Living Springs Q&a

Q&A #183 Satan, God's laws, food pantry, God not punishing disobedience, sacrificial animals and more. 1. Thinking of the fallen angel who is Satan. Wondering if that is literal and if he is an actual leader of that world or if it’s a metaphor for the evil realm which yes I think has evil spirits 2. Why did so many of the laws God gave to Moses involve putting people to death for seemingly minor things, then not for others? For example, exodus 21:20 allows masters to beat their servants to death and the only consequence is they have to be "punished" by an unspecified means. And if that slave doesn't die but recovers within a couple days there is no punishment at all. But exodus 21:17 says whoever curses their parents must be put to death. Beating a servant to death seems way worse to me than causing division in a family, but it appears God thinks differently. Laws such as these don't seem to value individual life at all. Does God care less about individual life than I think or am I understanding this wrong