If those who walk according to the laws of God are blameless, as Psalm 119:1-3 says, there cannot be any moral blemishes in those laws. In agreement with what Paul, the alleged antinomian, explicitly affirms in the New Testament (Romans 7:7, 12, 1 Timothy 1:8-11), Psalm 119:7 and 75 say that Yahweh's laws are righteous. This is not the only Psalm to articulate such things. Psalm 1:1-2 contrasts obeying Yahweh's laws with acting wickedly, as 1 John 3:4 does, and it presents meditating on God's law—that is, the Torah's Mosaic Law—as righteous. In fact, Deuteronomy 6:6-7 prescribes talking about the tenets and justice of Mosaic Law at different times of day as one goes about life. After all, if there is something morally obligatory, it is what should be done, and if it should be done, it should be reflected on rationally (free of philosophical errors) as well as holistically committed to. This includes the penalties the Biblical God reveals as just. What is now called Mosaic Law is said to be from God, not Moses (Exodus 20:22, 21:1, Numbers 6:1, and more).
It is not as if the New Testament actually says anything contrary to any of this; verses like 1 John 3:4 are as unambiguous as they can be that violating the Torah's laws is sin. None of this changes because time has passed or Jesus was born, died, and ascended. It is not slavery that is Biblically evil, therefore, but slavery based on kidnapping (Exodus 21:16), or the physical abuse of slaves (Exodus 21:26-27), and so on. There is no such thing as slavery, among other things, in the form codified in the Bible (such as in Exodus 23:12 and Deuteronomy 15:12-18) being evil on Christian philosophy. It cannot possibly be the case for capital punishment to be unjust as far as the methods and instances Yahweh prescribes if Christianity is true. To punish differently or not punish at all is what would be unjust, because justice is enacted by obeying God's commands. I have seen people quote Psalm 119:105 on how God's word is a lamp for their feet and a light for their path, all while probably having no idea that the author of Psalm 119 would be shocked or infuriated at their stances on criminal justice, moral epistemology, and the nature of the so-called Old Testament deity.
Would these imbecilic, philosophically delusional pseudo-Christians ever say something like "The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold" (Psalm 119:72)? How about "Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long" (119:97) or "I hate double-minded people, but I love your law" (119:113)? No, not with any sincerity, or else they could not believe or profess such Biblically heretical ideas. They might, however, think that according to the New Testament God's law is evil (directly denied by verses like Deuteronomy 4:5-8, Ezekiel 33:17, 20, Hebrews 2:2, and James 1:13), that God changed his moral nature (directly denied by Malachi 3:6, James 1:17), that loving people is a "new" command contrary to what Mosaic Law already requires (directly denied by Leviticus 19:18, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 10:19, and Matthew 22:34-40), that sin and justice for sin are culturally relativistic (directly denied by Leviticus 18:1-5, 24-30, 20:22-23, Deuteronomy 4:5-8, etc.), or that Jesus and Paul condemned Mosaic Law (directly denied by the likes of Matthew 5:17-19 and Galatians 5:13-14).
Ironically, such fools might think that the "Great Commission" of Matthew 28:16-20, though given only to the apostles who saw Christ after his resurrection is for all people/Christians to fulfill, or that Paul's letters to individual churches contain nothing but universal moral demands (even where this would contradict what the Old Testament says comes from God), but that God revealing what is and is not sin to the Israelites would somehow mean that the same things are not also good or evil for people of other regions or cultures. Now, God's revealed obligations for Israel would only be righteous and obligatory if what he is prescribing really is morally mandatory independent of time and culture, save for that which is by necessity limited to context, such as the regulations tied to an active Levitical priesthood. Of course, Jesus pushes back against the misconception that he in any way came to abolish the Torah's laws in Matthew 5:17-19 and goes so far as to say that anyone who teaches others to break the most relatively trivial commandments will be least in the kingdom of heaven. Elsewhere, he firmly or even fiercely condemns people setting aside God's commands for subjective preferences and human traditions (Matthew 15:1-20, 23:1-3, 23-24, Mark 7:1-13).
Aside from the Bible, it is logically impossible for God to be evil as opposed to amoral or terrifying but still good (only the divine nature could ground morality rather than irrelevant moral feelings/preferences or petty social norms), for cultural relativism to be true, and so on. The Bible is consistent with these necessary truths, yes, but neither the independent truths of reason (independent of God as necessary truths [1]) nor the doctrines of the Bible as literally put forth are heeded by antinomians who think themselves committed Christians. If murder is wrong because people are made in the image of God (Genesis 9:6; 1:26-27, 5:1-2), and the image of God is not removed from humanity after Christ, then this would not be altered by time, geography, or culture. Few of them might deny this exact ramification, but the same would have to be true of all other interpersonal obligations (such as those of Exodus 21:15-36 after those of the murder passage in 21:12-14), including those concerning how to punish particular sinners in this life, because they are also about how to rightly treat people made in the image of a God who does not change. Psalm 119 acknowledges Yahweh's Torah laws as righteous because they come from God, who is righteous, emphasizing that they are true and good not be because of time and place but because this is their very nature. If Christianity is true, all of this is the case, whether someone likes it or not. How unlike the irrationalistic and unbiblical philosophy of many who identify as Christians in America!
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