Do you agree with everything in the bible?

Question

How about slavery? The bible has about 20 statements supporting slavery and not a single explicit statement against slavery?

Answer 1

In it's proper context, yes.
The bible does not promote slavery today.

Your question is as silly as Chippyboy's statements above. Like a monkey playing with a toy; he can't see that he's out of context in his application. The things that he is referring to WERE of the Levitical laws of God, under that system, at that time. But Chippy either can't, or chooses not, to understand this.

Answer 2

Slavery was a way of life until modern history. To be a slave meant to have a job. Most of the white Europeans who came to the new world were slaves or indebted servants. Unfortunately when most people hear the word slavery they think of "Roots" and "Gone With The Wind". That is Hollywood, not the real thing. Slavery was a far different thing to what most believe today.

Answer 3

I graduated languages and literatures at University in an European country . I had two American teachers and I am very proud of it..

I wanted to make a master in theology but my views doesn't correspond to theologist view, so I will probably fail the exam.
But my view correspond to the original ortodox Bible from 1688.

Well slavery was a different thing in Bible.actualy it wasn't slavery...When At the begining..Noah or who?said that the x shall be the slave of y(his sons, nephews-inside family)because x saw him naked and shouldn't look at him naked and drunk.So that''slavery''was a kind of graduating the university of the morality of God..

There is an explanation for the other slaves...

Only the Israel people was ''slave''in the real meaning in Egypt, and they became, it wasn't so at the begining..

Answer 4

You have to understand the culture that was being spoken to. Yes, there were slaves, but not the beat-them-when-you-want kind of slavery. There were rules that they had to follow, and every seven years, slaves were freed in the year of Jubilee. In the New Testament, again, slavery was a cultural occurrence. While God doesn't agree with it, He had other concerns that e felt were more important than trying to uproot that practice. Again, not everything recorded in the Bible is supported by it.

Answer 5

I do agree with all of the biblical doctrines and historical accounts.

You have misinterpreted the biblical doctrines regarding slavery. While these practices occured, a careful study of the bible will reveal that God in no way supported them.

The bible is full of disagreeable actions, yet the inspired authors did not make any attempt to whitewash bad human behaviors. In the bible, you see fallen humanity at its worst and God at His best.

The biblical commandments spoken of by Christ clearly obviate your statement that the bible contains no prohibitions against slavery.

Answer 6

That is an interesting observation, since most of the abolitionists were devout Christians, who believed that the New Testament taught against slavery.

In the ancient Roman empire, the Christians were the first people to treat slaves as equals, since the apostle Paul seemed to argue that slaves were just a valuable in the eyes of God as anyone else, and James and Jesus said that God did not respect the rich any more than the poor (In fact James said that it was a sin to treat the poor worse simply because they were poor).

Moses was one of the first ancient writers to suggest that slaves actually have rights. True, he didn't abolish the practice outright, but he put limits on what a salve master could do to his slave

Different people argued for centuries over whether the Bible was for or against slavery.

You seem ignorant of history, as well as the Bible.

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...Christian denominations, such as the Methodists and Christian organizations were prominent in the movement for Abolition, although others used biblical writings to promote and justify the institution.

Within Christianity itself, slaves attained positions unavailable in the pagan society. Slaves were excluded from no sacrament because of their servile condition; however, slaves who fled from their masters were, at some times and places in history, condemned with anathema and refused eucharistic communion. Slave burials are never included any indication that the one buried had been a slave. Christianity recognized marriage of sorts among slaves. Freeing slaves was regarded as an act of charity....

Answer 7

Christians agree that every thing in the bible is true. Not that everything everyone did was right. I believe the American history book is true. I agree there was slavery in America but I don’t believe we should have slavery

Answer 8

To see the anger, hatred against Judeo-Christianity is amazing. It is so sad that people who desire to be accepted by everyone refuses to accept the faith of Judeo-Christianity.

Anyway, - slavery was normal experience for ancient times. Even in our own country slavery was acceptable. There are various opinions on this; but it was a Christian movement prior and during the Civil War that caught momentum and became one of the platforms of Abraham Lincoln for his second term to abolish slavery in the US.

Slavery is still active in the human experience still today. But let's get to the bottom line:

God never in the Bible "endorses" slavery; it only acknowledges man's desire to own slaves. God's Word is the story of His love, compassion and desire for man to live in peace with other's. It is man who "CHOOSES" not to live in peace with others. Mankind has "freewill"; we are our own independent people. YOU CHOOSE how you live; God only provides for you a better way to live if you follow His commands, precepts and ways. Slavery is not part of His commands, precepts, or ways.

Answer 9

i have always beleived that slavery is ordained of God. but several of those slavery verses are conscirpted servants.

as for everything in the bible. I believed everything i read Until i was taught the controversial things. I believed everything unti two different churches went to the same verse and interpreted completely opposite things.

rread some of my archived questions, i cant remember them all.
in fact just in the few questions i asked, i found 3 different answers t omany questions.

Answer 10

The silly book was written how long ago??? 3-5 AD
And then, the OT has some wild fairytails.
Can't you take a joke?
PS: Most slaves were well provided for, but it is easier to point out the evil. Remember the law at the time.
If it was still legal I would have a household staff, if I could afford it. what difference from adopting a family.