Do You Support Slavery?

What does the Bible say about slavery? The answer may surprise you

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[heatherwanderer7]

I believe thats OLD TESTAMENT, as in not the NEW...duh!

[flamingathiest]

and your point? if you dont believe in the old testament, then why to priests still read from it durring church? you cant just pick and choose which parts to worship. its just like what the new testament says, gods word is perfect and the bible is gods word.

[heatherwanderer7]

Because the old testament is the foundation and once the new covenent was made through the birth and death of Jesus, alot of things changed. Besides, I never said I didn't think slavery was just fine and dandy or that I think its completely wrong. I'm just pointing out a flaw in your arguement against God.

[flamingathiest]

then if the people who read from the bible dont support the old testament, then why dont they remove the old testament from their church? if the old testament is gods word, then, surely he would have known that it would be outdated and written in there somewhere not to follow it in the 21st century

[heatherwanderer7]

BECAUSE, as I said before....its the foundation! Its the begining. Its a starting point....ect. Anyway, obviously your not interested in a debate, as you barely seem to have a grasp of true nature of the thing you hate.

[flamingathiest]

oh, i beg to differ

i dont think you realize that all signs point that cavemen, primative people with no knowledge of modern science, wrote the bible. It says nothing about stem cells, or global warming, though it does say that pi=3 and that the universe was created 6000 years ago.

[jgmes2001]

So if a person was poor and could not get his own land, he would go to another person and ask to work for them in return for food and shelter. This was a mutual agreement not done against anybody's will.

[jgmes2001]

Biblical slavery is not the same thing as what we call slavery today. Today slavery means kidnapping a person against their will and forcing them to do work for you. This practice is CONDEMNED in the Bible. Look through the books of Moses - it is against the law to kidnap a person. The implication at that time was to kidnap a person to make them be your slave. Forced slavery was illegal.

[hakesho]

he's not really bashing the bible, he's just telling you what it says.

[flamingathiest]

I'll bring a fan

[Epydemic2020]

punished meant avenged. In that time period killing someone got you killed as well. The second verse also means if the slave gets up and lives. As in, he almost dies but he survives. Then the "master" is not put to death. But as you can see from the next few verses, the "slave" gets pardoned of his debt. Also, Biblical slavery is nothing like colonial slavery. I did a video on this if you want more details.

[Bunfire123]

well said!

[jgmes2001]

Why else was God so angry at Pharoah for making the Israelites slaves, or why would Joseph's brothers selling him to slavery be seen as a bad thing?

Do historical research and you'll learn what is translated as slavery for the ancient Israelites was more like a bond servant deal. See, in those days there was not a lot of money to be had. Most people lived off the land.

[hesham62123]

This is horrible I can't find any slave at the supermarket shelves.

[heatherwanderer7]

bye, and btw, thanks for introducing me to flippycat and dominoes stuff, seriously...kinda fun. :)