(October 16, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: No it's not cherry picking it's called historical context. If our morality and values have improved over the centuries, and they certainly have overall, then we have achieved this through our relationship with God the source of all things who loves all people equally.
So you're saying that certain biblical commandments were immoral, but commanded by god due to the context of the time? The same god who happily turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for disobeying him in the most piffling of ways, damn near committed omnicide over perceived immorality, and is apparently the giver of objective moral laws?
That god needed to take into account the realities of the people around him? And somehow, all the moral improvements since then are also his doing, because you say so? And despite the fact that this god never bothered to correct the people- equally adamant that they were doing his will- that fought tooth and nail against those moral improvements, all in his name? Seriously?
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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