"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
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2007-08-07 12:37:25 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Peter says that all slaves should “be subject to [their] masters with all fear,” to the bad and cruel as well as the “good and gentle.” This is merely an echo of the same slavery commands in the Old Testament. (1 Peter 2:18) --- Again showing that the law of the OT are still in effect.
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2007-08-07 12:41:04 · update #1
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ." (Ephesians 6:5, NIV).
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2007-08-07 12:43:09 · update #2
Slavery takes many forms.
Why do Hindus continue to practice slavery by subjecting many members of their own society to the humiliation and degradation of the caste system?
2007-08-07 12:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Funny, I've never ridiculed, scorned, or mocked TJ for having slaves because of my Christianity...
I think slavery's wrong personally but then again that's my opinion.
The bigger problem with Jefferson was that he kept his slaves because he was in debt, and thought that while slaves should be free, they were still inferior. Yet he treated his slaves well for the most part.. well except for the whole owning them thing. (that was sarcam people)
How about we start looking at how it's not cool to treat anyone like crud, based off of their race, religion, sex, etc.?
2007-08-07 13:20:14 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No hint of condemning it? It even supports it. Paul's letter to Philemon: "Slaves obey your masters."
This is a good example of how human society changes truths that were once upon a time absolute: nowadays slavery is immoral and heinous. Back then, it was the way the world was set up.
That's why we Christians can't read the bible like it was some magic book full of pixie dust that will erase the changes of time. We've got to read the bible with some of the common sense God gave us.
God might not change, but we humans sure do.
2007-08-07 12:43:20 · answer #3 · answered by Acorn 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why did a Christian, William Wilberforce, devote his life to the abolition of slavery in England?
Why did Abraham Lincoln, a Christian, hazard the Unity of the nation by outlawing slavery and fighting against the Confederacy in the Civil War?
2007-08-07 12:47:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not condemn slavery. Colossians 3:22 even states, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything."
The Catholic Church was one of the first groups to condemn slavery.
The condemnation of slavery is one of those nonbiblical doctrines that Catholics have developed through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit over the centuries.
+ In 1462, Pius II declared slavery to be "a great crime" (magnum scelus). Note that this was 30 years before Columbus "discovered" America.
+ In 1537, Paul III forbade the enslavement of the Indians
+ Urban VIII forbade it in 1639
+ Benedict XIV forbade it in 1741
+ Pius VII demanded of the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the suppression of the slave trade
+ Gregory XVI condemned it in 1839
+ In the Bull of Canonization of the Jesuit Peter Claver, one of the most illustrious adversaries of slavery, Pius IX branded the "supreme villainy" (summum nefas) of the slave traders.
+ Leo XIII, in 1888, addressed a letter to the Brazilian bishops, exhorting them to banish from their country the remnants of slavery -- a letter to which the bishops responded with their most energetic efforts, and some generous slave-owners by freeing their slaves in a body, as in the first ages of the Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14036a.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-08-08 17:55:38 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm the Ten Commandments were Old Testament law too. Those got abolished ?
2007-08-07 12:42:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God as tolerated a lot of things that mankind has done, but that doesn't mean he condones the actions of man. You think God felt it was OK for people to shoot buffalo from railroad cars just for sport? God gave mankind free will and even if God doesn't go along with what man does he deals with us on our own terms. Slavery was mankind's idea not God's. God said love thy neighbor like thy self does that sound like he supports slavery?
2007-08-07 12:57:19 · answer #7 · answered by Owl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because he edited his own private Bible, removing all miracles and creating a pale imitation of the real God. Besides, HE's the one who said slaves should be freed, but not his own. Hypocrite!
2007-08-07 12:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What planet are you from? Having someone do your work for no compensation is totally unethical. The Bible saying it is not wrong doesn't make it right.
Maybe they should've made an 11th commandment. Thou shall not have slaves.
2007-08-07 12:42:12 · answer #9 · answered by Dan Bueno 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No man, should be a slave and the were not slaves, they were stolen from their homes in Africa by an evil force.
2007-08-07 12:44:24 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it has more to do with morality than anything else because human beings Black or Otherwise were created in God's image therefore You should treat them with respect and don't forget he had sexual 'relations' with his slaves
2007-08-07 12:53:39 · answer #11 · answered by OMOTAYO.A. A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋