(September 26, 2008 at 10:34 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: It's good to reveal to people how most of the OT is immoral, but I also think we need to move on a bit too because that's already obvious to a lot of Christians. There are a lot of Christians who just follow the NT.
I think what would be interesting is finding and revealing some of the immoral stuff in the NT. I see less of this...but it isn't perfectly moral (especially the cruxificion). I'd like to see more criticism of the NT's morality.
The immorality stated in the OT existed prior to God's first encounter with Abraham. Prostitution, slavery, polygamy, etc. was already in practice long before Abraham slept with Haggai and conceived Ishmael.
As far as cultural laws instructed to Moses from God (aka Mosaic Laws), before we criticize them we have to know more about how they came about and why. It works like any other modern-day government. Laws are drafted to apply to what is currently happening on a social and economic level - and also to hopefully start changing the mentality of what is to start happening forward on.
For example, IF you have citizens who are already involved in polygamous marriages prior to the new seat of government it's not so cut and dry to divorce them without considering the long-term consequences. You can make it illegal so that such marriages will have to dissolve but then you eventually have to deal with giving assistance to single mothers and children, etc.
Anyways, I could bring up more examples but I'm sure we get the gist.
