(July 10, 2012 at 1:03 am)Drich Wrote:(July 10, 2012 at 12:08 am)Annik Wrote: I sincerely hope you are kidding.
remember Slavery in the OT is not what was being labeled as Slavery in America.
(Despite how some wish to trivialize and dismiss The Recorded Law of the OT Jew, and Historical facts about Pre civil war America.)
So why is biblically based slavery not always bad? Because, Biblically based slavery establishes the paradigm between believer and our Lord and Master. To understand How OT Jews were to treat their slaves is to understand how to balance this life with what is expected of us, Verses how it is we have been freed. Otherwise if you simply say all slavery is bad, then you simply give up one master for another (who's more oppressive than the last/Sin for Legalistic Religions of Man. Which have little to do with God.)
We are slaves to sin. the Majority of you who have any Christian experience i would say that ALL Slavery is Bad all of the time. Yet you only know of an oppressive God who's yoke is more oppressive than the sin you believe you can control. But the opposite is true. Because you believe that all Slavery is always bad none of you have learn to submit as a (OT) slave to God. It is only as a slave (God's definition of the word, not ours) that we will ever know true freedom. But because we are a slave to sin (and do not know it) we can only see the oppression of the religions that choose to represent God, and think they are one in the same. Why? Because we have taught ourselves to cast off all Masters, and by doings so have sold ourselves into true slavery.(But because you do not know what true slavery is you can not identify it) If you can not identify it you can not free yourself from it/sin (If you believe this to be false try living one day without sin) and you can not turn to God for help because you have mis identified Him as a Oppressive Master. Thus dooming you for an eternity, simply because you have closed your mind to a single word and it's true meaning.
Drich, you are more hopeless and pitiful than a balding well nourished Chia Pet.
