Ephesians 6:5

[Benton]

(06-22-2020, 07:04 PM)Lucidus Wrote: Why didn't God just say that in the Old Testament, instead of all the unadulterated instruction for killing, raping, pillaging, taking prisoners, enslaving people, etc? How and why did Warlord God become Hippie God? Was is it a necessary re-write, to rehabilitate his image? Was he simply drunk with power and ambition in the OT and realized that peace, love and harmony was a superior brand of messaging? Did he simply mature and mellow out with age, filled with regret and embarrassment over his past transgressions?

I'm being a tad sarcastic of course, but I find the extremely bi-polar and incompetent nature of this deity to be rather entertaining from a purely literary aspect. It's rather frightening in another sense, in that people actually believe these things and incorporate such ideology into their lives and thinking processes. 

If you wanted to turn Conan into mother Theresa would you start at the end or work your way there?

Context of the society is important. If the norm is to kill someone over an ox, you've got a lot of ground to cover.