Disturbing Passages in Holy Books

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My International Relations studies also may be make me see that I frame my thinking around more Relativism and rational theories. I am more rational in theory. Those who are may be may struggle more to apply new laws to ancient societies to judge them by it. Being rational minded can be an autistic trait as well. The Sahderian council they were the judges for some of the Bible as to what was lawful or not. In the Old Testament it seemed to be God who was the judge and saying the judge is guilty for some may struggle to see this as rational. I like human rights as well and have studied that to.

I studied Islam also in my undergraduate and saw like concepts like the Jihad-Holy War had multiple meanings to different people.

I’m not so much expecting ancient societies to abide by new laws as expecting an allegedly loving, just, peace-loving, and all-powerful deity to demonstrate those qualities or, at least, not repeatedly prove himself to be a massive a**hole.

I am not alone in these thoughts framing the Bible's stance on warfare around Just war doctrines. They were not created then, but the Old Testament was in part inspiration for them etc rational theory as well. I think it can only help your argument. I googled these words today "what just war theory did the Old testament" and "Just war and old Testament laws"
Perhaps you can try the same and see what you think about it and the legitimate authority.

I think the job of an all over leader isn't an easy one and God has many faces. The brief summarys mention about general reverence for peoples faiths if you believe in it or not. I find that interesting as well.

I wrote about the Nation of Islam many years ago, and although they were meant to be a bunch of haters, I tried to see it through a spiritual lens and couldn't amount to same conclusion. It is nice to see you being so passionate about what you hold true.

The Old Testament fails abysmally to live up to the Just War Theory in various passages. As I’ve already stated, though, many of the accounts in the OT didn’t happen according to the archaeological record. As a special interest, I have done a fair amount of research on this topic. I stand by my view that if the biblical god were real and as depicted he’s a genocidal a**hole. Slaughtering babies or entire groups of people is never okay or proportionate. Perhaps reading the entire thread would paint a clearer picture of the atrocities god encouraged, engaged in, committed, etc. I should say that he isn’t consistent, though. As a human creation, he evolved over the centuries and varied with the goals, values, and traditions of the specific writers, editors, and scribes in their unique historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts.

From here on out, I’d appreciate it if we stuck to my original purpose for this thread:

“How the Bible Supports Slavery”

Here is a link to an earlier post that features some scriptures on the topic of slavery.

Jesus relates a problematic illustration involving slavery when speaking to his disciples that hasn’t been cited yet in this thread. Nowhere does he condemn the practice of owning another human being.