The Old Testament is not Outdated.

"God continually changes his mind on matters, and I'm pretty sure this is one of them. Here are a few examples of him changing his mind: Exodus 32:14 "So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people." God changed his mind because if he destroyed them, there would be no more Jews left! No one to eat Jew bread or Jewish cracker, or to worship Germanic gods, well god didn't like the last one, but how would the messiah come? Besides, this was all according to Moses, by no doubt god wanted to bring judgement, but this was not evil, it was that god couldn't destroy the Jews, he promised not to. Amos 7:3 "The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the LORD." God changed his mind, not for any other reason than a different circumstance, that is, if he had finished, the Jews would go extinct! So he didn't really change his mind per say, he changed his direction, as was planned from the beginning. Numbers 23:19: "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" Same as above Isaiah 40:8: "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever." Same as above New Testament Verses: James 1:17: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with who is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." Really? I guess that disproves the trinity then...because, you know, he doesn't vary... The bible does not once mention the trinity, this is a crack pot doctrine devised by catholic priests who were high on dope. Anyway, same as above. Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Same as above 1st Corinthians 1:13: "Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?" "Paul was talking in regards to the divisions within the church, not Christ himself. Regardless, same as above." Paul was using the simply self evident fact that god is not divided against himself to proove that the church shoud not be divided, the point stands. "Furthermore, there are several versus in the Old Testament that support slavery[1], stoning[2], mass murder[3], genocide[4] etc etc etc., yet Jesus taught love and kindness..." Well first off, the bible never justified slavery, infact god smite Egypt for it, what the bible allows is indentured servitude, what this was was if you owed someone money, and you could not pay it back, you would work to pay, and you would have to work until either you payed off your debt, or until it was the year of Jew belly, then your debt was erased and you were free. Also, the master could not beat his servants or he would have to let he/she free! Exodus 21:26: "And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake." Also, stoning was just the death penalty, there is no issue there, as long as, you know, he's guilty. And as to mass genocide, they had to! They were killing babies my friend, when you're at that point, you kind of have to be killed off. Stupid America! you know what happens to people that kill babies! But hey! All praise the loving and kind non-changing mind God! Heil Hitler! I mean God! [1] Leviticus 15:44 [2] Deuteronomy 21:18 [3] Numbers 21: 2/ Deuteronmy 20:17 and 2:34 [4] Exodus 11 - 12