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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
He was dealing with a tribal people just recently were removed from slavery.
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But He's not anymore.
If the god you worship can send asteroids and plagues our way, read our thoughts and guide
everything in the universe, why can't he just change the text in the bible? Why can't the actual bible on my bookshelf just have the words change to reflect modern times and make it obvious how He should be worshipped and how we should behave? A trick like that is nothing compared to simultaneously reading the minds of 6 billion people, and controlling all aspects of our lives.
People that believe strongly in the book kill people who strongly believe in a slightly different interpretation of that same book. I won't bother getting into the ways that it is imperfect, but it obviously is imperfect. It should be perfect. No tricks or riddles, none of this "it was written in a different time". It should be timeless and shouldn't need defending. A book written by an omniscient being for people to follow
forever shouldn't go stale when some guy invents a microscope a thousand years later, or when sensible people realize that slavery and rape are wrong.