• BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Meanwhile, a few chapters later in the same book:

    44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

    TBH I can’t blame Christians for being confused about what love looks like if this is what they believe God says.

    EDIT: Upon further reflection, I regret the way thus comment targets believers more than it does the problem in question. See: https://lemmy.world/comment/12608950

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

      Galations 3:28

      damn it just keeps coming up! Its like this whole bible thing was really trying to get this whole ‘dont be a dickhead’ point home, shame its not working so well

      • Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I disagree with the statement mentioned in the original comment, but this isn’t a proper argument against it. In that verse, they’re discussing who Jesus came for. Instead, you can look at Matthew 5, in the sermon on the mount, which says that Christ did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. As such, the laws cannot be disregarded.

        • x0x7@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          So then animal sacrifice is meant to be continued by Christians? The “did not come to abolish but fulfill” thing is really an explanation for abolishment. He didn’t destroy the law but completed it, so it’s done. And by law we basically mean Leviticus. So yes, Leviticus pretty much is irrelevant. By your argument and the argument embedded in OPs post Christians should still be stoning women and not eating pork.

          How can you know which chapter of Matthew starts the sermon on the mount and not know pretty much the most core concept in Christian theology? Like that is almost the whole central point of Jesus is that he abolished the law by fulfilling it. That and salvation. That’s like the two things.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Simply put the old testament is the pick and choose portion of the bible. Only slightly more complex is their ability to ignore similar sentiment in the new testament.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, the sequel retconned a bunch, but is actually more “love your neighbor” and way less violent than the original.

      But the it has that weird Paul tangent that’s just a collection of letters from a former Christian-hunter that changed sides where he gets really judgy about other Christians and he starts telling them how to act.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We’ve had one, yes. What about the second testament?

      I don’t think he knows about the second testament, Pip.

  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    When I was young growing up Southern Baptist there was one time where the pastor preached about this verse, and the whiplash I felt when I heard family members bad-mouthing immigrants the moment they stepped outside is partly what led me to read the Bible myself, which led to me losing my faith.

    • capital@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Hello fellow former southern Baptist.

      I hate to admit it took me way too long to realize the blatant hypocrisy.

      Glad you made it out.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      did you ditch the family too? sounds like the Bible was actually ahead on this one so itsweird you dump the faith instead (not overall, just the way you told the story had a whiplash of its own)

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, repeatedly. It’s one of the Bible’s themes: love your neighbor and embrace outsiders.

      As is: giving all your earthly excesses to the poor, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, clothing the naked, and caring for the sick. Pretty much anything that a Republican says destroys society is something the Bible says you have to do to get into heaven.