The Old Testament is not Outdated.

"He didn't change his mind, he applied different judgement to a different circumstance." 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. "It doesn't directly say this, but everyone knows tat his intent was to punish the Jews, not to obliterate them." Argumentum Ad Populum. Maybe he did have the intent to obliterate them from the start! Are they still God's people now? "It wasn't slavery, it was indentured servitude, you only wee a servant to pay back a debt, or until the year of jubilee, and starving them was not an issue, worst case scenario you could glean. There was always free food in Israel!" 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 But still, it is outdated because no one does it anymore, and I doubt that it's legal. Furthermore, it doesn't matter how nice it is, no one should be able to own another human being for any amount of time. "hey, there wasn't much alternatives back then, what else would you use, a gun? Besides, just the threat of stoning would make people not want to be evil, so it worked out in the end." Well, I got a few ideas: *Hanging (to break the neck) *Stabbing *Cutting throat *Poison 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 Besides, again, your not really addressing how outdated they are.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. "They knew not to kill babies, everyone does! 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. "If you ar asking me why he ordered for the babies to be kiled, i's called STD's, just look at the symptoms you will see why it was better to die." 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? "Because god knew that he would come around eventually, the Bail worshipers, they would never repent." So you're saying that NONE of the nations surrounding the Jews could have repented, and God knew that? No one? 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. "Hey, mating two different kinds of animals is gross..." So mules are out of the question? "...why would you not plant two different types of seeds in your field..." 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. "...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? Also, no, GMO's don't cause cancer and any educated person would know this. "...and ob course the Jews would not understand it at the time, just like we do not understand two different kinds of fabric today." And I can't understand you. What are you on about!? "I do not see any "tho shalt not eat fish" in there, sure this is- gruesome, but it's not li the cow is alive, we do worse things t our cows." 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). But I assume you eat pork, which is against Leviticus 11:7 Are you circumcised? Genesis 17:14 Do you work on Sunday's? Exodus 31:14 and 20:10 Do you shave? Leviticus 19:27 These are just a few of many absurd rule in Old Testament.