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Yes, the one who tortures their victim before killing them is worse.

A good answer would take a lot of space and lead us off-topic. So instead, a rhetorical question that I think answers - Do you think partial-birth abortions and third-trimester abortions are worse than early-term abortions and the morning-after pill? I do. I don't think of it that way, but...

Are you supporting the Nazis on this?

The Wailing Wall was not part of the temple. It's a retaining wall. But more importantly, the temple was not located on the so-called Temple Mount. It was located one mountain to the south. We know this because the Bible tells us that the temple was fed by the Gihon Spring. The spring still...

That's true, but the concrete definition in prior works is "life-giving" rather than "inspired." https://pastoralepistles.com/2021/02/22/poirier-the-invention-of-the-inspired-text/

The law doesn't stone rape victims. It requires the man to pay the bride price and support the woman as his wife. But it also allows the woman's family to reject that arrangement and instead seek vengeance.

Man is all of these things (but not at the same time), and we are made in the image of God, so isn't God all of these things? Some think of God as an epitome of certain attributes. I don't - I think He is capable of all, but it probably happens in turn, the same way it happens with man...

Did you know that is the only place in the Bible that uses that word? You've got a lot resting on that one word.

Fifth option. Not everything, but quite a bit. I hold all the books of prophecy to be inspired, including Deuteronomy and Psalms (which are prophetic books but usually classed as Law and Poetry, respectively). What isn't inspired? The books of History (Jos - 2Ch, Ezra, Nehemiah). The Poetic...

Great. Would you say that any part of the road south from the Salt Sea to Eilat is a "well-watered plain?" Yes to all, but not in a day. Also, Lake Gennesaret was filthy. Not a good place to swim. I stayed two weeks in a Kibbutz near the Lebanese border, a few days in a hotel in Tiberius...

I've been to the Dead Sea, Ein Gedi, and Masada, but didn't cross over to Jordan. Would love to see Petra in person, but probably isn't going to happen. That site is theoretically Gomorrah rather than Sodom but finding burnt stones at a site in the Great Rift Valley (a volcanically active...

It's weird to see TULIP in the unorthodox section. They're pretty mainstream beliefs, even if I don't hold them.

The location of Sodom is not well-agreed upon, but nobody puts it in modern-day Israel. It's west of Jordan or the Dead Sea. In Jordan.

Less than 10. In Genesis 18, Abraham asked God if He would spare the city if He found 10 righteous men there, and God agreed to it. But didn't find that many.

Most cultures associate good things with the right hand and bad things with the left. In Latin, they are dexter and sinister. Here's a Jewish perspective... https://aish.com/kabbala_12_chesed_and_gevurah_the_two_sided_approach/

What if Saul was really a hero, but fell victim to a massive disinformation campaign? :IDK: Do you think he had a blonde comb-over?

That's an ironic turn of phrase... leaves me wondering if the irony is intentional or no. I see how many come to that conclusion based on the text, but... Genesis 1-10 isn't a coherent chronological narrative. It's a patchwork quilt of traditions from several cultures. I would encourage you...

Fair enough. I still get to wish you had responded to anything relevant, rather than hyperfocusing on a bit of trivia.

That wasn't a premise of what I said. That was an aside that was tangentially related and provided as a matter of curiousity. No, deciphering ancient Hebrew is NOT like looking at English words. English has over 150K words, and most words have one meaning. Ancient Hebrew has just 8000-ish...

Those are bad questions. 'Things' are better than they were in the past and have been trending up for thousands of years now. Everything was not created 'perfect' but rather things were created unformed, and God has been forming it ever since and continues to do so... hence the way that things...