Yes, it most certainly looks strange for someone to countenance death for adulterers/etc. as perfectly reasonable with the weak justification that, well, we don't have to kill them anymore.Thaius said:Look, I know I can't convince you I'm right: I've been in too many debates like this to expect that. But the Christian mindset does make sense in context: you're just looking at it from your position, and it looks strange. So I don't expect you to become a Christian or anything, but maybe at least acknowledging that things look different from here than where you are: agree to disagree, as it were. The world (and especially this website) has enough people who hate Christians for no good reason.
I was raised to be a member of your religion, it's hardly foreign. But I did get out early, and you'll excuse me for not paying attention to every jot and tittle of such a blithely amoral belief system. You offer commands and punishments. Neither is a good foundation for morality, divine or otherwise. Legal positivism shuts off ethical questioning, and that is the framework for how you must treat scripture if you are to follow it.