(June 21, 2022 at 1:06 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: I'd rather focus on what it does say. For example, the instructions on how to own slaves and Paul's musings about servants being obedient to their masters.
If one looks at all the commentaries in the following centuries (Christian, Jewish, pagan), slavery was never an issue. Christians who pull abolitionist texts out of the Bible are treating it as a form of religious play dough, morphing it into whatever they want it to be for them.