why did god never condemn slavery? and endorsed it by creating rules to support it

Why don’t you just say that you Don’t have a answer?

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ummm what.....didnt he send himself/his son to die cause he so loved us?

Owning people & their children as property is no big deal to you?

I'm not a Christian but that is BASED.

All of Human history (and life itself, really) is nothing but death and suffering. Why is slavery considered so much worse than all the other evils in the world?

The Lord is the Lord !

which means nothing and is not en explanation

"The mundane rules like not eating shellfish were from the Old Testament days. Think of it as a younger, less experienced God still seeing what he can do. The New Testament doesn’t have rules like that.
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|which makes no sense. god isnt in time. god knows everything, every action and all things. this is utter nonsense and shows the contradiction of Christianity

"As for slavery, it would be more accurate to call them servants, and God said that they should not be abused, but treated well. Stuff like that was legal and normal back then."

NOPE they were slaves. human chattel you had permission to beat, as long as they didnt die within 2 days. then you got a fine! you owned them and passed them down as property to your kids

"Slavery as we know it, such as what the Jews endured under the Egyptians, was condemned, and there’s a whole arc called Exodus about freeing them so that they could start a new and better life elsewhere."

There were no mass jewish slaves in Egypt. there may have not even been a single one. the whole story was made-up.

AND? yes religious texts of all sorts are full of "that thing is bad when it happens to our people. but god orders us to do it to others".

"You have misunderstood the Apostle Paul's writings and what was written in the jewish law in the old testament."

Paul condones slavery implicitly by not condemning it. Paul condemns and calls out a litany of "sins" but slavery is never one of them.

"The law in the old testament was not like the slavery that existed in America. It specifically states that if someone owes someone else money and can't pay it, they are to become a slave for a period of time to work off the debt. That was how it was."

I've heard this Christian Reconstructionist (CR) apologetic before. The trouble is that it attempts to justify the immoral act of owning people as property (slavery). Owning people as property is immoral. Period. Treating people as mere property is wrong. When you accept the premise that it’s ok to own people as property, that allows immoral rules about that ownership, such as slaves are allowed to be beaten as long as they don’t die within a couple of days (Exodus 21:20-21) and that they may be passed down as a inheritance to future generations (Lev. 25:46), etc.

The CR view attempts to intellectualize the brutality in order to justify slavery but to no avail. You don't need to be smart to understand Biblical slavery, it just takes empathy to condemn it.

"As far as I am concerned, God does not condone slavery. It's a thing that exists because of Adam and Eve sinning in the Garden of Edon."

Whenever the story of Adam and Eve is invoked it's hard for me to keep a straight face. The thought of a naked couple and a talking snake being used to explain, justify, rationalize anything in the real world leaves me speechless.

Paul isnt the only writer on slavery, im not basing it off his alone. Also Paul never criticized slavery. nor did god anywhere in the Old Testament. Also Paul isnt Jesus, who never condemned it. also Paul said

"Slaves, you must obey your earthly masters. Show them great respect and be as loyal to them "

"The law in the old testament was not like the slavery that existed in America. It specifically states that if someone owes someone else money and can't pay it, they are to become a slave for a period of time to work off the debt. That was how it was."

wow another christen who doesnt know his own bible! this wasnt the only slavery in the Old Testament. jews were ordered to "seek slaves from the heathens around you". and ordered by god to in war "slaughter the men and boy, and take the girls who advent known a man"


"" He wasn't a ruler of a country who could make slavery against the law. In fact, he was in prison durring the time he wrote those letters that make up a majority of the New Testament."

which means??? nothing? the point isnt that these humans have to be in positions of power to change a thing. they are writing on what god wants.that argument makes zero sense

"As far as I am concerned, God does not condone slavery. It's a thing that exists because of Adam and Eve sinning in the Garden of Edon. Of course most people on here don't believe in God and are vehemently against anyone who does."


except he does. he never outlawed it. and in fact, according to the bible, prescribed rules on how to do it. yess we are against people who make massive claims without evidence. which you did this entire post

people dont appreciate when others say "yaaa I have no evidence, but I now a god exists and I know what he wants and his rules and you need to live by them"


or in this case, defend the indefensible and claim the bible doesnt say what it says it does by talking about Paul who doesnt support you! then ignoring all the other parts against you. disingenuousness and lying isnt a trait people like, and Christians do it a lot

and how did clothes of more than one material.

your shellfish argument is total BS. humans had other allergies too. if god told them not to eat every food humans had allergies to, the list of food would be almost nothing, and humans would have died out.

No it is a wrong thing. just the people who wrote the bible accepted it and condoned it so they didnt criticize it.

also so was military conquest and taking your enemies virgin girls while slaughtering the men. I guess thats okay? which god commanded