@latein @ArdainianRight @hachi @djsumdog @meowski @BowsacNoodle @SuperLutheran @mrsaturday >There is a "god of this world", and I'm considering whether Yahweh was originally meant to be omniscient, because Moses' intercession makes no sense otherwise.

God is omniscient, He is also merciful and compassionate.

Satan is called the "god of this world" not in the sense that Satan is a god (he isn't), it's in the sense that he is the ruler of this world because this world has rejected God to follow Satan. You can be autistic about the use of the word god here but it doesn't imply that Satan created this world (he didn't), nor does it imply that he is the same kind of being as God (he very much isn't).

>Free will does not separate God from his role in creating man and permitting him to sin, and forming billions to sin continually. Paul does not get to absolve God and neither do you.

Do you also blame your parents for your own mistakes?

You want to blame God for permitting people to sin while also rejecting that same God who came to save people from sin. You can have that cake but I'm not sure you should be eating it too.

>Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery to test Jesus. Note that in Leviticus as you have already mentioned it's said "the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." Where then was the man? She was apparently "caught in the act" (John 8:3 ESV) so surely they must have caught her and the man? Where then is the man?

With this we know that the Pharisees are up to no good, they challenge Jesus and how does Jesus respond? "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." (John 8:7) Jesus doesn't tell them not to stone the woman. He doesn't break the Law, He challenges them to follow the Law but their own consciences betray them and they slink away one by one until only Jesus and the woman are left. They abandon their case against her showing that they couldn't care less about the Law and justice but that they just wanted to attack Jesus.

Jesus then, as God, chooses to have mercy on the woman and forgive her: “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” (John 8:11)

>How hard is "shall surely be put to death" to understand? The reason the Jews reject Christian interpretations is because they are wrong. Take Deuteronomy 24:1-4 for instance. That's not "Moses suffered it to be so" that's God setting up laws for divorce.

If only God Himself elaborated on divorce, oh wait, He did:

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” (Matthew 19:3-9)

“Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

There you go, there's the skinny on divorce. Do all Christians follow it? Sadly no, but there's the clear Word of God and may He have mercy on those who do not keep it.