(June 24, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Randy's point is that if God had come out and hit everyone with all the morals all at once, it wouldn't have worked. People wouldn't have listened. People would have just dismissed it all right away and never changed. So God had to do it slowly for it to actually work. That's all Randy is saying here. I don't see why that should make you want to vomit.
(i'm going to keep saying this is randy's position not mine so that I don't get accused of believing things I don't actually believe)
And my point is that God, as an extremely powerful being, would have known a million ways to get the Israelites to accept all the morals at once. Hell, he could have just poofed it into their brain.
What makes the vomit rise in my throat is that both you and Randy seem to think that forcing a woman to share a bed with her rapist for a lifetime, probably bearing his children, is somehow acceptable under any context.
Then swallow hard because it gets even better.
The woman taken into an Israelite home as a wife was fortunate. There, she would hear the Law of Moses and of God's covenant with Abraham, the father of the nation. She would learn of Adam & Eve, of Noah, of Jacob's journey to Egypt. She would learn about Pharoah and the mighty deeds performed before Pharaoh. She would learn of the Passover, the manna that fed the people in the desert and of all the feasts that God had instituted. She would learn of Moses and the burning bush as well as the 10 commandments given to Moses. Above all, she would learn to worship the true God instead of the lifeless idols and gods of other nations.
She would be a very lucky lady, indeed.
