Biblical Slavery - How Could A Loving God Condone It?

[Subduction Zone]

Actually, contemporary research shows that individuals with ASD have cognitive processing styles which hamper human spirituality while the Neurotypical have all inherited a variety of biological predispositions for spirituality. Disqus - Square Pegs, Round Holes


Have you ever been assessed for ASD? ([Self-Test] Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Adults)

Sorry, that does not excuse your from cognitive dissonance.

Actually, contemporary research shows that individuals with ASD have cognitive processing styles which hamper human spirituality while the Neurotypical have all inherited a variety of biological predispositions for spirituality. Disqus - Square Pegs, Round Holes


Have you ever been assessed for ASD? ([Self-Test] Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Adults)

That does not really support your claim. It at best supports a claim that a religious belief is part of our make up due to evolutionary reasons. It does not defend "spirituality" if anything it shows how we have the tendency to believe hard wired into us. Realizing this allows us to work around the negative aspects of that tendency.

 

[Subduction Zone]

And I still have not seen one defense for the children of slaves being slaves. In fact the Bible tells how to trick a fellow Hebrew into being a slave for life and not the seven year period of indentured servitude that was the normal contract.

 

[Maximilian]

I knew that Scotsman would come in handy!

With the code of conduct he supplied his loyal ones, Christ drew a bright line and then announced that absolutely everyone on the other side is not a Christian.

So wholly devoted to this code would these be that all non-Christian world-views/conduct would be effortlessly recognized. (Malachi 3:18 cf. Titus 1:16)

These preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.

Meaning that, just as we are able to distinguish genuine legal tender apart from Monopoly money, any sincere person can make a distinction between a Christian and an Anti-Christian (Satanist).

You aren’t the arbiter of who’s a Christian or not. So if those of any Christian sect are sedulous disciples of Christ then Muhammad was Jewish . . .

 

[Maximilian]

The Dutch and English were't Catholic.

Then that was Protestantism, an evil perversion, not Christianity. Try again.

 

[Maximilian]

And I still have not seen one defense for the children of slaves being slaves. In fact the Bible tells how to trick a fellow Hebrew into being a slave for life and not the seven year period of indentured servitude that was the normal contract.

It was voluntary. No one was tricked into doing anything. Try again.

 

[Maximilian]

I wouldn't paint it with such a large brush but there are countries where some things are still legal and accepted that was done away with hundreds of years ago in other countries.

???

 

[Maximilian]

The Hebrews didn't consider Gentiles to be their neighbors. You could kidnap and enslave them.. Look at the Vikings and the Khazars, both were big time slavers.

The Vikings and the Khazars were ancient Israelites? Seriously?

 

[sooda]

Then that was Protestantism, an evil perversion, not Christianity. Try again.

Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

 

[sooda]

The Vikings and the Khazars were ancient Israelites? Seriously?

You must be having trouble reading. I said Vikings and Khazars were big time slavers.

 

[Maximilian]

Cherry picking again.

Prove it.

 

[Maximilian]

Are you a Jehovah's Witness?

I worship the God of Christ Jesus, Jehovah, yes, absolutely

 

[Maximilian]

It is an error in categorization.

Where's your proof?

 

[sooda]

I worship the God of Christ Jesus, Jehovah, yes, absolutely

I see..

 

[Maximilian]

there are even clear contradictions to that.

Where's your evidence?

 

[Maximilian]

Jews still owned Jewish slaves in the Talmudic era because Talmudic authorities tried to denounce the practice that Jews could sell themselves into slavery if they were poverty-stricken. In particular, the Talmud said that Jews should not sell themselves to non-Jews.

The Israelites and Jews had slaves throughout the biblical period, as various passages of the Bible attest. Exodus 12:44 talks of the purchase of slaves and the need for them to be circumcised, which implies that these were non-Hebrew slaves.

As the question implies, it seems anachronistic that the fleeing slaves would have had slaves at the start of the Exodus or even at any time during the forty years of wandering, but Exodus 12:44-45 does not necessarily mean that the fleeing Israelites actually had slaves at this stage -- it can be read as a teaching or instruction for when the Israelites would soon have slaves.

And carrying away any individual against their will was kidnapping which was strictly proscribed in ancient Israel under pain of death.

The only reasons why anyone would offer to be an Israelite's factotum in ancient times was to cure a debt or to stave off the impacts of intense poverty: Exodus 21:7; Leviticus 25; 2 Kings 4:1-7.

 

[Maximilian]

So you do have ASD?

 

[dybmh]

Islam is evil. Islam has to die.

I'm very sorry that you feel this way.

 

[dybmh]

Do you know ANY Muslims? They tend to be conservative, family orientd and hospitable.

And Sincere.

 

[Maximilian]

You must be having trouble reading. I said Vikings and Khazars were big time slavers.

You must have trouble expressing yourself. Your statement conflated these with ancient Israelite culture . . .

 

[sooda]

You must have trouble expressing yourself. Your statement conflated these with ancient Israelite culture . . .

I thought the issue was slavers like the Portuguese and Dutch etc...