How can we take the Bible as an unchanging guide to morality when it condones slavery?
You can murder men and women and keep the virgin girls as your slaves. You can beat them to within an inch of their life and suffer no consequence. You can keep them forever and pass them on to your children as your property.
The bible says this is ok...and we all know it's not. So how can you trust it as a moral guide?
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That verse isn't just slavery. It's child sex slave trade. Basically it is God approved pedophilia. But like the recent pastor arrest in Missouri, God will forgive anything. Thus they think they are above all human morality. This is known as antinomianism.
When in fact Jesus tells one to obey both man's law as well as God's law in the render unto Caesar verse. Also Romans 2:14-15 hints that God's laws are a reflection of natural law that can not be broken. Which natural law seems much more god like than don't wear mixed fabric bs.
Religion is built by evil people to attract evil people and justify evil by fear mongering people into believing religious people have the backing of a God. And that no human law will touch them.
This makes God just a Lovecraftian Eldritch horror.
