(June 28, 2016 at 10:41 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 28, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Can you appreciate the difficulty of having such a discussion when it begins to center around a persons belief that slavery is a mercifully logical solution to the problems presented by the killing of a persons parents or provider?
Could have just, IDK< not killed their parents, could have taken them in as your own, could have employed them gainfully, could have made reperations from the bounty of your conquest.
Nope, it's all red lights and partytime...mercifully, logically....... blessedly. Amen.
So your solution was to be the pacifist nation among all constantly warring people of the middle east? The Israelites were not particularly war-like. Mostly wars were defensive in nature. They stayed put after the initial conquest for over a 1000 years--with some breaks when they were carted away as slaves.
What about the poor? The people who needed the safety net that selling yourself or family member provided over misery and possible death? You do realize that these practices were done thousands of years before and 2000 years after Exodus 21.
He's GOD! Why didn't he just appear to ALL of the people?! Why didn't he just say "Don't own people as property"?! Do you seriously think your God is incapable of finding a better solution to these problems? It's just not good enough.
