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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@Pikachu in a modern world of science, psychology, Artificial intelligence, climate change, and most imporantly, the likely interaction between humans and aliens... the mind of ancient humans can not handle the challenges. They had challenges; shorter lives, health issues, food shortages, battles over land, competition with predators, ice ages, sex practices, new religions, but they were from a different perspective, a different brain.
biblical apologists like to point out the importance of the context of the time and people for whom those books were written when it comes to excusing or justifying certain mistakes or issues but for some reason they don't extend that reasoning to include the points you have mentioned in your post.
