But Bex, things have improved as well. In Biblical times, people owned slaves. They stoned people to death. Women were chattel. I'm pretty glad not to be someone's chattel.
Slavery still exists today. Visit the muslim countries of Africa and Asia, women are considered chattel to this day. Visit a muslim neighborhood in the UK. Visit Asia, China. Visit a brothel in any part of the world, perhaps you will encounter children, teenagers and women held captive as sex workers, from East Europe, from Russia, from various countries in Asia, Africa, from Mexico, even children abducted from the USA.
If you are not aware of these things, you are very ignorant of the things going on in the world around you. Hebrew women were never chattel. That is the way of the pagans, which God abhorred.
You live in a world that has taught you lies and you believe the lies and promulgate them and build your world of lies around them. Like Pwcca who would have us all believe that christians are resonsible for everything he sees as a problem or error in this world from his unique perspective. Neither of you can accept the fact that you are terribly deceived and brainwashed and even programmed, in a sense, to hate God.
But history remains. you would be better spending your time studying it than reading nonsense such as your hitchhikers guide.
[color:"blue"]Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. [/color]
