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Why did God give commandments to Jews?
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
I misread the title as condiments and was going to ask if I could borrow some mustard
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
So the conclusion is that if Jews didn't stone their women, didn't kill their firstborn sons, collected sticks on Sunday, etc, God would punish them by cursing them and giving them bad harvests. But at the same time, other nations didn't have to stone their women, didn't kill their firstborn sons, who collected sticks on Sunday and God did not punish them.

So it seems like God was some malice toward Jews and that they would be better off without him.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why did God give commandments to Jews?
More that god was or had already punished them. You have to keep in mind that old magic book was written well after the fact, and things like taboo breaking and race mixing were pointed to as why god had punished them. Old magic books entire prophetic corpus is a series of polemics on the issues of societal and moral decline as perceived by the authors. It's laws meant to foreclose on those outcomes then in evidence by the brute force of the listeners lived experience.
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