Post by Isapop on Jan 3, 2019 18:36:03 GMT
So let's apply your analogy to slavery.
Schools know they're powerless to forbid teenagers from having sex. So they do what they can to minimize some bad consequences.
Was God in a similar position, powerless to forbid the Israelites from engaging in slavery? And that's why he regulated it, because it would happen anyway, even if he forbade it?
Maybe, God thought that a foreign enemy is better as a live slave than a dead combatant? Or that some people's chances of survival would rely on just being a slave?...
So He provided rules for such arrangements.
I dunno... Like I said... I'm not really defending slavery here...