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The old testament was put together in an extraordinarily haphazard fashion from rumours, various second and third hand stories, gossip, accepted wisdom, superstition, anecdotal morality tales, and a bit of history - to the extent there actually was recorded history at the time. It was written in various languages that have been more or less successfully translated - a subject about there is much debate. It has no one coherent source - that much is clear. It is internally inconsistent to the point where anyone at all can interpret anything at all into it. It is brutal and primitive because it was born of brutal and primitive times.
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Wow, you sound like a subject matter expert. You must have spent years studying the old testament.
Funny thing is, I do not agree with your assesment at all. Not one bit. And I can honestly say that I have studied it a great deal. I am not yet an expert and I may never be, but I spend time several days a week reading it, thinking about it, and discussing it with others who are very well versed and are closer to being biblical experts that I. None of them would agree with your assumption either.
In fact my senior pastor has a master's degree on that particular subject and has spent 35 years studying and discussing the bible and he would strongly disagee with you. Are you more of an expert that he is? Are you smarter than he is? I seriously doubt it.
So please, explain your qualifications that make you such an expert. That is, unless you simply got that off an anti-christian website or just made it all up.
No, a link to some whack-job website put up by a Christian hater will not do.