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Slavery in the Bible
Posted : 18 Apr, 2011 07:11 PM

Recently a friend of mine said that the Bible condones slavery. He referenced 2 different texts from the NT. The first was found in the book of Philemon in chapter 1 when Paul sent a runaway slave back to his owner. The second was Romans 1:1 �Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God.�



My question is this, what verses can I show him, to help him realize that the Bible does not condone slavery?

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Slavery in the Bible
Posted : 18 Apr, 2011 11:30 PM

Simply put, Slavery was socially acceptable at the time and did not carry the stereo types as it does today.

Christianity is about changing the hearts of people, not changing politics or society. When the hearts of people are changed one heart at a time then politics and society changes.

One has to remember at the time Christianity was a new religion and should of be registered with Rome at the time, however it was still considered a sect of Judaism which was registered. The last thing this new religion needed to be doing was to try to change government policy. People did not have the same freedoms we enjoy in America, which by the way..... It was Christians who stood up to slavery in America and ultimately got it abolished.

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Posted : 19 Apr, 2011 12:04 AM

WE should also keep in mind that our first account of slavery of a group of people record in the Biibke were the Israelites (Hebrews) who were enslaved by Pharaoh, which is the reason God sent Moses to Egypt to set them free.

And we will also find throughout the Old and New Testament how God tells those who had slaves how they should treat them, and how those were were slaves were to be toward their masters.

It isn't that God condone slavery it was a practice of the times, and they were protected by the laws of Moses when you read in Exodus chapter 20 and Leviticus 25.

The word slave in the New Testament is also meant as servant, as has been pointed out, that Paul referred to himself as a bondservant, and often uses the word slave/servant in his writings and I Corinthians chapter 7:20-22, as it pretains to a person being called to salvation.

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