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May 16, 2008 · In the context of a theocracy that was legitimate and right for God to do, even though the people themselves may have been sinful in the execution. And it was similar with things like slavery, God saying, in essence, "You're my people. Those people I have a right to judge. You may own them," and so on. Now here comes Jesus, and he undoes much ...
And, when they found themselves as slaves, why did God take so long to rescue them out of slavery? Through it all, God was preparing his people to have a particular identity. “God was preparing his people to have a particular identity.”. Yes, he could have chosen a nation that was already existing. And he could have kept them planted in the ...
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Evangelicals routinely answer that the slavery in the Bible was much different — and more humane — than the chattel slavery practiced in America (and much of the Western Hemisphere) from the 1500s to the 1800s. Of course, we generally know more about the practice of slavery the farther forward you proceed in time. It is a bit artificial to compare ...
Even a cursory study suggests that enslaved people during both eras, who were typically slaves for life, suffered routine and sometimes unspeakable abuse from captors, owners, and (in the case of enslaved prostitutes) clients. Of course, in either era it was possible that an individual slave might have a “good” master who was less personally abusiv...
One stark difference between ancient and early modern slavery was the role of race. Romans took many slaves from among people they conquered, such as the Thracian soldier, gladiator, and future rebel Spartacus. Slavery was a deeply class-based system in Rome, as poor people often sold their children into slavery out of desperation. But “race” in th...
So I don’t think the explanation of the New Testament’s silence based on ancient slavery’s relative moderation is persuasive. The lack of comment of Scripture on the evil of slavery itself may not become fully explicable to us in this life. It is hardly a cop-out to remind ourselves of the Lord’s caution to his people in Isaiah 55:8: “My thoughts a...
The Bible may not give us that elusive eleventh commandment, but given the bent of the Bible’s ethical codes, it is hardly surprising that one of the first writers — and perhaps the first writer — ever to challenge slavery as an institution was not a pagan Greek or Roman, but a Christian church father, Gregory of Nyssa. Gregory, born around the sam...
Mar 12, 2024 · According to this reading of Genesis, God had not only mandated slavery, he had also predestined black people as a “slave race”. In fact, some Christian leaders argued that it was in the ...
• Just as women are called to play a subordinate role (Eph. 5:22; 1 Tim. 2:11–15), so slaves are stationed by God in their place. • Slavery is God’s means of protecting and providing for ...
Mar 18, 2018 · Unbelief is a matter of the heart and God must give a person a soft heart for him to repent and believe (Ezek. 36:26). He must open deaf ears and blind eyes (Matt. 13:14-16; Luke 10:21-22) and impart spiritual life to those who are dead in their sins (Eph. 2:1-7). Delivering people from bondage to sin is God’s work, dependent on His power ...
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God Hears Israel's Groaning - During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. The Burning Bush - Now Moses was ...
