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Either the OT is the word of god, telling us how to behave, or it's made up by the people who wrote it
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It's neither! These people were inspired by their experiences of God to write. He did not make the parchment and ink appear, neither did he dabble with dictation (apart from Revelations, so to speak), he just spoke through people. It would be like me writing about my expereinces with Him and how I feel He lives in me and wants me to help others.
Now humans being humans, we are prone to error. This may or may not have happened in the OT. There are some who follow the Bible to the letter of the law, that's up to them.
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The problem I've raised is nothing to do with whether we'd follow what the bible says or not, it's whether what the bible says is actually what god wanted.
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I believe it is, when you discount human error.
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And if the OT is like that, who's to say that the NT isn't also like that? Written by men with good but flawed intentions, claiming they are writing about how god wants us to behave
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The difference with the NT, especially the Gospels, is that we had someone on earth to check things were correct and in order with.