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Originally Posted by FireFly
I tried to explain it before, maybe I didn't make much sense...
Let's use another example.
It's easy enough for us to look at African people and give them rules and teach them how to grow stuff and clean water and all that kind of stuff, however it's much different when we try to put it into practise. When we do, we realize just how difficult those living conditions are.
It's similar for God. He gave the Jews rules for how to worship Him the best, and then He noticed they were having a very difficult time living up to those rules. I mean really, all the people in the world and he's got Job and Noah? He had to question why so many of His people fell away from Him. Also, He didn't want them to be seperate from Him, so He sent His Son to check it out. What His Son discovered was that life is hard! All those rules on top of just living day to day was ridiculously hard, and He wanted to make it easier to see the kingdom, so He changed the rules.
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I think you made sense and on one level I get it.. but God doesn't change, and the stuff that went on in the OT was acceptable to Him then, the killing, the degredation of women, etc.. Though I guess what your saying is those things weren't acceptable even then, but there was no other choice so He abided it until a different way was established? Sucks for those folks.