provided they are purchased from neighboring nations.
25:44 You can [also] have [other] male or female slaves. These are the male and female slaves that you buy from the nations around you.
25:45 You can also buy [such slaves] from the resident aliens who live among you, and from their families that are born in your land.
[All these] shall become hereditary property.
25:46 They are hereditary property that you shall pass down to your children, and you shall thus have them serve you forever.
However, where your fellow Israelites are concerned, you must not dominate one another to break one's spirit.
A minister friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2006-07-16 05:26:08 · 17 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is the old covenant. It does not apply to us in the new covenant.
2006-07-16 05:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by Tom C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take into context however the slavery of the historical biblical days of Moses.
the slaves were well fed, given housing and even earned a wage. the owners of the slaves loaned money to their slaves when they needed dowry, or other goods as they progressed in their relationship with the master.
lets take God out of the equation right quick, and explore the ownership of slaves. if you were to subjigate a people, you would not want to enslave your own race or members of your own village. therefore you take "others" as slaves.
with the Lord Jehova, the israelites were forbidden to take slaves from God's chosen people....themselves.
as society progressed, the ownership of slaves became a shameful practice where they were exploited, raped, killed and worked to the point of exhaustion and death.
as spoken, slavery as we have come to know it, is terrible, but we still practice it to some point. even though we pay them and do not beat or kill them, our gardners, lawn mowing agency and other domestic services are at our will as we terminate them if we are unhappy or just to darn picky.
-eagle
2006-07-16 05:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by eaglemyrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the Jewish Scripture we have had the Christian Scripture and the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem.
Paul said the Laws passed away meaning the laws the Moses wrote for the Jewish camp.
2006-07-16 05:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter what you believe that the Bible says. The United States outlawed slavery in all states during the 1860s. You can't live in America and own slaves.
2006-07-16 05:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That purely applies while you're the two a organic Jew and likewise a member of the rustic of historic Israel. additionally remember the a "slave" in those days is what we'd immediately call an worker. in case you genuinely examine the regulations approximately Biblical "slavery" you may comprehend those issues and could desire to end making a fool out of your self with the aid of asking such infantile questions.
2016-11-02 04:08:13 · answer #5 · answered by zubrzycki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because this is not biblical times, and your friend is not in israel, or jewish (as a guess) and if he did own slaves, he'd find that the biblical obligation towards the slave is actually closer to having an employee -- with benefits and time off etc. The talmud says "he who buys a slave buys a master."
2006-07-16 05:31:29 · answer #6 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leviticus says a lot of stuff that is wrong.
To wit, from Chapter 21:
16: And the LORD said to Moses,
17: "Say to Aaron, None of your descendants throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.
18: For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
19: or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
20: or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;
21: no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD's offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
22: He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,
23: but he shall not come near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the LORD who sanctify them."
24: So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.
2006-07-16 05:30:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Change your quesitons - your history shows these types of questions. Can't you think of anything else? Slavery was abolished in the 1800's - in case you never heard of the Emancipation Proclamation.
2006-07-16 05:30:43 · answer #8 · answered by Ambrosia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Canadians have the same skin color as you do. Mexicans, because of thier skin color, and according to the bible, are somehow, less human, than you are.
Hey it doesn't make any sense to me but that's the way it is.
2006-07-16 05:35:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canadians can be expensive to keep because they drink a lot of beer.
Or so I've heard.
2006-07-16 05:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because us canadians are so kickass that we would beat you to death with 2 arms and a leg tied behind our back. and since christinaity originated in a different country that slavery thing applies to you to you know
2006-07-16 05:29:33 · answer #11 · answered by yusiko y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋