Numbers 23:22 “God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.”
Numbers 24:8 “God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.”
Job 39:9 “Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”
Job 39:10 “Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?”
Psalms 29:6 “He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.”
Psalms 92:10 “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”
Deuteronomy 33:17 “His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Psalms 22:21 "Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns."
Isaiah 34:7 “And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.”
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. Ephesians 6:5
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. Deuteronomy 17:12
This is a sad god showing little tolerance for other cultures to me personally.
However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Leviticus 25:44-46
You should not let a sorceress live. Exodus 22:17
What a tolerant god?
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. Exodus 21:20-21
Now, this is very kind. If I were god, I would have said. Owning slaves is wrong. Beating slaves is wrong. If you are caught doing either you will be punished.
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. Deuteronomy 20:10-14
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. Leviticus 20:13
I tend not to agree with any god who would kill someone for the way they were born. Interestingly enough, there are other cultures who believe that gays are two spirit individuals and they have special powers. The Lakota believe winkte (gays) to have special powers and while I don't buy that, I do respect that there are people that are different from me and its okay to be different.
Now, personally, I would make a law stating rape was bad under all circumstances and the rapist should be punished... and not the victim as the above clearly does.
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. Exodus 22:19
Again, this doesn't show acceptance of other cultures.... I just can't buy into any god that would be so cruel.
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. Deuteronomy 13:7-12
Killing followers of other religions by stoning them... not very sound guidance for any god.
The lakota looked at winkte as often having the power to foretell the future, give special names of power, and even assigned them roles of matchmakers. To see the vast difference in the way one culture looks at gays and another culture looks at gays and realizing that these cultural differences are based on religion makes one realize... that perhaps neither is viewpoint is true. Perhaps gays should not be killed or ostracized nor should the be assumed to have mystical powers. Perhaps, we should just realize that the world is full of people and we are all different, but do we really need the complications of unfounded blind beliefs to add to that mix and make things even more complicated?
