(June 21, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Nope Wrote: 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.
Why not just make better Hebrews from the start? This idea that he had to train people by making them slaves and having them raped seems a little ridiculous when he could of just included it in his instruction manual, instead of having it say the opposite.
