(January 24, 2016 at 11:20 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Your guitar analogy fails because playing the guitar is a skill set that has to be acquired over time. What is the analogous skill set involved with understanding You will not enslave other people for any reason -- especially when the one issuing the order has a supposedly demonstrated track record of kicking the shit out of those who don't conform to his will?
It doesn't take much time to understand it; it takes longer to accept and embrace it - especially in light of the fact that every other nation (as highlighted by Jorm) was not only practicing slavery but enslaving the Israelites themselves (cf. the Babylonian captivity).
I mean, "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is easily understandable, but do you think that it vanished overnight?
How about ever?
