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[quote=Anonymous]First, thank you for at least making a sincere attempt to address the issues.  I'll answer a few.

[quote=Anonymous]I'll feed the troll!

OP's premises are faulty all around.

1. Women not teaching men is in the context of doctrine and leading the church. The justification is given that Eve was deceived and Adam followed along. This is not to be extended to every walk of life. This is not prima facie immoral, just OP wants it different.
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Disagree.  This is immoral, whether in the doctrine of the ccurch -- which it does not specify -- or otherwise.

[quote]3. Not allowing a sorceress to live: See above. The Jewish people were the people through whom God was bringing the Messiah. Sorceresses worshipped demons, and they did it knowing the prohibition against it. Not worshipping demons also happens to be in your interest.[/quote]

So they should be killed?

[quote]4. Psalm 137 is a lament of the Jewish people who were taken into captivity by the Babylonians, who murdered many people, probably even children. It reflected their mindset of persecution and a longing for deliverance. This is not a command to throw children against rocks.[/quote]

But it says "Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks"?

[quote]6. Slavery passages are way misunderstood and used by non-believers to beat believers over the head. One, slavery here shouldn't be likened to the African slave trade. Two, another overarching narrative of the Bible is that God is anti-slavery. God brought the Jewish people OUT of slavery, and the consequences for the enslaving Egyptians were severe. Also, notice the provisions for freeing slaves in the seventh year. Also, sin, which God is decidedly against, is likened repeatedly to slavery of the soul. And the Book of Philemon lays out that Christ commands us not to hold slaves. The passages about slaves submitting to masters is as a testimony of witness to slaveholders so that they might be ASHAMED of being slaveholders and turn from holding slaves. The "pro"-slavery passages in the Bible stem partly from indentured servitude and partly from the tribal makeup of the Middle East during these ages, when the Jewish people were beset on all sides from people groups trying to kill them to extinction. [/quote]

The "Slavery passages are misunderstood" canard has been tried time and time again.  There is no context in which slavery is not immoral, and the instructions on beating your slave and the punishment you don't get as long as he doesn't die is explicit.  You 100% fail. here, sorry.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Bible

Again, I respect your sincere attempt.
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