"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, 21: but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.” ---- Exodus 21:20-21
Maybe enslaved men can handle a beating but fragile women would be in pain beyond imagination.
The point being made is not whether or not Christians are released from following the divine law….the point is that if JESUS is the One God of the NT & OT then he said this about WOMEN.
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2007-07-07 22:43:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If they awake from their near coma state within a day or two -- then their is no punishment on the slave owner.......
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2007-07-07 22:47:43 · update #1
Yep. Beating slaves is just the tip of the iceberg. Jesus-God did and said all kinds of nasty, evil stuff: drowned, tortured, and slaughtered millions, conspired to have his own self/kid beaten and executed, and repeatedly commanded his followers to kidnap, enslave, hurt, rape, forcibly abort, and kill thousands of other people. None of that stuff is 'good', 'moral', or 'loving'.
2007-07-07 22:47:36 · answer #1 · answered by gelfling 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That passage doesn't mention a loss of consciousness. It is probably referring to not being able to get up and move around because of being sore from a beating. Back in those days they had slavery and God accommodated this human institution by instituting rules that put some limits on the abuses that often accompanied this practice. It was never in God's perfect will for people to enslave other people, nor is it in God's will for humans to beat one another whether they be male or female.
But God is a perfect being dealing with imperfect creatures and his plan of redemption from the fall of mankind into sin is slowly unfolding over the centuries. He doesn't march us around like marionettes on strings and a lot of things that humans do to one another are not in his will. His law curbed some of the worst abuses and compared to surrounding peoples where a person could murder their slave (male or female) at a whim and suffer no penalty other than the loss of their property it was better to be the slave of a Hebrew than of a pagan.
2007-07-08 05:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It took me a while to figure this out but what the passage refers to as "punishment" in "[quote]but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.[/quote]",is that a master cannot be punished (punished here means "put to death" not "go to jail") if he beats up his slave because if the master is executed, there will be no caretaker for his land, slaves, and property. Where will the workers go if the master is dead? There will be chaos if the owner/master of the property dies, thus, you must keep the master alive while the slaves still are alive.
2007-07-08 05:58:31 · answer #3 · answered by 0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These were laws of the political community of the Israelites and not the diviine laws from THE LORD GOD as a distinction.
2007-07-08 05:48:47 · answer #4 · answered by Prophet John of the Omega 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dont you know this is all symbolic now we live in more civilized times!!!I wonderhow many believers have believed the literal truth of the bible over 2000 years.In fact there are a few retards out there who still do.
2007-07-08 05:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it dose say that. Spare the rod spoil the child. Yep, men are aloud to go beating people.
2007-07-08 05:50:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tell them? It even had illustrations!
2007-07-08 05:47:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋