RE: Does the Bible promote slavery?
July 18, 2012 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2012 at 7:30 pm by nazra7.)
(July 18, 2012 at 7:22 pm)Napoleon Wrote:(July 18, 2012 at 7:20 pm)nazra7 Wrote: We know that the servants or slaves of the OT were owned as legal property, but we do not know if they were forced to obey.How can you be owned as fucking legal property and not be demanded to obey.
In a society where there is sex slavery commonplace, one may want to save a poor soul from being in this trade. One way to do that is to buy them out and protect them from being abused.
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If you can actually convince someone that being owned is not a form of slavery, let alone that the slaves in the OT weren't slaves at all... it does not also convince them that your god exists. Don't be daft.
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That is correct, but I'm not arguing for the existence of God. But if I do and if convinced that slavery is not in the OT, then one wouldn't have to worry about the idea of a God who encourages slavery.