I somehow skipped your post.
And the word slave is obviously a wrong translation and was actually servants.
And jesus might have spoken to women as women in the first century, but you dont evn know that Jesus said Women and Men are equal in the everlasting life.
You will not be a man, and women not female.
No sex difference, no marraige etc. How did you miss out on that?
Oh I forgot, you never read the Bible.
And the Fig Trees???
...Hypothetical....???
Oh I also forgot you are Hypothetical deluded.
And you know what?
Jesus was able to heal people with schitsophrenia, and if it was in the shape of daemons entering into swine from someone who was very sick his whole life, I say, you go Jesus!
Funny how you even have the audacity to critisize a nice act like this with your haters and sour opinion due to your bias against Jesus.
Now, what are you saying?
Because Jesus healed the sick, and raised the dead, you dont want to accept that it can be done here on Earth by us humans!
Therefore you will deny Jesus' miracles, because it is un natural for a man to do it.
When I say, but Jesus was God, you deny that also, because a man can not rise people from the dead and heal their schitsophrenia with cursing a daemon?
Sounds like circular reasing at best to suit your opinion.
In your reasoning, Jesus be damned if He did, and Damned if he didnot.
Nice going pal.
"You are saved if you believe in Me, but already damned if you deny Me!"
As to the slavery issue...slavery is the correct term to describe the condition whereby someone can purchase another human being and have them as personal property to be passed down to his heirs, which was the case in the Bible.
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
So, if the slave lives for at least a day or two before he dies from the beating, no punishment of the owner is required because the slave is the owners
PROPERTY.
Exodus 21:1-36 ESV /
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...
Special dispensation for a Hebrew slave only. But even then, the owner can keep his wife and children. Does this sound like a servant???
Deuteronomy 15:16-17 ESV /
But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door,
and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.
Deuteronomy 20:14 ESV /
But the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil,
you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.
Leviticus 25:45[edit]
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you,
of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and
they shall be your possession.
Leviticus 25:46[edit]
And
ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession;
they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus 25:44[edit]
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
There is never a justification for owning another human being as property. And to try and justify or minimize such acts in the Bible is to abandon the moral high ground.
Demons do not cause schizophrenia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not actually believe Jesus healed the sick anymore than I believe present day "faith healers" heal the sick.
My reasoning is not circular. The purpose was to point out that the writers of the Bible story didn't even know the cause of mental illness and attributed it to demon possession. How is that circular?
Yes, you can assert that Jesus was god and rose from the dead and turned water into wine, etc. But you have no credible evidence to support those assertions.
We can heal the sick...with modern medicine. We cannot heal the sick by praying or other such woo. We cannot raise the dead, period.
Once all brain activity ceases, there is no coming back.
I was not addressing sexual equality in some supposed afterlife. I was addressing the fact that women in ancient Israel were treated like property and had fewer rights and less personal freedom than men. Stop trying to redirect.
I don't hate Jesus. I don't even know if he existed.