(June 29, 2016 at 10:14 am)SteveII Wrote:(June 29, 2016 at 5:41 am)Veritas_Vincit Wrote: 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.
Would God know of a better solution: yes, certainly.
Could a nation of loosely grouped tribes create a centralized government that was capable of providing a safety net for the poor and refugee camps (with a long-term resettlement plan) for the displaced after a military campaign? Highly unlikely.
To make your point, you can't simply say "God could have...". It is not that easy--you would have to give a plausible scenario. You also did not make the case that God condones slavery. Since the penalty of kidnapping and selling someone into slavery was death, the goal of the system was obviously not for slavery itself. The best thing for the greatest number of people seems to have been to regulate a practice that had been going on for literally thousands of years.
So let me get this straight. You're saying that the best solution that the all loving, all knowing, all powerful creator of the universe can come up with to deal with people keeping slaves is to... tell them to keep slaves on his own authority, tell them who they can enslave, how they can keep them as property to be passed down, how to turn a 7-year slave into a permanent slave, and that it's fine to beat a slave with a rod as long as he doesn't die within two days.
That's it? That's your moral law giver? That's the best he can do?
That's just pathetic.
