Some people claim that the Bible contains many racist and sexist statements that are mainly located throughout the Old Testament. These people are correct. The Bible is an honest book that tells about true life and it will not bend to fit our cultural expectations of a "religious text". Woman and men are not the same, they are two unique sexes that greatly differ. Similarity, being Jewish in the Old Testament was NOT equal to being a Canaanite. The Jews, as a race, were seen as God's people and the Canaanites were not. The Bible offers no apologies for this, and rightfully so. Just because we have the desire to state that men and woman are the same and the Jewish people were the same as the gentiles, doesn't mean that this is true. There are also many instances in the Bible where violence was prescribed to handle the situation and sometimes this involved the slaughter of a whole village. Does this mean that the God commanded "evil" things? Of course not, why should we claim to know what is morally good or evil. What is good is defined by what God does, not what we would want Him to do. For more information on what "good" is, check out this link:
http://spiritualsojourners.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-is-difference-between-good-and.html
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