Straightforward, hard-to-answer-questions about the Bible/Christianity

No. It was a bum rap. Being perfect Eve had no other choice than to perform according to her very reason for existence. She played her part just as the director ordered. It was a set up.. a subterfuge. She never saw it coming. Poor girl's been bearing the brunt of the director's faux wrath ever since.

Well, since you asked ... it's the spin-off merchandising. The t-shirts, ball caps, those little plastic mama snakes curled up in their cardboard nests surrounded by those cute little baby snakelings. The oil is just the come-on. The real killing is in the spin-off.As for the cliff? You might be right there. I was always partial to ribs.

AZPaul3 4-6 (New World Freedom Edition)Know ye the power that is ours, a greater power than any else upon the heavens and upon the earth. All gods, save not one, doth know of our power and fear of us. No god nor devil nor spirit of any place nor of any time may overcome us nor defeat us.
-AZPaul3 4:13-15No host of heaven nor spawn of hell are safe from us. All are subject to our voice and to our thought. Know ye the power of our voice and the power of our thought that none may continue but be vanished from the mind of humanity.
-AZPaul3 4:18-20And They said unto the believer, Feel how he doth tremble in your heart. Yea, he doth tremble in our presence and at the mention of our name and with the hearing of our name he doth tremble. See him scurry as doth the frightened rat unto the shadows of your mind. See him hide unto the darkness of your ignorance.
-AZPaul3 5:5-9From the depth of our mind we banish him. By the power of our voice and the power of our thought we consign him to oblivion for all eternity. He is of no affect nor does he have power over our minds nor over our lives nor over our world nor over any world nor over any space nor over any time. He will be as forgotten as the thousands of gods that came before him. By our power he is banished from the minds of men from which he came.
-AZPaul3 5:14-18Know ye the power that is ours, a greater power than any else upon the heavens and upon the earth. But with a word, but with a thought, we vanquish the once thought powerful that ruled us by fear and gave us ignorance and death, the once thought all mighty that cowed us into evil and all manner of abomination. We are the power. We are the all mighty.
We are Atheist.
-AZPaul3 6:8-12Edited by AZPaul3, : a better thought

Oh. Huntard is wrong and there is an admonition from god against slavery? Is the affecting passage in the OT or the NT? Either? Both?And Huntard is wrong about the biblical rules for slave owners on how to buy, sell, punish? Are Leviticus and Exodus no longer in the standard cannon?And 1 Timothy 6, Luke 12? Paul's admonitions to the bonded and their masters in Ephesians 6? All are now gone?Or are they ...Just exactly where and how did Huntard make this "the babbling from inaccurate knowledge" fallacy?Inquiring minds want to know.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Neither does it condemn it. Neither does it enjoin it. Which is tacit acceptance of the practice.And yet homosexuality is a strict and vocal abomination.Why the difference with the abomination of slavery?Slavery was part and parcel to old middle east culture. It was as ubiquitous in society as today's cell phones. No one gave it much thought. It was just the natural order of things back then.What this says is that the writers gave no thought to the institution as one would expect from an inspired divinity; at least one who had any objection to the practice.Yes, indeed, this shows the bible to be a real book written by real men without divine inspiration. The alternative being that the divine inspiration came from a blood mongering schitzoid psychopath who apparently couldn't care less about the sufferings of his creation. I prefer the former.