Why does god endorse slavery so much in the bible?

Question

old and new testament so your new covenant with god argument wont hold any water....
these versuses deal with slavery in the bible
Genesis chapter 17, verse 12:
Exodus chapter 12 verse 43:
Exodus Chapter 21, verse 1:
Exodus Chapter 21, verse 20:If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.
Exodus Chapter 21, verse 32:
Leviticus Chapter 22, verse 10:
Leviticus Chapter 25, verse 44:
Luke, Chapter 7, verse 2:
Colossians, chapter 3, verse 22:

cathyhewed1946: maybe you should READ the bible once in a while, its a fact that he endorses slavery in the bible and read any of the selections i provided...you wont though because you are in denial about your fairy tale...

YO NADER: ive read the Qur'an also and although it does endorse slavery also, the qur'an allows for much better treatment of said slaves...

MONIQUE: big difference btwn slavery and divorce....god SAYS in the bible how to treat slaves and what to do with them (which is often times very gruesome) so why wouldnt god just say slavery is wrong if thats how he felt???he says whats wrong/right for everything else right??? im sorry you cant accept the horror of your own religion..

Answer 1

Like any other republican, the author of the bible likes cheap labor so the company can get record profits and keep the workin' man down.

Answer 2

And your point would be? No God doesn't endorse slavery. If you read the book of Exodus. God's people were in slavery. HELLO someone. He rescued them from the slavery. He parted the Red Sea for them to escape.

Do you have a clear understanding of God? If not lets start with with how God is? His nature? These verse don't say that God said OH I love slavery. But they deal with the very heart of man. SINFUL. These verse like all that your quoting shows that God allows slavery because of Man's sinful heart. Just as Jesus taught the Pharises that Moses allowed Divorce because of the hardness of man's heart. (Matthew 18:8)

I use this point to say that no where in the bible does God Himself endorse slavery or any other sin. It is allowed. Only because of the hardness of men's hearts.
ALSO Exodus chapter 12:43 is incorrect. Has nothing to do with slavery. You could be off by one verse. But read in context. You must read Exodus 12:43-51. God is discussing with Aaron and Moses the passover regulations.

In Exodus 21, you have to understand the history of the Hebrew nation. People were placed in situations like indentured servatude or slavery. Beacuse they owed money or their nation was conquered. That was the norm for that time. See the book of Philemon. Philemon was a Hebrew slave to another Christian. Paul beseeched the Christian master to be kind to Philemon because he had run away. This does in no way says that God Himself endorses slavery.

Please read in context. Which means read the entire chapter and ask the HOLY Spirit of God to guide you into all understanding.

Answer 3

The bible (except for setting up the government of Isreal) never really tells us how to run our government, only how to treat each other.

It deals with the way we interact with God and how to be happy in the situation we are in, If you are a slave, you become the best Christian slave you can be, if you were s slave owner, you are the best Christian slave owner you could be.

Of course the chirstian slave owner ( think or compare it today to the Christian business owner ( since most american business is very simular to economic slavery ** will address that at the end) But the Christian owner treating his slaves with love and as brothers in Christ, would have been a great person, and may have well freed his slaves but was not required to.

In today situation the business owner pays its employees less wage than you can live on. ( 5 to 7 dollars a hour) also they don't funish any health insurance, and if the employee is to sick to work, they get fired, So they can't afford to live in a home, and hardly afford to eat.

So it is actually cheaper to pay such low wages to employees than it would be to own the slave, since you have to house, feed, clothe and treat the slave for medical care. So today slavery would not be worth it, compared to merley treating the employee today worst than a slave

Answer 4

If you pay attention, especially in the New Testament, which if you are a Christian is what you're living under, God does not encourage slavery. Slaves are merely advised to be content with their state, all people are advised of this really. The point being that life is here is not worth it anyway. Salvation, what we should all be striving for, is truly the only way to achieve peace.

Slavery is also used to illustrate sin. For we are all enslaved to sin which is why we need salvation.

Fear not what man can do to you, rather fear what God might do to you.

Answer 5

If you read your bible all those scripture are in the bible TRUE, GOD does not endorse slavery, human dominance created man is why slavery was and is fact then and now which is con tolled by the devil, Satan, prince of the world, many names, GOD is all knowing before it is thought, action, results, understands,man through our tribulations, through the bible in the old and new testaments read very carefully to notice that man put man into slavery not GOD he allowed it to teach us one of many factors that he is in con troll and will bring all evil to a END.

Answer 6

Bible is just an ancient epic and we cannot consider it to be equivalent to our constitution or the law books we use today. If it were so, we would have sent all the legislators home and burned all the law books and would have had religious fundamentalists ruling the country. Watch out, there are some who may like to do that, if we let them do so.

Answer 7

The Bible was written by Men and was a way of enslaving masses. True or not, this is basically true nonetheless. While saying what God (supposedly) told them to say, why not add some little things here and there to make themselves look better?

Answer 8

Not sure. Though that seems to back up what I think the Bible is anyway. Just stories that were handed down by tribal people. Or, as one comedian put it, they had to do something to keep the Jews in line... they were going crazy! ^_^

Answer 9

God does not endorse slavery in the Bible anymore than He endorsed polygamy or divorce. He was patient with man. There is a spiritual evolution that God sees in man. He has been very patient with us.

Answer 10

perhaps for the same reason the bible preaches that women are subordinate to men and that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and otherwise queer people are wicked.

edit, to fr_chuck:
if the bible isn't a guide to running the government, why are christians so intent on, through law, keeping same-sex couples from marrying, denying women complete ownership of their own bodies, and representing just one religion in the pledge of allegiance?