(January 10, 2015 at 10:09 am)robvalue Wrote: I read it, but you pretty much repeated yourself without addressing the points I made.
God is all powerful, remember? If he wants no slaves, there's no slaves. Or is he not powerful enough to do that?
God doesn't want murder, divorce, prostitution, evil thoughts too. No sin. But obviously we ain't getting that. Free will remember?
Might as well command some people to decrease the amount of cruelty to them.
And you say it was a moral code of their time. I agree with you but only partially. LEVITICUS was the moral code ONLY. The first 5 books were written over 600 years not only moses. The bible as we know it didn't exist then.
To be honest I don't know why the early church fathers included leviticus I really don't.
By the time of jesus the world had evolved enough for people to make decisions without any laws. Love god and love your neighbor are the only 2 laws we really need. The world would be a much better place if everyone followed this and the 10 commandments
