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Masefield I love God. The world desperately needs the love of God spreading throughout the world. I hope that you can stop hating.Best wishes.kenneth I HATE GOD? IS goD GAY?
Can any other members help I can't understand the answers that I am getting.
At that time the world practiced slavery. The Bible was written to them not us. What is evident from its' pages is, God involved Himself with people and their economy of that time. What the pages of the Bible won't tell is how the people of ancient Israel resolved Leviticus 25:44-45 with Leviticus 19:33-34 and Exodus 12:48. Theoretically a foreign slave could become as a natural born Israelite and then be able to buy himself out of his perpetual slavery. God became involved with slavery because mankind was involved with it, that is a fact.I am a new member and I am not sure whether I am posting correctly.Leviticus Ch.25.Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you.
I do not believe that God has ever been involved in slavery.
I am a new member and I am not sure whether I am posting correctly.Leviticus Ch.25.Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you.
I do not believe that God has ever been involved in slavery.
We have all been given a measure of faith, but until exercised it just won't work...Ask God to help your unbelief...as only HE can give increase...Can any other members help I can't understand the answers that I am getting.
Thank you for your help. I have been on two Alpha coursesl long ago but they did not address this sort of problem.Kenneth, I'd probably suggest a good bible study course, I could say an Alpha course but I've never been on one to endorse it or not. Our local Church (We're also in the UK) ran an excellent course putting into perspective the context of the bible, both historically and culturally. It addresses the questions you have such as slavery. It certainly cleared up many questions people had.
What was really drawn from it was that understanding the cultural and historic changes that have taken place since biblical times are key to unlocking such answers. Even the cultural changes within the last 100 years make it difficult to grasp concepts from earlier in that time period.
Bibilcal context was also highlighted as being key to understanding more about these burning issues.
I can give you the name / contact of the guy who ran this particular course if you like.
Some scholars do not think the account of 600,000 men (not including women and children) spending 40 years in the Sinai ever happened. I do not think God promised Semitic slaves a land of milk and honey to lead them to die miserable deaths in the desert.The Passover.Exodus Ch.12 As I see this God is being accused of murdering innocent Egyptian children.
I do not believe that God did this.Can we discuss?
I have more problems with killings in the Bible.Thank you for your help. I have been on two Alpha coursesl long ago but they did not address this sort of problem.
I have more problems with killings in the Bible.
Leviticus Ch.24.Stone blasphemer.
Leviticus.Ch.20 A woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it.Kill both the woman and the animal.
Numbers Ch.15 The man collecting sticks on the sabbath.All the congregation shall Stone him.
Numbers Ch 25 Cities of refuge . The next of kin will kill the murderer.
2Samuel Ch.6.Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God for the oxen stumbled .God struck him and killed him.
Jeremiah Ch.13.I will fill all the inhabitants of the land and I will dash them one against the other. I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy,but will destroy them.
I do not believe that God would do any of these things.
Remember that the laws of the OT were written for a different people at a different time. God was using His laws a way to keep His chosen people richeous and distinguish them from other cultures who worshipped false gods and participated in pagan rituals. And, it worked. None of those cultures exist now. However, Judaism, and as a result Christianity, survived.
Since the coming of Jesus, times have changed.
The Passover.Exodus Ch.12 As I see this God is being accused of murdering innocent Egyptian children.
I do not believe that God did this.Can we discuss?
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