(June 21, 2015 at 12:39 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: What you just posted in bold has absolutely nothing to do with slavery, another dishonest attempt to avoid the point. You tried to accuse people of misrepresenting slavery of the bible while leaving out a huge portion of it and trying to downplay it. Your not trying to explain it because if you where you would not have left out a lot of the really heinous parts, what you are trying to do is downplay the atrocities commanded by your pathetic holy book.
Why is it that every time YOU fail to understand or agree with me, I'm being dishonest. Maybe you're just being stupid.
What I quoted from Jesus is an EXAMPLE of the way that He took something that WAS permitted in the OT (like divorce) and said, in effect, "Okay, this is no longer acceptable."
IOW, God turned the screws of the clamps a little tighter to bring His people more closely in line with His will.
Do you know what it means to train a vine? It requires patience and pruning; otherwise, the vine will break.
Ya its an example of what jesus said about divorce, but he didn't say anything about slavery! Your example is stupid! Then by your own logic jesus must of been ok with slavery if he didnt change it. I don't care about training a vine, dumb analogies are not going convince me that enslaving people, killing people, torturing people and raining genocide on people was some great training tool to make people treat each other better, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
