RE: The Problem with Christians
March 7, 2016 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2016 at 6:17 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(March 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Ugh, I can't believe someone as smart as you is being this dense.Eleazar was from Damascus, he was not a Hebrew, yet he was Abraham's heir
System #1: Slavery/Bondservant - Non-Israelite is owned, against his will, by an Israelite master, and may be willed (along with children) to the children of the master.
System #2: Indentured Servitude - An Israelite bonds himself to the service of another person, perhaps in exchange for repayment of debts.
The fact that there was a system by which a person could voluntarily (or under pressure of debt) sell himself into servitude does not mean that it's the only system, that the other system didn't exist, or that they're both basically the same thing. If you talk about the Indentured Servitude system (#2) one more time as a way of deflecting from the existence of System #1, slavery, I'm going to have to conclude you're being willfully ignorant, and are beyond help and reason.
And are you seriously proposing the people of ancient Israel had no currency?
Also Where did the Hebrews get currency from? they were nomads when they left Egypt with pretty much the clothes on their back.
Just humor me and offer a solution to the scenario I provided.
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I should also mention:
(March 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: System #1: Slavery/Bondservant - Non-Israelite is owned, against his will, by an Israelite master, and may be willed (along with children) to the children of the master.
just because YOU say so doesn't make it true.
"And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death."
There are no exceptions to that law, therefore one could not take another person against their will.