Ante-diluvian? How about slavery being regulated in the Torah, as is killing your own children for disobedience?
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Who knows, Kosta, He might still zap you
And maybe Zeus will zap you. :)
He is the one who commands humans to respect the rights of other humans as He spells out those rights.
By ordering genocides of human infants? There are no human rights as we understand them in the Bible.
You and James, however, have no logical basis for believing in the life for even yourself, much less anyone else
No, xzins, you have no logical basis for being certain in the uncertain.
I am correct. You believe in something that has no apparent, logical basis. And these things you disbelieve in for no certain reason: You deride slavery, but you have no basis to condemn it or praise it. You are indignant at genocide, but you have nothing that makes sense in arguing for it or against it.
You are a mass of contradition, because you appear to be acting on the moment, the feel of it, the social approval of it...something.
I, on the other hand, can point to a historic document revealing my beliefs, and those beliefs have shaped our society and its highest ideals. (Which you try to cling to.)
Slavery regulated in the Torah because it, like your disbelief, was tolerated until God chose to call the end game. (Divorce also was tolerated in the OT, as Jesus explained regarding Moses’ “bill of divorcement.”)