(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.
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
The only way to turn this around using context is by inserting " I was joking. " at the end.
