(June 21, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Nope Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Fair enough, Jenny.
But this does not undermine my premise that God was training a people over the course of a long period of time.
If you want a curved piece of furniture, you have to work with the wood very slowly. Are people much different? See the Father's handiwork?
I'm confused, what does training people over a very long period of years have to do with the verses Jenny used? So, a Hebrew virgin that might be very young, is sold to a man by the person she probably trusted most, her dad. Her dad knows she will be raped and used for sex and yet he sells her anyway. Remember, bronze aged people were humans just like we are. The girl would have felt the betrayal and pain that any person would feel in such a situation. Her life meant nothing apparently to this god because he was using her suffering was being used to train some future group. Is that what you are saying, Randy?
I'm saying that God worked with the Hebrews based on what they could handle at the time...not based on what you think of it several thousand years later.
Things that WERE permitted at various times in the past are no longer permitted. God was more lenient with the Israelites early on than he was later.