Slavery (on Thursdays)

[Huggy Bear]

The whole Jewish thing is absolutely irrelevant. 7 years or 7 minutes, I don't give a shit, its immoral.

how is it immoral if you decide to sell yourself in to servitude? Please explain. Not giving someone the freedom of choice to do what the want with their life would be "immoral".

And that trick esquilax was talking about, to enslave your fellow jew forever, you know how that works? You give the slave a wife and then maybe they have children. And at the end of the 7th year, you let the slave go but he has to leave his family behind. But if he wants to stay with his family, you drive a steak through his ear, and he is yours forever. .

If he came with a wife the wife could go with him. I would assume the 7 years still applied to his family, or just wait till the year year of Jubilee, whichever came first. I like how you assume that the person doesn't like being a servant and would never willingly agree to a life of free room and board, when the alternative is probably homelessness. If you ever watched Downton Abby you would find that some find being a servant for some great house an honor. Is that immoral?

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What - no quotes from the NT on Slavery?

Here's a favourite of mine:

"Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)"

Note the provision for your master being Christian himself. Not a word of reproach for him.

All that notwithstanding I have to say the Biblical line on slavery is exactly in accordance with the relationship between the believer and his God. Christians are God's slaves. There is no hope of ever getting freedom - not even after death.

2 words that are missing from the Bible - Democracy and Republic - I wonder why?

Like I said the words slave/slaves only appears twice in the King James Version of the Bible, which is the most accurate and popular translation.
some translations add words or leave out whole scriptures.

1 Timothy 6(KJV)
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

as you can see the word "Christian" doesn't even appear.