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Originally Posted by shakran
So as long as you owe me money it's OK for me to enslave you? I think you'll find yourself in the global minority with this outlook.
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It's not all right for me to go out and actively enslave you if you owe me money (No one has ever said that), but you if you want to willingly indebt yourself to me then go right ahead. It happens quite a lot in our common day society, you know.
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Yep, that's just what god should be condoning - slaves that are afraid of their masters.
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In the Bible the word fear is used to denote reverence (Especially toward God). It doesn't mean that one is to be literally afraid of someone (Or something) else.
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But remember, he's a just god who loves you. Slavery in any form, for any reason, is unacceptable. Arguing otherwise does not help your position regarding the bible.
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Slavery in any form, for any reason, is unacceptable and arguing otherwise doesn't help my position on the Bible? Per chance, have you ever read it? The Bible doesn't condone slavery as a whole, but there are certain parameters under which it's permissable and which it isn't.
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Let's not forget that many Africans sold their relatives to the US in order to pay off debts.
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Biblical slavery involved selling yourself to another, not selling someone else to another. There's a fundamental difference between the two.
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According to your biblical argument, that means slavery was OK, except that you seem to have only one other problem with it - that being the racial differences between the slaves and masters.
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No, because:
1.) People were sold into slavery against their will. There's a difference between indebting yourself to another and selling someone else into slavery.
2.) Present slavery is/was based largely off race whereas, in Biblical times, accepted slavery was based off of economic status.
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Are you trying to tell me US slavery would have been OK if we had only raided a poor white country for slaves?
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Nope, and for the reasons stated above.