(November 11, 2009 at 7:57 pm)Secularone Wrote: Many of the Bible's commandments damage lives without just cause and are themselves immoral.
The NT teaches that all the law of the OT and the prophets of the OT can be summed up in two commandments:
"Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"
and
"Love thy neighbor as thyself"
See Matt. 22:37-40
Are you saying these are commandments that damage lives without just cause and are immoral? If not, what commandments are you talking about? (BTW, I think your characterization of anything as immoral is quite meaningless really unless you hold to some objective standard of morality. Do you?)