RE: Does the Bible promote slavery?
July 19, 2012 at 1:36 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2012 at 1:36 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Context: This was culture in which it was perfectly OK,nay,expected, to kill a recalitrant child for being disrespectful. The mind boggles at how such people would treat indentured servants and slaves.
Quote:Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Quote: Leviticus 20:9 ESV
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
Quote: Proverbs 30:17 ESV
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
