The Strange Passage of Grace.
We all have that moment when we try to read the Bible cover to cover. We come to the strange passages of Exodus 21 and following. These laws seems so out of touch, so unlike the God we know throughout the rest of scripture. Many people lose their confidence in the scriptures when they read these passages. Many use them to deny the Bible completely. But there's something we can learn about God from even the challenging passages that don't seem to represent Him in the same manner that other passages do. Exodus 21:20–27 (ESV) “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. 22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But i...