Why was GOD pro-slavery?

Question

(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.

And sexist!!

Answer 1

God wrote the bible its all his ideas. Its also without flaw and true down to the word.
God can be whatever he wants as it says in Job who are you to question God. Were you there at the founding of the world.
Sorry the reason our country is in such bad shape is that we have veered away from the founding christian principles. Slavery was one of those principles.
The "fundamentalist evangenicals" leave this point out because they are truely the pick and choose church masquerading as the truth.

Answer 2

I doubt that you really want to know, but I'll take a shot at it.

Of course God is sexist. Obviously God went out of his way to make two different sexes for a reason. People seem to overlook that.

As for slavery, it appears, based on some things that Jesus said in the NT, that some of these commands given by Moses were concessions to human weakness, as a few people have already noted. Concessions as in, if people are going to own slaves anyway, might as well give them a few commands about it so at least they treat their slaves better than they were treating them in the past. It is hard to reform a people completely over night. Even Abraham Lincoln looks racist by today’s standards, but in his day he was a reformer.

Also, it appears that God likes authority, hard work, and order, as long as authority is not abused. The Bible does not seem to endorse or condemn any particular form of government or societal order, as long as there is one that is basically fair, protects the weak from being exploited, and maintains order.

Answer 3

As someone else stated above, mankind is slow in following God. God gives man free will including crime, that doesn't mean He believes its okay.

Because of this God leads man slowly to where man can be holy as well. This process is called the Baptism into the Cloud:

http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/cloud.html

7th Baptism - Baptism into the Cloud

1 Cor 10: MKJV
1 ¶ And, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.
2 And all were baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Being baptized in the cloud means you follow God when ever or where ever He leads.

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There are times in the Old Testament when God asked the Israelites to do something and they refused, were reluctant and so on. At one point He led them to a mountain to make the entire nation into priests for the rest of the world but when they heard the thunder and the mountain shake they got scared and refused. Another time God sent them to take over the Promise Land and most of them were afraid, and so He made them wander the wilderness for 40 years till they all died, except the 2 who believed God and then all the children grew up and crossed over.

While some think God is all powerful He is not. He gave dominion of the world to Adam, and Adam gave it to satan. Now satan is the god of the world. And because God is Holy and good, He cannot just waltz in and take over, then He would be breaking the laws He himself created, and be breaking His word. God has stated that He has put His word even above His own name:

Numbers 23:19:
"God is not a man, that He should lie, neither the Son of man, that He should feel repentance or compunction (for what He has promised). Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good?"

Psalms 138:2:
"...for thou has magnified thy word above all thy name."

Therefore He tolerated slavery simlarly as some of founding Fathers in America knowing it would be dealt with later.

Answer 4

You are overlooking something, but it is quite common for people to do so.

People practiced slavery long before this covenant law. God worked with them to an extent based upon the condition and culture they had developed. Notice Mt. 19 in regards to divorce. Some things were concessions due to the hardness of their hearts. Seeing as they were practicing slavery, the law helped to insure slaves would be well treated, etc. In time, those led by God came to see the inherent evil in slavery, and abandoned it.

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Answer 5

Exodus 21:7-11 is a good example of an ancient Jewish Custom.
The Arabs had similar customs.

Answer 6

simply because the men that wrote the bible believed in slavery. The times of the bible slavery was how empires were made and slaves were the spoils of the wars that were constant because of RELIGION. We still have these kind of war but people are getting smarter and we have fewer and fewer holy wars. the Iraq war was oil and religion but when people get the real facts they will all condemn it.

Answer 7

This isn't God...This was Man.
MAN wrote the bible, man was a big egotistical pig back then.
It could be that the doury was meant as payemnt for the daughter, i could be wrong, some countries over there still do the doury for a daughters hand in marriage.
But God didn't write the bible.
Whch one are you reading anyway, the old or new testament?

Answer 8

God was not pro slavery and these are men's interpretations of the word of God and how the times were.

Answer 9

And similar christian "values" thinking was in the minds of our christian founding fathers at the constitutional convention when they wrote into our constitution that negroes were only 3/5 human.

Answer 10

Until fairly recently slavery was a fact of life almost everywhere, everywhere.

Probably the ancient Hebrews took it for granted, so the God they created also took it for granted.