[Pelham]

” And in case you haven’t noticed bird brain, the Confederacy is long gone. They lost remember?”

Those with the biggest battalions declare themselves virtuous.

“Slavery was Americas original sin. The Confederacy was an evil institution that engaged in violent rebellion to secede from the Union and started a war to preserve it.”

That’s certainly the position of BLM and the hard Left who want to eradicate the memory of Washington, Jefferson and every other slaveholding President once they get done with Confederate history.

““Slave’’ was more often a term in the Biblical term of a person who worked for another. “

You evidently aren’t a student of koine Greek.

“Although it is a main theme, Paul does not label slavery as negative or positive. Some scholars see it as unthinkable in the times to even question ending slavery. Because slavery was so ingrained into society that the “abolitionist would have been at the same time an insurrectionist, and the political effects of such a movement would have been unthinkable. Paul doesn’t question it in this epistle. Paul may have envisioned slavery as a fixed institution. He was not questioning the “rightness or wrongness” of it. Paul did however view slavery as a human institution, and believed that all human institutions were about to fade away. This may be because Paul had the perspective that Jesus would return soon. Paul viewed his present world as something that was swiftly passing away. This is a part of Pauline Christianity and theology.”

[jmacusa]

You don't listen very well, do you? You believe everything you hear and understand nothing. You listen to voices, particularly your own. No wonder you get lambasted up and down here.

[BroJoeK]

Pelham quoting: "Although it is a main theme, Paul does not label slavery as negative or positive."

Topic: slavery in the Bible, does God tolerate or condemn slavery?

Answer: both, depending on circumstances.
But first we have to unpack the word "slave" because it meant many different conditions.

1. The most common form in Biblical times was apparently debt bondage, aka indentured service.
   At its best indentured service is simply a contract to pay off a debt.
   The Bible requires that such "slaves" be treated justly and honorably.

2. Chattel slavery is very different and the Bible forbids the holding of God's people in such slavery.

Indeed, in a sense the Bible itself is one great anti-slavery document,
from Exodus:

21:16 "He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death."

to Deuteronomy:

15:14 on freeing your slaves: "Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.
15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you.
That is why I give you this command today"

to Jeremiah:

34:8-9 " This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them:
9 that every man should set free his male and female slave — a Hebrew man or woman — that no one should keep a Jewish brother in bondage.."

to John:

8:34 "Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin'

The Bible is all about freeing God's people from slavery to any "master" but God.