Frankenstein
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Keep em coming and I will just knock em out of the park!Actually, it doesn't condemn it.
Incest: Abraham was fucking Sarah, who was his half sister. That's when he wasn't pimping her out to Kings to get more goodies.
Human Sacrifice: God clearly endorsed Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter, because he gave him victories before and after the murder.
Genocide - God not only endorsed genocide of the various people's of Canaan, but he demanded complete genocide of the Amalekites. Saul lost favor because even though he happily killed women and children, for some reason, God was upset he didn't kill the Amalekites' cattle.
Slavery - God is down with slavery. Never calls it bad once in the bible
Cannibalism- God is down with Cannibalism.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. Leviticus 26:29
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons andof thy daughters. Deuteronomy 28:53
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them. Deuteronomy 28:57
I absolutely want kids learning about the Bible, but not in the Sunday School, let's just take the nice passages and Disney them up.
Nope. I want them to see what savages the ancient Hebrews were, so we stop looking to them as a source of morality.
10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, âI know what a beautiful woman you are. 12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, âThis is his wife.â Then they will kill me but will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.â
In Leviticus 26, God lists various punishments which will come if the Israelites disobey his commands. The chapter lists four forms of punishment for disobedience, and that if the Israelites continue to disobey, the final punishment will be God giving full vent to his hostility, and âthen you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughtersâ (Leviticus 26:29).
Deuteronomy 28 repeats this warning in similar language, describing how God will allow enemies to lay siege to the Israelite cities and the behavior that the Israelites will descend into. Interestingly, this seems to phrase the warning with more emphasis on how the people will be shocked at how barbaric they become, where âthe most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassionâ (Deuteronomy 28:54).
The law allowed for Hebrew men and women to sell themselves into slavery to another Hebrew. They could only serve for six years, however. In the seventh year, they were to be set free (Exodus 21:2). This arrangement amounted to what we might call indentured servanthood. And the slaves were to be treated well: âDo not make them work as slaves. They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among youâ (Leviticus 25:39â40). The law also specified that, âwhen you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed youâ (Deuteronomy 15:13â14). The freed slave had the option of staying with his master and becoming a âservant for lifeâ (Exodus 21:5â6).
The Canaanite nations were punished because of their extreme wickedness. God did not cast out the Canaanites for being a particular race or ethnic group. God did not send the Israelites into the land of Canaan to destroy a number of righteous nations. On the contrary, the Canaanite nations were horribly depraved. They practiced âabominable customsâ (Leviticus 18:30) and did âdetestable thingsâ (Deuteronomy 18:9, NASB). They practiced idolatry, witchcraft, soothsaying, and sorcery. They attempted to cast spells upon people and call up the dead (Deuteronomy 18:10-11).
Their âcultic practice was barbarous and thoroughly licentiousâ (Unger, 1954, p. 175). Their âdeitiesâŚhad no moral character whatever,â which âmust have brought out the worst traits in their devotees and entailed many of the most demoralizing practices of the time,â including sensuous nudity, orgiastic nature-worship, snake worship, and even child sacrifice (Unger, p. 175; cf. Albright, 1940, p. 214). As Moses wrote, the inhabitants of Canaan would âburn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their godsâ (Deuteronomy 12:30). The Canaanite nations were anything but âinnocent.â In truth, â[t]hese Canaanite cults were utterly immoral, decadent, and corrupt, dangerously contaminating and thoroughly justifying the divine command to destroy their devoteesâ (Unger, 1988). They were so nefarious that God said they defiled the land and the land could stomach them no longerââthe land vomited out its inhabitantsâ (Leviticus 18:25).