RE: Does the Bible condone leprosy? No. But does the Bible condemn it? Again, no
I would not go that far in making this parallel.
Someone being stricken by leprosy is a tragic condition which he did not freely choose ( just an innocent person coming down with the flu or Covid-19 or cancer did not freely choose to have it ).
But one can FREELY choose NOT to enslave another person, or even buy a slave, or if one inherits such a slave, one can FREELY choose to set him free.
The two are simply not comparable.
Tyranny and slavery are pandemic throughout history. They qualify as descendants of original sin, the chief categories of which are pride (I am better than you) and covetousness (I want to take away what you have — in this case, freedom).
So I was treating tyranny and slavery as ubiquitous aspects of the human condition — not that they’re right. Like divorce, though, and warfare, they’re not right, but they’re everywhere present. Jesus, on divorce, said, “It was not so from the beginning; but because of the hardness of your hearts, Moses gave you a work-around.”
To transition to my analogy, let’s take Jesus’ words concerning the man born blind, and those who lost their lives when a tower fell on them. “Who sinned that this man was born blind? Were those on whom the tower fell more wicked than others? No. No one sinned. None of them were more wicked.” And He concluded that it rains on the just and the unjust alike, just as the sun shines on them alike. He is asserting that mishaps and disease are part of the human condition.
So no, I do not equate contraction of disease or accidental death with a voluntary choice to commit tyranny. But I do throw them into a broader category called the human condition as we find it existentially. My main point is that the Bible is not condoning these conditions but rather that the Bible is providing ways to move forward, and away from them.
Thanks for your response — and your ministry of correction is well refined.