Here's my original post again,
If God is absolutely moral, and scripture inerrant, then why are there so many direct commands from God in the OT - such as allowing slavery, death sentences for things we don't even consider crimes anymore, genocide, and rape - that we would immediately recognize as immoral today?
He is the potter. We are the clay. (Romans 9:21)
Will we put God on trial and raise a complaint and a charge against God and assign guilt? Job tried that in the earliest and oldest book in the Bible. Will not God put us on trial? He will be found moral and just and righteous and not us.
As God has given life, he can also take life away.
People can go deep into debt and end up with nothing left to pay to another except themselves and thus they become a slave. Slavery initiated by kidnapping and imprisonment is a problem but not all slavery has begun that way.
Death sentences continue to be imposed around the world unjustly. Have you been protesting against every injustice? Crimes against an exalted and holy God are more serious than crimes against a lesser being. Again, He is the potter; we are the clay. God gives life and retains the right to take it away. Only by mercy and forebearance does God sustain a life after once it has sinned and all have sinned. His mercies are renewed daily. (Lamentations 3:22).
In the OT, we find God's power at work to open up the earth and swallow rebels (Numbers 16). In the OT, we find God sending an angel and wiping out an Assyrian army of 180,000+ (2 Kings 19; Isaiah 37).
You don't need to share here but...What is your response to questions you've raised and responses that you've been given?
Thank you for initiating this thread. Seek God while life and breath remain. We are obligated to seek Him more than He is obligated to reveal Himself yet He has given revelation of Himself in the Bible and nature and reason.