Also, I use the Bible as my moral compass as well when my own selfish desires get in the way of what really is the right thing to do.
I don't want it to appear I'm picking on you. I'm just replying to what you post. However, you most certainly do NOT use the bible as a moral compass. It plainly tells you not to seek wealth, yet you've admitted to investing in bitcoin to make money. I hope you make a killing, but your god doesn't. I'm just curious why you say one thing and do another. It seems to be a common trait among the religious, who also claim their book of rules is "absolute". Curious, indeed.
This will sound weird to you but after praying about it, we felt like God wanted us to invest in Bitcoin. Still not sure why. We have not really made much yet (A little but we bought in when it was on the rise and our average price is about $120 for the relatively small amount we have), but maybe God wanted us to buy just so I would log in to this message board and share with someone on here my story? Who knows really. So, I disagree with you in that. The Bible is my compass. God is my pilot. I try as best as I can to listen to Him. I don't always do as good of a job of doing that as I should, unfortunately. He is patient with me, thankfully.
I still do not understand why you think God does not want us to be wealthy? Greed is bad. Selfishness is bad. But there were many wealthy people in the Bible that did great things. So I just don't get it.
That said, as for your posts about the Old Testament rules, such as clothing, marrying a rapist, etc. I sometimes wonder about those things too. I just know that culturally women were treated as property back then. If a women was no longer a virgin, she was not allowed to marry (She was considered used property) so perhaps it was God intervening to cause her to at least have a family? Perhaps a merciful action based on the cruel society that they were living in at the time? I am just speculating here. As a woman I should be thanking God that I was not born during that time in history! And God had rules to set the Israelites apart from others at the time. There was the laws on the clothing, the food (kosher) and various other things some of which was can analyze that there was some benefit, but others might make us scratch our heads and wonder.