Is God Really Moral & Good? You Decide

Is the Bible really a book of morality inspired by a loving God as we were taught as children, or do many believe in it because they fail to know what it really says…part 1

I am amazed that many current Christians deny that the following scriptures are in their Bible. All quotes are from the New American Standard, reputed to be the most accurate translation. They are not a mixture of translations to present the worst possible picture. If the words “good and moral” has any meanings at all, it must apply to God also. Otherwise, they do not mean a thing.

Deuteronomy 22:28–29: “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and SEIZES her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.”

Deuteronomy 21:10–13: ”When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her (that means to rape her) and be her husband and she shall be your wife.” (Rape and kidnapping were not only approved by the Bible, but they were expressly authorized as part of God’s Law)

Exodus 21:1–6: ”Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, (note very carefully the different laws for the Hebrew slave versus the foreign slave), he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.” (Note that God’s law mandated that the slave’s wife and children were the property belonging to his master, but a nice loophole for the master was to let his slave keep his wife and children if he agrees to become the masters’ slave for life. Foreign slaves were slaves for life and were property that the master passed on to his heirs. They had no way to keep their wife or children. Period!)

Exodus 21:20–21: “If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.” (Despite this clear language, many apologists and preachers will lie and teach that Biblical slavery was nothing more than indentured service. We see that that assertion is just not true)

If God is in fact truly a moral, loving, all knowing and all-powerful God, why was not one of His commandments “thou shall never own another human being?” Why didn’t one of them clearly say that “no man shall ever sell his daughter nor shall any man ever rape, kidnap or hurt a woman?” Instead, of course, He demanded that all disobedient children be brought before the elders and stoned to death; demanded that thousands of innocent animals be burnt every day, as He loved the “sweet aroma” as the smoke floated up to his house in heaven; and among the more than 600 other commands, many of which mandated death if violated, were never to boil a kid goat in its mothers’ milk, never trim your beard, never wear clothes with more than one type of fabric, never work on the Sabbath; and when a Mother gives birth to a son, she is declared to be unclean for 33 days; but giving birth to a baby girl, she is unclean for 66 days. Think about that. During that time, she must not touch any consecrated thing or enter the sanctuary. A law even mandated that we must stand when a grey headed man entered a room, but it was fine to own slaves and to rape young virgin girls.

We will now end this horror with just one more; the story of Lot and his two daughters.

This is the Biblical account of Lot and his daughters after the two angels that Lot hosted were being threaten by the men of the city. Genesis 19:8: “Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.” (Who would ever honor a father who freely offered their daughters to be raped and who told the crowd of men that they could do whatever they wished to them? The answer is the New Testament, which incredibly honors Lot by calling him “righteous Lot” in 2 Peter 2:7.)

The Story of Lot continues after the daughter’s Mother is killed and turned into a pillar of salt; Genesis 19:30–36: “Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come into us after the manner of the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.” So, they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus, both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.” The Bible incredibly blames the young girls for becoming pregnant. The story is physically impossible, yet the “inspired” Bible tells us that on consecutive nights, these young girls got their father so drunk he passed out and then literally was able to rape him. Please realize that the setting of this is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot being the only worthy man God saw fit to rescue.

Part 2 will come later after we recover from the above