Ark, btw) were pegged as a warning that God is not to be trifled with. We're still talking about them 3,000+ years later, so I think the lessons were pretty memorable. Sodom and the Canaanites were obliterated because they were perverse and needed killing.
I'm a bit annoyed with your failure to grasp basic concepts, so forgive me if I come across as unfeeling. I get that people were killed, but frankly, people on death row are executed routinely in the United States and in other countries. Sometimes, you just have to pull up the bad weeds so that the healthy plants can flourish.
So, there are three things here:
1. Zapping of individuals as a warning to others.
2. Punishment of peoples and nations which were steeped in sin.
3. The slow, methodical formation of an obstinate group of "bronze age goat herder" who eventually became the nation of Israel.
THAT is my position.
Quote:Incidentally, am I going to have to go through all your citations in the OP and point out each and every lie of omission you told there? I've done it before- you people aren't exactly original when it comes to your vile slavery apologetics- but I'd much prefer it if you'd just be honest for once. Can you do that, or am I going to have to hold you accountable for your dishonesty?
Sure, Ex-Lax. Show me where I lied.
