Belief in the word of the bible is incompatible with modern morality

King James version: "You shall not covet your neighbors house; you shall not covet your neighbors wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbors." In my case I talked about some of the ten commandments and shortened them to save characters. Here is the full commandment for "do not covet". ^^^^ This verse is talking about wanting something that doesn't belong to you, I.E. your neighbors wife. Capitalism is trying to get something that you don't have rather than taking something that doesn't rightfully belong to you. "Notice here in the ten most important commandments there are no commandments against child abuse, genocide, rape or slavery. The four commandments you choose to omit are "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.", "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.", "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;" and "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.". Do you not think that those commandments would do well to be replaced by commandments against child abuse, genocide, rape and slavery?" First, how many commandments do you want?! Does the Bible have to lay out everything that you must and must not do? If so, the book would be 1000s of pages longer. "I would guess the reason that there is no commandment against child abuse, genocide, rape or slavery is because they are all explicitly sanctioned by Yahweh [1] [2] [3] [4]" Explicitly sanctioned means that someone undoubtedly said to allow something. Here is a response to each of the verses in which the Bible "explicitly sanctioned" things: Hosea 9: God did not condone or sanction child abuse. God is just. He told these people to do something and they didn"t. They payed the price. Again, God did not want to kill, but he carried out his promise justly, unlike the U.S. government today" Joshua 6: You"re saying that because a tribe attacked a city its genocide? I"m sorry, but that"s ridiculous. In that time, tribes attacked each other constantly. It"s called war. Israel was simply trying to retake their own land as all tribes did a that time. Judges 19: The bible shows an instance of rape - does that mean that the bible explicitly sanctions it? No. Also, this is the verse right before the story of rape: "As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men,[a] surrounded the house and beat on the door." - Judges 19:22. Perverted men. These weren"t Christians. God didn"t sanction this. Perverted men and sin carried out this act. Please check your sources and don"t take the Bible out of context. Leviticus 25: You said that the Bible allows slavery. Here is Leviticus 25:39-43. These are the verses right before yours. The Law Concerning Slavery 39""And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. 40"As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. 41"And then he shall depart from you"he and his children with him"and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. 42"For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43"You shall not rule over him with rigor, but you shall fear your God. This doesn"t look like God is sanctioning slavery to me" Again, please stop taking the Bible out of context! You did agree with what I said about most of the death penalty. The laws and rules have changed. Again, those laws were mainly for the Israelites, not for you and me. That"s why it"s called Mosaic law and not modern law. I do consider the laws to kill unbelievers and homosexuals immoral. That"s because they are ancient laws and not created for the present time. You need to understand this. The U.S. laws back in the 1800s weren"t moral either. So why can you let those laws go but not the Bible"s old laws? Now back to slavery. I showed you clear verses that showed how fair and loving god was to slaves. Still, old law is a valid argument. At that time, slavery was happening all over the world and continues to appear in several cases today. We both know that it"s bad thing, but all societies have done it, including ours. Why should you be so hard on the Israelites and not everyone else? The Bible is an old text with old laws. You need to understand that morality has changed and the Bible hasn"t. There will be outdated things and people need to accept that. I"m a Christian and I don"t practice slavery, nor does any Christian I know. We know that the verses relating to slavery are no longer relevant. to us in this day and age. Plus, God never exclusively commands us to own slaves - he just gave us verses on how to treat them if we had them. Please read this - It"s basically my next argument expanded. http://cbshouston.edu... Finally, the mosaic law of the old testament was meant to be kept by the people until Christ came and rose again. Once Christ came, salvation was the only way to get to heaven. The mosaic law was terminated as soon as the Vail was torn. Again, please read above to understand fully. If you have questions, feel free to comment. Thanks and I look forward to your response! (I have two broken fingers in my right hand so there will be some typos" please understand:)