(January 3, 2019 at 4:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 3, 2019 at 4:21 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Again, context is important. Instead of just posting the scripture and looking at what it meant in context, you posted your interpretation. What you are reading in Exodus 21 is Moses speaking about formal ordinances. It's not encouraging violence against slaves, but addressing the terms to which there would be a judicial ruling against a party. The issue with female servants is because they were sold as wives, which is why they wouldn't have been released in the seventh year. They weren't married to their male slaves, so they were free to go, but they could willfully stay. Many slaves had a financial obligation, so their work was also seen as "money" and that's how it was looked at judicially. How we apply these things today is different.
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.
The best way to understand Christian requirements by God's law is to look at two things (Ten Commandments + Greatest Commandments). With the Ten Commandments, the first four are a direct responsibility to God, and the last six are our responsibility to each other. Of course Jesus simplified it even more by saying to love God with all of your heart, soul, and mind, which encompasses the first four (greatest commandment), and to love your neighbor as yourself, which encompasses the last six.
Will you look at that?
The first 4 commandments are about kissing ass, and only after you do that, he will consider you. Not exactly altruistic if you ask me. Seems like a PR campaign.
Your top priority as the boss is to make sure everyone kisses your ass? Yea, ok, not a boss I want running any business I work for. I am glad FDR didn't talk like Trump. We'd all be speaking German now.
Not at all. It establishes relationship. First 4 - relationship to God. Last 6 - relationship to fellow man.
It is about community and family. At the heart of Christianity, that is what it is meant to look like. How it's presented many times, not so much.
My parents gave my brother and I various rules to follow. Had nothing to do with kissing up to them. If one of us broke a rule, they dealt with us but in a loving way. If it weren't for those rules, then there would've been no standard for order, and that disorder would extend beyond the household. Sometimes there was a penalty, but it wasn't because they wanted there to be, but because it reinforced the rule and I knew not to try it again. Perfect love is unconditional and it didn't matter how many times I broke the rules, they still loved me the same. God does the same for us.
