The Bible verse discussion thread

[DélioPT]

happydolphin said:

DélioPT said:
In my opinion what is present in the Old Testament and specially in this book, is the value of purity and the meaning of Justice. But to read the Old Testament you need to remember how people was at that time: people often say that God is vengeful or that He is mean, but it was the people who was (easily) corrupted even when having God in their presence. Remember God`s words to Moses of how hard were the hearts of those at that time and not to forget the response that Jesus gave regarding divorce (reading both quotes gives a better idea).

Yes, definitely sheds clues on the process of the writing of the laws. Aka some laws we know were written in divine inspiration, but the inspiration took into account the hardness of heart, and as such is not the actual untampered will of God, but a compromise of sorts.

That's why the law of Christ is the full package, the real deal.

Exactly.
People need to understand that there is a time and place for everything, even in the Bible you can see that.
Reading the Bible doesn`t let you in God`s mind. That heardness of heart is just one of the hints that God gives us so we can understand why things were the way they were. In a way, there`s what we know and can "read" from the Bible, but there also is what we can`t know because we aren`t God. We can`t even know how those people really were... Only God knows.