(August 7, 2010 at 2:43 am)solja247 Wrote: You sure your not looking at the verses out of context?Have you read the bible?
(August 7, 2010 at 2:43 am)solja247 Wrote: You should read an incredible short book called, 'Whos Afraid of the God of the Old Testament' by Alden Thomson, an incredible book!I really could care less how strange some people's actions were in that day and age. God's go-to response for most things tends to involve anything from mass genocide to mass genocide for literally any reason and a lot of it is our fault for being who and what we are.
When the Israelites were around, back in the not so good old days, there wars a lot of funny religious practices, such as, sacrificing your first born son to Molech. 'Holy' orgies (If thats even possible) and here comes the fun part mutilating ones genitals. These practices and religions were all very appealing to the Jews and were more pagan than Jewish, if you look at the history. I believe, if it was God, showed Himself as being a jealous God who hated worship of other gods, because He didnt want the jews to be morally deprived. God was dealing with stupid people, He couldnt show His love and true nature, as He was dealing with people who couldnt deal with such a God.
If god didn't want us to act a certain way, he should have built us that way.
(August 7, 2010 at 2:43 am)solja247 Wrote: Perhaps what you are seeing is the reflection of what the culture was like, not the character of God.Again, have you read the bible? I dont' think we've read the same book here. I have the King James version.