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Originally Posted by beren
Antonia, please re read the Bible and you would find that almost none of you said is actually there. On few places Yahweh said in condemnation of Israel when they burned their children as an offering to Moloch and Baal ,that child sacrificing never ever came into his mind and that he is disgusted with it.
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The God of the OT is nothing like the God Yeshua portrays. The God of the OT wants blood sacrifice in substitution for the people shedding their own blood as payment. Blood is still blood. Jesus/Yeshua was a blood sacrifice to pay for the sins of the world... does it matter if it is 1 human sacrifice or 10 million? Sin is missing the mark of perfection. So to fail in 1 commandment is equal to failing all commandments.
The NT says slavery is ok if one reads Paul's writings regarding Onesimum (sp). Paul does not say to free their brother Onesimus who is a slave, but to treat him well. Why not free him? Well, because slavery was an acceptable practice. Jesus took the shackles off of women, and Paul put them right back on them. Paul says a lot of great things of spiritual value, but he sprinkles in complete spiritual garbage as well. Remind you of anyone?
What kind of God puts his children in a room with an asp and then punishes the children when they get bitten? That is essentially what happened to Adam and Eve in Genesis. What kind of God is willing to wipe out an entire race and start over as he suggested to Moses? If he could do that, why not just do a do over at the beginning when that crafty one messed up Adam and Eve?
Or how about what kind of God devalues the choice of a woman who gets raped and if her rapist pays a fine to her father and marries her is off the hook but can never divorce her? What woman would want to marry her rapist? Of course women are property, and don't get a say.
I could go on and on with the discrepancies in the God of the OT vs NT. Does it negate the important spiritual truths of the bible? No it doesn't, but please realize that much was written from an accepted societal stance, and not based on Divine law.