RE: The Problem with Christians
March 7, 2016 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 4:41 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(March 7, 2016 at 3:59 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: WHY WOULD THE ETERNAL CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE ALLOW HIS PEOPLE TO OWN THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AS PROPERTY FOR ONE FREAKIN' DAY!?!?I want to focus on this point for a second.
God put us here under free moral agency. A person is free to do as he chooses, and that means to sell himself in to servitude if he so wishes.
Again servants were NOT property! Chattel slavery was always involuntary.
Eleazar was Abraham's servant and was also his heir, does that sound like property to you? Since when did property have a right to inherit anything?
Say you have one person that owns lots of land (a place to provide housing) and crops / livestock (food), and you have others that own nothing but need food and shelter, and are willing to work for it, except currency doesn't exist.
What would you propose?