RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 24, 2016 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 4:19 pm by athrock.)
(January 24, 2016 at 1:43 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Also the fallacy of presentism doesn't make any sense. Why shouldn't we judge the behavior of god by today's standards? If God's morality is truly objective, then the time period by which it is judged should not matter. If it does matter, then it is not by any means objective. And therefore Yahweh is again, excluded from being God. Therefore being a Christian makes absolutely no sense by this argument. If Yahweh has limitations, then he is not any Supreme Being.
Because, Cecelia, you're not simply judging God's behavior in light of today's standards. You're fallaciously attempting to read today's standards back into God's interaction with a more primitive people. You can't do that. Not honestly, anyway.
God acted then according to what the people then could handle. And in doing so, he moved all of humanity forward TOWARD today's standards because the written account of the people of God, the Bible, has had an undeniably positive impact on mankind.
