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The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves, economic roles of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. [ 1 ]
As Northerners decried slavery and called for its abolition, Southern political and religious leaders found an easy ally for their pro-slavery cause in the Bible and Christian history.
Bible Verses about Slavery - Scriptures on Slaves and Slavery to Sin. What are the references to slavery in the Bible? While the Bible does not specifically condemn the practice of slavery, it does give instructions on how slaves should be treated during those times.
Slavery in the Bible thus had a constructive purpose. Both the servant and the master benefitted. This is not the way slavery normally works. Usually, the master gets his work done at his slave’s expense. However, the purpose of slavery in Israel was to train men and women to become productive members of society.
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.
Out of the more than three quarters of a million words in the Bible, Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most slaveholders would have defined themselves as Christian—had two favorites...
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.
Never in the Bible does God promote slavery or the imprisonment of His people. The Bible promotes freedom not only in our physical lives but also in our spiritual lives. Many people try to condemn Christianity and claim it promotes slavery, but it doesn't.
Slavery was an accepted part of the world in which the biblical authors lived and wrote. It was a vital part of the empires in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman West. The Hebrew Bible condones slavery, contains laws regulating it, and even uses it as a metaphor to describe God’s relationship with Israel.
In summary, what I took away from the lecture is that there are multiple stories and many different perspectives on slavery in the Bible. From my perspective, people who use St. Paul’s writings to justify slavery, racism, and other forms of discrimination are misinterpreting the scriptures as I understand them.