Would it be safe to say that the Old Testament sometimes provided bad advice for that era...?

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (New International Version)





If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.Would it be safe to say that the Old Testament sometimes provided bad advice for that era...?
That's some classic literature. Most of them seem to shy from the OT... I no longer wonder why.Would it be safe to say that the Old Testament sometimes provided bad advice for that era...?
The passage talks about marriage and how to conduct yourself. It points out how a man shouldn't let his wife of the hook, just because she's your wife.


'Even if your wife helps you, but touches another man's 'private area' in the process, you should punish her.'


It does not take in to account circumstance or accident and could lead to rash judgements if read in a literaly sense.


Fair ?, NO.
Yes, it would be safe to say... bad advice.





The Sermon on the Mount was good, but now many ';believers'; say that the Sermon on the Mount does not apply to them!!!!





So in the sense, the book is letting everyone down.





But of course a book is not the light of God either. That would be the real thing. Click on my avatar if you want and explanation of this answer.
I think all the laws of Moses were good for that era. Why, he was a prophet of the almighty God. It is easy for us to laugh at these laws, I think it is because we don't understand that time and culture. In some passages in the Bible we can read what these people did when they did not live under any law, it was horrible (read for example the Book of Judges).


Jesus said these laws were given because people had such hard hearts. I think Jesus was right. There may come a time even in our western culture when people may want to have stricter laws, if circumstances require it.
I guess this blows your theoretic blasphemy, huh?





2 Timothy 3: 16 - 17 tells us unequivocally:





All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.


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well try leviticus 18....that part is against gays! and people who have sex with relatives! and people who have sex with dogs! and it says if they do all the bad sexual practises you'll ruin the promise land and bring famine and disease(thankgod australia aint a promised land)
Don't believe the Old Testament


That piece of literary work won't work in modern times... it's too unideal for our way of life now... we have a revolutionary human rights and different constitutions now which are logically and practically better than any primitive religious texts.
The old testament is quite flawed, that is why the new testament came along. The old testament is very primitive in many aspect. The new testament reflects the growth in human attitudes over the years
Hahaha the old testament reads like the hilarious old english laws that no one botherd getting rid of.
Very harsh %26amp; outdated advice
Why judge Moses when you did not live in a time of coming out of Egyptian bondage with thousands of complaining Jews in the wilderness.





Our culture is way different than theirs.





This law imputes that godly shamefacedness is preferred: for it is a horrible thing to see a woman past shame.
That is bad advice. You should cut off the guy's private parts not her hand. What was God thinking.
This seams to be the law of the gangs.
You got a better idea?
How about the verse where they kill all the people with a different religion, that is wrong too.