What the Bible actually says about slavery! Part 1

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What the Bible actually says about slavery! Part 1

First post is about Hebrew slaves...

Exodus 21
““These are the laws you are to set before them: “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.”
‭‭Exodus‬ ‭21:1-8, 20-21, 26-27‬ ‭NIV‬‬
http://bible.com/111/exo.21.1-8,20-21,26-27.niv

As we read this "Direct law givin by god" what can we pull away from it?

1-god has no opposition to owning another human as property....

2-god allows you to enslave your fellow Hebrew for life if you give him a wife...

3- as a woman you are not free after serving 6 years

4- you are allowed to beat your slave for they are your property.

Under today's understanding of morality

Is god...

A) moral

B) immoral

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xenoview's picture
I think that the god of the
MCDennis's picture
Slaves, obey your masters
Sheldon's picture
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 14:27
MCDennis's picture
amen
Chica__2009's picture
Under today's understanding,
Sirkenstien's picture
I figure that masters and
Sheldon's picture
I encourage Breezy to allay
Sky Pilot's picture
As it says in Isaiah 14:1-2

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