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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
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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yeah, in fact i'm making car payments right now. But I'm not a slave to the bank.
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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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"Do you not FEAR me? Do you not TREMBLE before me?"
That is not a description of reverence. If it is, God needs a new editor.
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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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If it's permissible in a book that tells you what you are and are not allowed to do, then it's condoned. God, if he's the all powerful lord of everything the bible makes him out to be, would not permit something he did not approve of.
As for slavery in biblical times referring to selling yourself instead of being sold into slavery, you've forgotten the story of Joseph, who's brothers sold him into slavery. Clearly then, at least some times, slaves were sold by and to others.