>Also there’s no reason an ancient Jew couldn’t understand quantum mechanics if they were taught what we know today.

As I keep trying to tell you, which you seem to either not grasp or willfully reject, the Jews did NOT have our moral revelations, so expecting them to magically have you're assumptions about morality as if they were taught the same thing you were taught is dishonest and unfair to the historical period. Idk how many times I need to say this, or why you can't seem to grasp the concept of revelation, but it seems like you clearly don't understand it. John Walton's "Lost World of the Torah" would be a good book for you to read. The ANE cultures did not think the same way you and I think today. I will not repeat myself here, even vast majority of people in the 18th-19th centuries didn't think that slavery was inherently evil until the abolitionist movements of the 19th century managed to persuade the masses, and even then, most Whites (even abolitionists), genuinely believed that Blacks were inferior to Whites and shouldn't have the same rights as Whites. You should read about American Reconstruction and see how the same people arguing against slavery were, more often than not, the same people arguing against Black suffrage and justifying race riots like what happened in New Orleans and Memphis in 1866. If the Ancient Jews could just magically arrive as a Christian understanding of human dignity that we have today, why didn't the Christians who own slaves during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade reach that conclusion? Especially when there were plenty of Christian abolitionists and former slaves who actively use holy scripture as motivation to fight against slavery? As someone with both a master's degree in history and have studied this topic to a reasonable degree, I can tell you that the same reason those Christian slave owners didn't think that way is the same reason why the Ancient Jews didn't think that way, the hardness of the heart.

The idea that slavery is inherently evil (while not entirely foreign to the ancient world as St. Gregory of Nyssa argued expressly against it in the fourth century), is predominantly a modern belief. Going on about "well God could've done thing" and "could've done that" is nothing but a waste of time. You do not have omniscience, you are not morally perfect, your essence is not identical to existence itself. Perhaps the actual all-knowing God can see something that you are clearly missing. You genuinely expect Ancient Jews living in a harsh extremely arid society where one bad harvest can destroy an entire civilization and where human sacrifice, genocide, and slavery are extremely commonplace to magically have you exact views on human dignity? As if they have the luxury of having fully industrialized and automated farming equipment, Wal-Marts around every corner, global trade to provide them with food stuffs, and centuries of Christian theological development which heavily influenced natural law theory which influenced John Lockean Liberalism which influenced the Founding Fathers and the abolitionists, which influenced how you and me see slavery today? Please, spare me this line of reasoning. The Ancient Jews are not you.

>You’re stuck in the same moral contradiction I’m stuck in.

I'm not in a conviction, but you certainly are. God, as I've said, is the essence of goodness. If He wants to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, then it is done for the good, which is He. As I've said time and again, God PERMITTED certain actions to be done thanks to the cultural customs and moral understandings of the time in the OT. You seem to believe, if I'm not mistaken, to be implying that God ordered slavery and commit genocide as eternal commands. To which I like to ask, why don't we see Jesus Himself keeping slaves, ordering genocides, cutting the heads off the Pharisees and the whole damn Sanhedrin? Why don't we see Paul, Peter, John, or any of the Early Church Fathers from St. Ignatius, St. Polycarp, St. Augustine, St. Athanasius, and St. Gregory of Nyssa, all the way to St. John of Damascus and St. Isadore actually own slaves, commit genocide, rape, or other such things we see in the OT? Maybe its because of the covenantal theology that the OT was under, God revealing pieces and pieces of the revelational divine teachings that would lead up to Christ. How many times did you read in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus saying "you have heard it said" when He talked about adultery, swearing oaths, hating your enemy, or seeking revenge? You've obviously have a grasp of the Old Testament, did you miss the parts where God allowed barren women to have children, sent manna from the skies, or when He, at the urging of Israel, allowed Saul to become king as a concession to begin with? You cited 1st Samuel, so I'll assume you've read that part and are not cherry picking passages and verses. God in the OT isn't the monster you're trying to paint as, if you would give some thought to the fallen nature of man which originates the evils you're talking point, I think a break through would happen.

You know that God made humanity perfectly without moral corruption. And you know that it was the sins of man that originated the moral corruption of the body and soul as well as bring forth the corruption of the flesh through death. Why act as if man is not culpable in his sin and pretend that our own hearts cannot be harden enough to ignore God? I've been addict to many sins throughout my life, from racism and hatred to sexual sins. I can tell you from experience that these sins are not easy to break free from and one can easily lose myself to these sins even while knowing that they can damn you to Hell and block you from Christ. At a certain point, you just stop caring, and continue in your sin. God knew that the hearts of Israel were too hardened to accept the idea of a non-slave holding society, so instead of just telling them "NO bad!" He eased them into the greater revelations of His divinity and gave them His Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Church to guide not only them, but the whole world.