TheWhiteMarten Wrote:What is the purpose in telling the slaves to obey their masters?
The purpose is for Paul to show that Christianity is pro-slavery.
TheWhiteMarten Wrote:the Church condemned slavery long before
So the Church condemned slavery by having slaves.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
