Leviticus 25:1 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
44 " 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life,
Exodus 20 gives different rules for Hebrew slaves than the passage above, stating Hebrew slaves were freed in 6 years, rather than owned for life and willed to descendants, proving Jehovah to be racist, since whether you were a slave for life or not was dependent on race. Exodus 21:20 tells us we can beat our slaves without penalty, provided they don't die from the beating within a day or two. In the New Testament, Paul goes so far as to tell a slave who ran away to go back to his master, while Jesus never once spoke out against slavery at all! Is it moral to condone slavery?
2007-08-12
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