(July 11, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: ...
Also, I think you're failing to realize that the only reason their lives depended on obedience is that god made a habit of murdering those who disobeyed him. Aside from that, there's really nothing in the old laws that inherently protected them from anything. In the Old Testament, at least, the biggest danger of disobeying god is actually god's wrath, not worldly dangers like disease or conquest.
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That is an excellent point.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.