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Strict, complete obedience is what the God of the Old Testament required - even if it meant doing things personally abhorrent to you. By modern standards it doesn't seem like a very nice thing to do. No, well, it wasn't, but today we don't run across the total-obedience requirement that was much more prevalent in older cultures.
It's a difficult paradigm to grasp in our individualist world, but it makes sense if you push your own biases aside. Whether or not you think God's a jerk has nothing to do with anything.
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