(February 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Tonus Wrote: It certainly is interesting that just after commanding them not to kill, god gives the Israelites a list of things that they can kill people for doing. Then later he promises to give them a homeland of their own... if they kill or enslave the current tenants (unless they are virgin girls). Only religion could make rape seem like a better option.
God promised the land long before the Ten Commandments.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
