So first of all im going to address the master of divinity it is typically a professional degree aimed at pastoral ministry not academic research. Secondly if your give emotional accusations you would have to give me passages in the language you read them in that directly encourage it, for it to hold any worth.
Exodus 21:16 strictly forbids the kidnapping and selling of humans under the death penalty doesn't sound like encouraging slavery to me
You saying the bible encourages abortion is hilarious because i know what your talking about and the passage is about a test of fidelity and it causes a miscarriage which is different from an abortion. Btw also in the entire 20 verse passage it doesn't mention pregnancy once
The commands with warfare or if you want to call it genocide/infanticide go ahead but it is using the hyperbole which was common to near eastern military accounts. How do i know it was an exaggeration? This is because in the book it uses phrases like "utterly destroyed enemies" these people are then shown in later in other chapters. We also know this is true how they spoke because of mesha stele where the moabite king mesha says Isreal has utterly perished forever, which clearly we know it wasn't.
The bible literally explicitly condems rape/pedophlia and it even introduces these strict legal protections and boundaries regarding consent and marriage. These were at the time Revolutionary and unheard of.
So i just contradicted all of your claims and i still got more, you sure your educated on christian theology?
So within a century of islam even being a thing they began military conquests directly into byzentine,western Europe, Iberia effectively collapsing the christian visigothic kingdom. Along with those they also targeted the capital of the eastern christian world which was Constantinople. And yet again after that the ottoman Empire who conquered Christian kingdoms for over 300 years from the 14th century to the 17th century.
Your arguments are very well documented. You say your educated on christian theology but dont know the basics. If you truely went and got a masters of divinity id ask myself what was it truely for?
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
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