(December 2, 2014 at 2:11 pm)Tonus Wrote: I can recall that the JWs felt that the laws and regulations given the nation of Israel set them apart from the other nations and cultures, and I think I've seen that argument made on this forum once or twice as well.I remember that too.
The problem is that the "laws" for slavery and rape and just brushed off as, "Well, that's what the cultures were like at the time. God was just giving regulations that improved the conditions a little above the rest of the land."
If God wanted these people to be set apart from the 'heathen' nations, then regulations (that you would think would come from an omniscient omnipotent deity) like, "Don't keep slaves, period. Don't rape women from conquered nations, period.", would have set them apart even more.
Instead it seems these regulations were just going with the flow of the times.
