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May 16, 2008 · Why did God permit slavery? There are Old Testament laws and principles that don't have validity today, and there is a redemptive-historical flow in the Bible that accounts for why some things were both commanded and permitted earlier that aren't now.
Sep 7, 2020 · Why did God allow slavery to occur among His chosen people? What kind of was it, and what does that teach us about how He views modern-day slavery?
Dec 12, 2022 · As those who have been redeemed from the slavery of sin, followers of Jesus Christ should be the foremost champions of ending human slavery in the world today. The question arises, though, why does the Bible not speak out strongly against slavery?
Because of the socioeconomic situation of Old Testament Israel, God did allow slavery, but He allowed it for a simple purpose: to help the poor survive. A person could sell himself into slavery (akin to indentured servitude) in order to pay off debt or provide a basic subsistence.
• Slavery is God’s means of protecting and providing for an inferior race (suffering the “curse of Ham” in Gen. 9:25 or even the punishment of Cain in Gen. 4:12). • Abolition...
Why does the Bible allow slavery? At first glance this seems an irredeemable blemish to the goodness of the Bible’s message. Slavery is correctly recognized as one of the great evils of our nation’s history. To many, this provides a significant reason for rejecting what the Bible teaches.
Jun 25, 2024 · 5 Important Factors about God and Slavery. The topic of “slavery” in the Hebrew Bible is complicated by a number of factors. 1. We tend to assume that our social arrangements (while flawed) are better than others. To put it differently, we tend to think that the way we dehumanize others is less normative than exceptional.
