You mean the books that condone slavery,
Slavery existed before Bible writing began. The Mosaic Law made it more humane when the problem touched the Israelites. Jehovah dealt exclusively with Israel and His commandments were intended for them only, not for the rest of mankind. Trying to apply those laws to todays generation is a waste of time and shows a lack of understanding. Israel was the ONLY monotheistic nation on earth.
He is telling his word to Jacob, His regulations and his judicial decisions to Israel. He has not done that way to any other nation; And as for [his] judicial decisions, they have not known them. (Psalm 147:19-20)
Pagan nations did not have those Laws, nor were they interested in living like the Israelites.
Getting rid of slavery totally would have meant interfering with the nations that practiced it. He did not interfere and they preferred it that way. But when they interfered with Israel, trying to corrupt and enslave them again, He had to slap them down in order to protect his people. He did this by granting victory to Israel against overwhelming odds.
For, as regards Jehovah, his eyes are roving about through all the earth
to show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him. . . . (2 Chronicles 16:9)
He is still granting victories to his people today, in spite of overwhelming odds.
Even you, who claim to abhor slavery so much, are guilty of condoning and even supporting it.
punish adultery by death,
Since that applied only to Israel, what do you find wrong with it?
You are spreading a lie. There is no such place and the Bible does not teach it.
If you really know what genocide is you would not say that. Research it and then let us know if you find it to be engaged in by God's people in the Bible.
Since that applied only to ancient Israelites, what do you find wrong with it?
- you mean these books are inspired by God?
YES!
If you read and misunderstand them, you will take that view.
They are myths created by superstitious nomads who had no idea about evolution, biology, physics, geology, astronomy.
Show me one thing of a superstitious nature in the Bible.
You talk as if those things are all true and vital to life. Why is it that the very people who are versed in these things are unable to live in peace and are bent on destroying the earth and all life on it? What wisdom have they demonstrated with all that knowledge?
Nor did they have any idea about disease, that it is actually caused by bacteria, viruses, genetic mutations, hearts attacks and so on.
You are seriously mistaken! They knew how to deal with disease, how to prevent its transmission, all the necessary precautions that were passed on to them through the Mosaic Law.. (Le 13:1-59; 14:38, 46; Nu 19:11-13; De 23:9-14), )
These practices kept Israel healthy. On the other hand, what do we know about the pagan contemporary nations and their practice of healing?
"Ancient Egyptian knowledge of medicine has often been presented as quite scientific and advanced. While some knowledge of anatomy is evident and certain simple surgical methods were developed and cataloged, much ignorance is also revealed. Thus, while an Egyptian papyrus text speaks of the heart as being connected by vessels to every part of the body, the same text presents the vessels as carrying, not blood, but air, water, semen, and mucus.
Not only was there a fundamental misunderstanding of the functions of the living body, but the medical texts are heavily dosed with magic and superstition; magical spells and incantations make up a major portion of the information.
Remedies not only included beneficial herbs and plants but also prescribed such ingredients as the blood of mice, urine, or the excrement of flies, which, together with the spells, were calculated to drive the possessing demon out of the mans body in sheer disgust. (
History of Mankind, by J. Hawkes and Sir Leonard Woolley, 1963, Vol. I, p. 695)
Those were not the practices in Israel.
They thought that God caused disease on people who weren't holy enough.
Who told you that?
Show us where they did.
These books are no different than the countless other man-made scriptures which have already been discarded.
Isn't that curious? Why has the Bible, alone, persisted even in the face of the most vicious attempts to destroy it?
Because the same ideas were in circulation in the area in which they lived, the eastern mediterranean.
We'd like to see you substantiate that statement.
Which translations are we talking about here?
Any translation will do.
Jews do not believe in eternal torment, because its not in the OT.
Neither did they believe God's own son.
Most Christians believe it.
Only counterfeit Christians do. True Christians know better.
God is cast as perfect, yet he is so low as to torment people forever.
Show me a single case where the God of the Bible did that.
Check this out: Jeremiah 7:31.
The OT calls for stoning,
For what crimes?
Only for Israel. No other nation.
the NT says 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'.
That has been proven to be spurious.
There is no harmony between the books of the bible.
Let's see you prove that. I know what the Infidel websites say about it but you will find that it is not true.
They were written in different time periods, contain laws that were clearly manmade,
Let's see you name one.
contradict eachother numerous time,
There are no contradictions in the Bible, despite what others tell you.
and evolve around primitive animal sacrifice rituals.
Show us where the Bible EVOLVED around anything.
No rituals in Israel:
"By the time the Messiah arrived
the Jews had added many cleansing rituals that the Law did not require. Jesus related: When back from market, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves by sprinkling; and there are many other traditions that they have received to hold fast, baptisms of cups and pitchers and copper vessels.Mark 7:4." (w78 4/1 31-2)
They don't, or they were written after the fact, or they got lucky.
Did you check this out before you wrote it? Not so.
Besides, there is no such thing as luck.
Many of them are purposefully vague. Some of them probably were meant as motivational tools to stir up people to war.
That's what they say when the don't understand it.
Hey,if God says that we should attack the neighbouring nations and commit genocide on the populace - except for the virgin girls which we can take for ourselves, of course - we should do it right?
Who are you referring to as "we?" Did you ever get such a command?
Do you know of any modern nation that ever did?
Get some facts before you attack things you know nothing about.
Like what? Like an older book of the same kind is found, containing the same myths?
Do you mind substantiating that statement?
Or an ancient city is unearthed that is talked about in the bible? So? That has nothing to do with the bible being divinely inspired. Its just history.[/quote]
More like history corroborating prophecy.
The fulfillment of Biblical prophecy can and has been proved.
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