The Old Testament is not Outdated.

You're just rewording it. The bible plainly states that he changed his mind. This is a direct contradiction. DIRECT. And just to show how your rewording doesn't work, I'll use an analogy of two people talking about where to go to eat: Person 1: What do you want to eat? And you can't change your mind! Person 2: McDonalds Person 1: OK *Drives to McDonalds* Person 2: Actually, I changed my mind Person 1: What? I told you not to! Person2: Well, I didn't REALLY change my mind. I simply applied a different judgment of what to eat because the circumstances are different. Person 1: -_- As you can see, what your stating is clearly a ridiculous attempt to dodge the direct contradiction, which I knew from the start you would do." Actually amigo, it would be like this: Person 1: What do you want to eat? And you can't change your mind! Person 2: McDonalds Person 1: OK *Drives to McDonalds* (Giant meteor hurdles toward earth and turns McDonald into a crater) Person 2: Maybe we should go to Jack in the crack? Person 1: What? I told you not to! Person2: Dude, Micky D's is a crater! Person 1: Well, I guess we should eat dirt from the ground where McDonald used to be. Person 2: you have fun with that (Drives off) Maybe he did have the intent to obliterate them from the start! Are they still God's people now? Yes, they are. "Ok, I'll give credit where credit's due, and say your right. But still, it is outdated because no one does it anymore, and I doubt that it's legal." Well, it was, back in the day, it was called "debtors prison", either way, you owe money and you can't pay, you should have to work to pay it off. "Furthermore, it doesn't matter how nice it is, no one should be able to own another human being for any amount of time." They didn't "own" them, they just had to work to pay off a debt "Well, I got a few ideas: *Hanging (to break the neck)" One that wasn't around until the Middle Ages, plus it isn't too much better. "*Stabbing" where? *Cutting throat sounds horrible "*Poison" what poison, Jimpson weed? Oh no, that's in America, hemlock, no, that's in Europe, in fact I don't know of any plants that grow natively to Canaan, let alone poisonous ones there sure is a lot of stones though. etc "Besides, your last statement is quite ironic considering...you know...how the Jews actually behaves from King David onwards." "Besides, again, your not really addressing how outdated they are. We don't stone anybody anymore." Maybe we should. "No they didn't. Their pompous religious leaders led them to do it because it would bring a good harvest and such. To them, killing a few babies for the sake of the whole city was tolerable." Hey, everyone knows not to kill babies to Bail! "What, and the Jews didn't? So the cure to AIDS is "kill them all"? Really? God couldn't cure them like Jesus did and let them join his team or something?" Yes it is! God doesn't enforce his will on others, the people Jesus healed WANTED to be healed, those guys, they WANTED to get STD's, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. "So you're saying that NONE of the nations surrounding the Jews could have repented, and God knew that? No one?" Well, they could've, but they didn't, god sent them warnings, like everyone else, but they didn't listen. "And besides, of course Manasseh would repent because he knew that was an option. He knew of the original Yehweh, but the other nations didn't. They were wiped clean off the slate without warning or anything." They got warning. "So mules are out of the question?" Yeah, and just lok, mules cannot breed with other mules! They're steril! Poor unick's! "I don't know, maybe I want just a crop of tomato's. But I maybe want a crop of both tomatoes and potatoes. According to the bible, I can't do that because tyranny." GMO's amigo! "...this was a rule against GM O's, which cause cancer by the way, (http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com.........)" Dafuq? Do you know what a GMO is? Genetically modified organism. How could the Jews be able to do this back then? Why was that a threat?" It was a prophecy of GMO's and for Jews now todays to not eat them! "Also, no, GMO's don't cause cancer and any educated person would know this." Oh, I'm sorry cancerous tummors! "And I can't understand you. What are you on about!?" Te law against GMO's was not relevant then, but is today, the "no mixed cloth thing" will be releveant later. "Sorry, I typed in wrong scripture!" "Here it is: Leviticus 11:10 I also must have misread the scripture, as it says that you can't eat fish without scales (like shark or such)." Obcourse, it is unhealthy. "But I assume you eat pork, which is against Leviticus 11:7" There is a very good reason for that amigo: TRIGINOSIS, PIN WORMS, COLESTOROL, FAT, ugh, doesn't sound so good for you Amigo. "Are you circumcised? Genesis 17:14" Hey, that is my buisness, but yes. "Do you work on Sunday's? Exodus 31:14 and 20:10" Why would anyone work on sundays? What kind of nut case would pass off a day off? Besides, it was actualy saturday, oh yeah, and it says to "remember the sabbath and keep it holly" "Do you shave? Leviticus 19:27" it only says not to shave the little hairs near your ear, you know? "These are just a few of many absurd rule in Old Testament." no.