I'm not writing you off as a 'nutcase,' but I would suggest that you be more circumspect about declaring what 'God's law' declares and prescribing stoning for offenses such as rape and adultery in our present law.
btw, dry parts, indeed. I'm not that fond of reading about festering sores and infectious diseases, but it does give perspective on what grace is really all about. I'm using "The One Year Bible"........where you read an OT passage, a NT passage, a Psalm and some Proverbs every day. I find it very useful in not getting 'bogged down' and giving up sometime in March :).
I do hope you'll agree that what I posted was accurate as far as what the Bible tells us was God's Law given to the Israelites. Just to clarify, as far as this thread today, I was asked if I believe in stoning for adulterers; how can I say I don't when God declared it? Now whether it's for today or not, I did not say and do not claim to know. I do think we can learn principles from the OT, if nothing else, and one of those is that God holds adultery and rape on equal grounds with murder.
"I'm using "The One Year Bible"........where you read an OT passage, a NT passage, a Psalm and some Proverbs every day. I find it very useful in not getting 'bogged down' and giving up sometime in March :)."
I used The One Year Bible one year, also - it was the first time I actually made it the whole way through the Bible! :) I had tried before but would get behind and gave up. I like how it's set up with each day's readings together.
The last number of years I've been using a chronological schedule, which takes you through both the OT and the NT simultaneously, but the OT especially is read in the order of how things happened, not just straight through from Genesis to Malachi. That also keeps it more interesting. If you're interested in it for another year you can find it here.
God's grace is indeed all through the Bible, along with His mercy and love and faithfulness. We serve an awesome God!