OK, so I am reading through chapter 21 of Ex. and it is talking about slave laws and restitution laws. Some are making me angry like "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money." It is assuming that it is normal for a slave to be beaten. I don't think God wants a slave to be beaten I also don't think God thinks it is OK, so why does God make it seem like it is normal? FRUSTRATING!
This passage really confused me:
7"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
Is a slave his wife or the wife of his son. And if she is not cared for she can leave him? Is that not divorce?
Anyway what I saw about God relating to people is this. He planned ahead for His people a way for them to live. he was acquainted with what was happening in the world at that time and he dealt with cultural issues. He has an opinion on how things should be handled and relates that to Israel. He thinks about our lives! That is pretty cool but also weighing and scary. If Dr. Hester is right and Paul did say in Romans that Christs active obedience is passed to me than I can handel God's expectations of me because I don't have to handle them Jesus already did.
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