As against that you have ─
God's rules for how to sell your daughter (Exodus 21:7)
God's rules for the massacre of surrendered populations eg Numbers 31:9-17
and Joshua 6:17, 6:21 (Jericho)
God's rules for mass rape of the young females (the same, Numbers 31:9-17)
God's affection for human...
Well if I warned you about jumping off cliffs, and I gave graphic details on how your skull will make contact with a rock, and split open, I am not the one bursting your head, and that doesn't mean I take delight in it.
Because God reveals the outcome of a wayward people, it doesn't mean he did...
The Gibeonites impaled them. The people killed were innocent of any wrongdoing, chosen because they were descendants of Saul.
God required their killing as a condition of lifting a famine God had imposed.
Human sacrifice, demanded by God.
Charming deity that, hey? Screw righteousness...
Yes. For example, an all powerful God could, torture a helpless created being, just for the fun of it.
However, this is if the all powerful God is lacking the qualities of love, justice, compassion, mercy....
In other word, just a lot of muscle, and that's it. Or just muscle and evil intent...
An omnipotent being could express [him]self via any set of personality traits [he] wished, yes.
I see a great deal of evidence in the bible that God is not righteous at all, much as righteousness is frequently claimed for [him].
For example I don't think human sacrifice is righteous ─ I think...
Where does this nonsense come from that abortion and infanticide are atheist ideas?
Exodus 22:29-30 You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.
Hosea 13: 16...
I approach the Tanakh as I'd approach any other ancient set of documents ─ in each case what, when, where, who, why. I have no desire to impose any view on them, rather for them to identify their own narrative, purpose and (often enough) politics.
So let me quote you the RSV's translation of...
Very little in the NT explains anything about the Tanakh. Instead the Tanakh is used in a kind of far out Christian midrash manner to be reimagined for whatever fables pleased the author.
Hosea 13 is addressed on behalf of the Jewish God against the Israelites who are accused of forsaking that...
I find it is one thing to post a verse or two such as Exodus 22:29-30 but why without application.
Those verses are explained for us at Luke 2:21-24.
On the 8th day was circumcision, and when Jesus was 40 days old he was taken to Jerusalem.
Hosea13:16 and 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 17:17-18; 21:6...
God appears to have no trouble with ideas like abortion and infanticide. [He]'s the author of every miscarriage in nature, for example, humans included.
And the bible sets the tone eg :
Exodus 22:29-30 You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep...
I reject your definition of sin as immoral and merely authoritarian, and I justify my definition, though I would usually use the word 'bad' or 'wrong', because it aims to do no harm.
You meanwhile think it's moral to have invasive war, massacre of populations, mass rape, human sacrifice, all...
Check out these Bible gems of brutality and violence.....
Hosea 13: 16
16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,
because they have rebelled against their God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to the ground,
their pregnant women ripped open.”...
Samaria (Amos 3:9-10) is Not the Garden of Eden
Fallen mankind could have easily made animal kind extinct.
From Eden lost to Eden regained - Isaiah 65:25
The mustard seed was the smallest seed they would’ve been planting so yes true and reliable as well as how the parable describes the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven and also for today. Sorry if you cannot comprehend that but this illustration is how you view things.
A dad tells his son to stop...
You never answered, you asked ME if those were claimed to be 'good things',
Boring...
You have a hard time keeping things straight, so let me cast some pearls before swine...then I see no reason to continue - you make assertions that you 'support' with more assertions. Standard religious...
Hosea13:16
King James Version
16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
I've seen bible-types try to rescue this by claiming it is mere...