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Haha, I too ran out of space in my last post. I had to nuke almost have of it. Exodus 21:3-6This is servitude, Not slavery. You can technically call it slavery, But that puts me at a disadvantage because of the negative connotations is evokes in readers. It instructs readers on how they can beat the slaves as long as they don't die within a few days. Boring their ears with an aul marking them, Passing them on to their children. There is no way this is possibly anything BUT slavery. Are you telling me Christians did not own slaves? People don't like the word slave, But that's too bad, Because it IS slavery, Not endentured servitude. Both forms existed simultaneously, But endentured servents are not beaten and passed on like property. That's just the rule of maximum years, He can be freed before that. Where does it say that, Specifically? Because the wife was in the master's service when the slave married her, And the children were birthed by her. Women don't get a 6 year service, Which is msyogeny, The point I was trying to make. They and their offspring belong to the master, That is NOT endentured servitude. Endentured servitude is for a single individual to pay back a debt. This IS slavery. It says if the woman is SOLD by someone else. Parents would sell their children if they were in extreme poverty, like a parent today forcing a child to work. Not sure where you got the sex thing from, It only says espouse to him, And it says at the end of the scripture that HE dealt deceitfully with HER by doing that. It never says she can be sold, It says she can be REDEEMED, AKA freed, AKA sent back to her parents. Redeemed does not mean freed. Redeemed means her value can be redeemed to her master by selling her to someone else for coin. Forcing a child to work today is not in any way the same thing as a father selling his daughters into slavery or betrothing them for money. You don't know where I got the sex thing from, It's from the word betrothed. In other words, If her master takes her as his wife (he can have multiple), And she does not please him, He can sell her to get his money back. She is only property. Here is a source for redeemed - right side of the page, Pulpit commentary, Verse 8:https://biblehub. Com/commentaries/exodus/21-8. HtmThe treated like daughters, Yes, Not sure where you got the disciplined and sold in anyway seen fit from. As we have just seen above and in other places in the Bible, Daughters are sold. Disciplining children was common practice back then, They could even stone them to death. You misread the scripture. It says she'll be released without money, AKA she doesn't have to PAY to go free. God knew that servitude was a necessary economic structure for those that went into debt or extreme poverty, So he simply provided guidelines for it. I've looked this up now from several different translations and I do not see anything supporting what you said. It is saying she will be freed as a slave, But released without payment for her services. It never says severely beaten, Being beaten in the scriptures is a way to punish wrongdoers. By the one to two days things, That is simply an assumption that they are fine and will continue to live. And if a man smite his servant, Or his maid, With a rod, And he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, If he continue a day or two, He shall not be punished: for he is his money. The verse speaks for itself. What do you think smiting with a rod is, Exactly? This say's he can beat the sh*t out of him or her as long as they don't die within a couple days, Because they are his property, His money. This is NOT rape. We know this because that scripture says if a man lie with a woman, However TWO scriptures BEFORE, It says if a man lies with a woman and FORCES HER, Then he must die. This scripture never mentioned force, Which simply means that it was sex before marriage. Here is an English translation from a Bible site and it's exactly how I read it in KJV, Too. You're wrong. If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, For he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. https://www. Biblegateway. Com/passage/? Search=Deuteronomy+22%3A28-29&version=NIV**CAPITAL CRIME** Can you provide any source to support this is ONLY for capital crimes? It doesn't say that. **FREE WILL**How can God know what will happen before hand if it's not pre-destined to happen? You can't have free will and know the future. Explain that please, Because it makes no sense. **ANGEL FLOOD**I, And everyone else who reads the Bible interprets it as mankind being wiped out by a giant flood. This story was borrowed from Gilgamesh, So I'm sure it was not centered around angels, Because we can see the original story. Are you saying God did not make Adam and Eve, Who had children, Who had children, Etc? Those are all humans and they were all killed in the flood. I said this because you never elaborated on it. I never said that we must forgo the rules. It simply means that God will not judge you for those sins that you commit, But that is still not an excuse to sin. What purpose would one have to "not sin", If sin doesn't matter and is forgiven no matter what? So therefore, Every other form of media obstructs the world's views and influences them, Which means that they are all problems as well that need to be dealt with. Christianity influences views, Yes, But it does not OBSTRUCT, Just like any other influencing media. I totally agree that other things influence people, But this debate is only about Christianity. Christianity does influence beliefs and those beliefs can lead to obstructions, As I have aforemented (politics, Laws, Science, Etc). Christianity is different than most other beliefs in that it touches many areas and it has virtually anything one seeks to find. If someone does not like homosexuals, They can justify it in the Bible (and conversely), For example. A political belief, For example, Has it's scope limited to politics. This makes religion very dangerous as it is generally interpreted to the readers presuppositions. It is not anti-scientific! You can't simply claim that those facts are true, Because I then have to elaborate on them, But I cannot due to a lack of characters. :/By anti-scientific, You imply that is says to disregard ALL science, Which it does not. It simply disparages a couple of things that GOD did because HE made the scientific laws, So he can therefore break them. Let's have a debate on whether Creationism is scientific - deal? I too, Do not have enough room to elaborate lol. But I will say this, It defies science. You can argue that science is wrong, That's fine, But Creationism still defies it. NASA can't ask that in an interview, So what they want in that regard is completely irrelevant. And again, You refer to it as magic; it is not, And it's unfair to say it is when I can't argue against that (due to a lack of characters). Please refrain from doing so. Also, These are challenges for CHRISTIANS, Not society, So it doesn't obstruct society at all. Why is it unfair for NASA to ask what a person knows? Someone who doesn't believe in radio active decay, Speed of light, Etc should not be on a team of phycisits designing rockets and satellites that other peoples lives depend on. I'm almost entirely out of space, Unfortunately, So I'll summarize quickly. Who would you rather have operating on you - a doctor who studies the science used to run our world, Or a doctor who believes in magic and thinks the majority consensus of science is wrong? God speaking things into existence, Resurrections, Talking snakes, Miracles - those are by definition magic.