Agreed, but quite possibly divorce was something Moses did on is own. That
seems to be what Jesus is saying. He did other things on his own also. And
this is why I am not an inerrantist.
>Hence the phrase "I am the LORD" which appears liberally throughout the
law, as
>it was related in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. And there are things
I find
>far more unsettling than God permitting divorce because the people's
hearts were
>hard: for example, the section (in Exodus, I think, though I'm not sure; I
can
>look it up if you want the reference) which says that it's perfectly OK for a
>man to beat the living daylights out of his (non-hebrew) slave (my
paraphrase),
>so long as the slave doesn't die, but gets up after a few days, because the
>slave is his property. As property, a slave can be passed by will from
father to
>son...
>I am the LORD.
>(The rules were somewhat different for Hebrew slaves.)
>I haven't yet reached a satisfactory (to my mind) conclusion about verses
like
>this - they bother me. At least in the NT, slave traders are condemned -
though
>concessions are still made to slave owners, of course.
That is troubling indeed.
glenn
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