Just wished to give you my view about the question of barbary and savage in the OT.
I have previously stated that many passages have been added by human pen and I stand by it, but that can`t be the whole story behind.
There are some passages that couldn`t have had a profitable value to the one wishing to corrupt the OT.
I think that every prophet had been given a message which the receiving society in that specific time period could live by.
Therefore, looking back at previous scriptures and comparing our own with them, and to state that the previous where barbaric is wrong, it was all relative.
That is , the message given to earlier civilisations where regarded as the most graceful truth because the customs they compared it with seemed so brutile and barbaric compared to it.
But as time went, and societies developed, Allah`s (Gods) message changed in the same pace.
So if The NT had been revealed to the Jews 4000 yers ago, I doubt the acceptance the Jewish civilisation would have given to it.
To me it all makes sense, but Im curious about others opinion as well.
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