RE: General question about the possibility of objective moral truth
September 14, 2015 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 2:04 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
I feel I should provide a bit more commentary on the issue of slavery in the Mosaic laws.
I honestly do not know why God permitted slavery. I can only suppose that immediate abolition would have been more harmful to the divine plan than temporary regulations for insuring the humane treatment of slaves. Sometimes our choices are between bad and worse. On Thursday, my wife and I were spared the heartbreaking choice between euthanizing or prolonging the suffering of our little dog Asta, our friend and companion of 13 years. His last gift to us was to die peacefully in our arms. So if you want an answer, I can only point you to Job 39, which in addition to Rev 21, has given me great comfort in my grief.
A close reading shows that God told Moses that Aaron would speak to the people and that Moses would be “as a god to him” (Ex 4:16). This elevates Moses to the divine council and because he was human the laws and ordinance he issued after the preamble of 'Thus saith the Lord' represent how he chose to govern the people over whom he was given charge.
Nestor, I do believe that most all the events in the biblical text happened as generally described. Recently a compelling case has been made for the Exodus in a documentary titled “Patterns of Evidence.”
I honestly do not know why God permitted slavery. I can only suppose that immediate abolition would have been more harmful to the divine plan than temporary regulations for insuring the humane treatment of slaves. Sometimes our choices are between bad and worse. On Thursday, my wife and I were spared the heartbreaking choice between euthanizing or prolonging the suffering of our little dog Asta, our friend and companion of 13 years. His last gift to us was to die peacefully in our arms. So if you want an answer, I can only point you to Job 39, which in addition to Rev 21, has given me great comfort in my grief.
A close reading shows that God told Moses that Aaron would speak to the people and that Moses would be “as a god to him” (Ex 4:16). This elevates Moses to the divine council and because he was human the laws and ordinance he issued after the preamble of 'Thus saith the Lord' represent how he chose to govern the people over whom he was given charge.
Nestor, I do believe that most all the events in the biblical text happened as generally described. Recently a compelling case has been made for the Exodus in a documentary titled “Patterns of Evidence.”
