Critical Thinking and the Bible #3 Mosaic Justice

The third in the series of Critical Thinking and the Bible series, in which I conduct a critical examination of the Bible. This episode deals with the Mosaic Law of the Old Testament.

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[chessfidemaster]

did not have enough space to finsih my comment ,, poeple often have no more reason than chance and the peer pressure associated with their environment ..i.e brainwashing.... the concept that your faith excludes my reason goes against every fiber of critical thought

[nathanaelstacy1]

@chessfidemaster One of the things that led me to reject belief in the Bible was the thought that if God actually gave humans a religion, it should stand above the rest in the area of logic. One should be able to compare all religions in an unbiased way, and say, "Obviously, this is the correct one!" But in order to believe in the Bible when reading it, one must already accept the preconceived notion of divine authorship, then ignore or rationalize everything that suggests otherwise.

[nothingmemorable]

And how many experts on Jewish law (i.e. Rabbis) agree with your exegesis on these two matters? One demand of critical thinking is that you consult with the experts on such matters-but you obviously haven't. FYI, the rapist would be subject to the death penalty. As for the Sabbath law, Moses never defined "work", but the context makes it clear it was about commerce &food gathering. In any event, the violator could always obtain immediate absolution through the penitential system of Leviticus.

[nathanaelstacy1]

@nothingmemorable Dont worry, youre not the only person to completely incorrectly argue this. The man would receive capital punishment ONLY if the victim is married or engaged. If shes not (as the young teenager in the example) then she is forced to marry her rapist. Deut 22:28,29. On the second point, anyone doing ANY work was to be stoned to death, Exodus 31:14, including a man who was found to be gathering sticks, Numbers 15:32-35. This does not apply only to commerce or food gathering.

[nothingmemorable]

As for the Sabbath - I'd hope'd my examples would have been understood as illustrative and not exhaustive: "gathering firewood" is like gathering food: a routine activity of basic sustenance - a regular chore that was part of making a living. Pulling your mule out of a ditch it fell into on the Sabbath didn't constitute "work" - neither did cleaning up your infant's vomit or spilled milk, nor changing its diapers.

[nathanaelstacy1]

I think a video response would have been in order. Make one, and I'll respond.

[nathanaelstacy1]

Figuring that if you ever posted a video response, it would probably be slow in coming, I went ahead and made a video response to your text comments. However, next time you have six full posts of comments to make on anybody's video, I suggest you make a response video, instead of posting them this way. Thanks.

[ailm96094]

tits to you good Sir

[EnglishTMTB]

Started watching the series a few minutes ago - enjoying it so far, though the volume of the intro is much louder than your voice (and the music may be irritating for some viewers, as it is for myself) so it ends up either being skipped or having the volume turned down, only to have to put it back up because you can barely be heard :P

[chessfidemaster]

.. i recently designed a dice , each side of the dice has one of the many religions of the world ,, any one seeking religion is welcome to roll it and claim thier new found religion , many people born into brainwashed environments ( i would like to see a vid on how the contradictions of various religions and what reasonable evidence is there to choose one from the other when they all clearly contradict themselves

[nothingmemorable]

What we normally think of as rape (sociopath lurking in shadows waiting to jump, savage, and degrade a young female) was punished under the laws for assault, battery, kidnapping, and attempted 1st degree murder. The last 2 were capital crimes: if adjudged to be a case of assault & battery, the aggravated circumstances and atrocities typical of serial rapists allowed the victim and her family to appeal to the priests, who - by all accounts - sentenced the rapist to death.