Oh, boy, how noble, given that average longevity in those days wasn't much past that number!
Irrelevant. The will determines inheritance rights
Irrelevant? So, adopted children are just like funriture? I don;t think so. But slaves were exactly that, like cattle.
You are saying that what the Bible teaches is morally repugnant, that part of God's Holy word is morally repugnant. What, then, is the source for your morality?
Not Leviticus! Imagine how you'd feel if you were separated from your wilfe and young children and witnessed her being sold to someone, knowoing you will never see her again, and your children to someone else who can kill them if he so desires, and then tell me if that is repungnant. Yet, the OT won't tell you it is.
You will have to say that your source for morality disagrees with what the Bible says.
Yes it does! I find the slavery of Leviticus repugnant.
Oh, boy, how noble, given that average longevity in those days wasn't much past that number!
I will pass your complaint along to the manager who instituted the policy. :)
FK: Irrelevant. The will determines inheritance rights.
Irrelevant? So, adopted children are just like furniture? I don't think so.
I don't think so either, since one cannot will his estate to a chair. It must transfer one way or another into (at least) the custody of a person or people.
But slaves were exactly that, like cattle.
With evil owners such as the Egyptians, sure. But that's not what God taught. God specifically said how slaves were to be treated and it was not like cattle.
FK: You will have to say that your source for morality disagrees with what the Bible says.
Yes it does! I find the slavery of Leviticus repugnant.
OK, and may I assume it is fine for me to think that the Orthodox God (the one who loves satan) is incompatible with the God in Leviticus? :)