Do you? Let's go through what you've said here:
- people who own slaves "aren't listening to the Spirit" because they're violating the Golden Rule.
- Paul didn't tell Christian slave owners to free their slaves because they wouldn't listen to him (even though he also told them not to mistreat their slaves).
- owning a slave is expensive, so you can't just free a slave because the owner deserves to recoup his investment.
- some people like being slaves.
- some people willingly enter slavery (which somehow makes it okay, apparently).
Why is it every time I get into a discussion with a Bible-believer about slavery, we always end up with the believer telling me how other idea of owning another person as property is all right as long as it's done in just the right way?
Tell you what: just so we all know exactly where each of us is coming from, how about we both answer a simple, direct question:
What is your opinion of slavery?
- always wrong
- always okay
- sometimes wrong and sometimes okay
My answer is "always wrong". What's yours? I don't want to assume.
In a perfect world slavery is always wrong.