God promotes Slavery?

Question

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
Don't say the O.T does not count:
“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV) Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by until the end of human existence itself. None other then Jesus said so.
Dumb founded Christians???????

these are words from God silly, I don't care if it was a law or not.

Answer 1

Slavery was a normal part of Mediterranean cultures in those days.

The bible was written by men of these ancient cultures. It's all they knew. By the way, this is one of the many indications that the bible was NOT divinely inspired.

Also, NOBODY practices the bible religiously. EVERYBODY practices the bible selectively. Christians and the sabbath is one good example.

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means." ~George Bernard Shaw

Answer 2

Do you even know the true meaning of slave? Slavery didn't HAVE to necessarily a bad thing. Paid or unpaid, we're all slaves to some extent. It might have just been a business, like Prostitution is now. The white people in the 1700s (and forward) are the ones who made slavery look bad by beating and lynching black people. They took it TOO far, and that's why we see slavery as pure EVIL! I believe adoption may be considered selling a human, right? But when u start beating and abusing a HUMAN BEING, then you change the whole perspective of things. Don't get it twisted. Slavery has changed from what it use to be.

Answer 3

Biblical slavery was not the same as slavery practised in the Western countries- Slaves under biblical law had rights, so much so that in the Talmud it states: "He who takes for himself slave, takes for himself a master" How so?
1) The master is required to clothe the slave. if the slaves clothes and the masters clothes need to be replaced- the slaves clothes are replaced first
2) The master is required to feed the slave, if there is only sufficient food for one person- the slave gets to eat, the master goes hungry
3) The master is required to teach the slave a trade- if he does not, the slave goes free
4) The master is required to look after the slave- if he so much as knocks a tooth out of the slave's mouth- the slave goes free
5) The slave is automatically considered to be a half-Jew and is protected by the law as a Jew- at the end of the period of slavery the slave has the right to automatically become a convert with the full rights of a free Jew.
6) All slaves are automatically freed in the shmitta year- meaning that no period of slavery is ever longer than 6 years- and that is only with slaves that become slaves right after the previous shmitta year finishes.
7) The master is required to make sure that the slave has the means for a livelihood at the end of the period of slavery.

The point of biblical slavery was based on the principles of rehabilitation and integration of people into society. People became slaves through three methods:
1) They were poverty stricken and sold either themselves or a member of their household into slavery to resolve their debts
2) They were criminals forced to serve as slaves as punishment
3) They were war captives and outside of society.

The laws of slavery worked to integrate them into society- the poverty stricken individual learnt skills and a means of earning a livelihood so they would not be in the same situation again, the criminal learnt an honest trade and became integrated into general society instead of being marginalised, the war captive learnt about the new society and how to function in it- before being made a full member of it. As such, it served an important social function- it was not the punitive "property" situation of Western slavery in the modern era, or of the Romans and other cultures of the time.

As for that verse- the only people that could be a permanent inheritance were the members of the 7 nations of Canaan - and only then if they refused the conversion option- but the Talmud limits this further- since we should have nothing to do with them, if an eved Kanaani (Cananite slave) refuses to convert, we are required to sell them as quickly as possible since they cannot be trusted not to deliberately do things that would cause us to sin.

Answer 4

Jesus said slaves obey your masters, and masters love your slaves. Yes, slavery is Biblical.

But the mistreatment of a slave was as serious an offense as any other - adultery, theft, murder - we're not talking about slaves being considered sub-human chattel as they were in the early days of the US.

You could even sell yourself into slavery for a certain period of time, say seven years, at which time you would be free and have the money you were bought with. No toes cut off, no chains, no whips.

Answer 5

Yes, that was one of the arguments used by the Southern States and also by the Puritan Slave Traders of Massachusetts.
It is one of those Great Christian Principles that the USA was founded upon.

Answer 6

back when the Bible was still being written, slaves were treated better. its the early Americans that made slavery a bad thing. The passages you wrote don't say anywhere that it's okay to beat and kill people over race. slavery back then was more of a practicality thing. they were the prisoners of war and made to work. American slavery put many people in bad situations. there is a lot of black poverty and i think we can trace it back to the American slavery.

Answer 7

not dumbfounded at all. exept that someone could be so silly as to try to make that work. that's not a law. obviously. it's a condition.
if you'll notice, with that condition, slavery eventually died out among the jewish people. completely.
don't be ridiculous in thinking that is a law. trying to find problems in the Bible only makes you look ridiculous. I'm sorry, but it does. which you have done to yourself right now.

Answer 8

And it was responsible for condoning slavery, of course.

"[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.

"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral." Rev. Alexander Campbell

"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina

"The hope of civilization itself hangs on the defeat of ***** suffrage." A statement by a prominent 19th-century southern Presbyterian pastor, cited by Rev. Jack Rogers, moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

"The doom of Ham has been branded on the form and features of his African descendants. The hand of fate has united his color and destiny. Man cannot separate what God hath joined." United States Senator James Henry Hammond.

Answer 9

No man invented god to deny science therefore man promotes slavery.

Answer 10

God controls every mans destiny. James 2 hold your tongue.