What would you like God to say?
“Slaves, disobey your masters. Run away. Attack and destroy them.”
That’s an instant death sentence.
YES!!
After all, death is the only way to eternal life...
Being a slave is hell on earth.
Obviously you condoned it as well.
With respect, I will not engage further. Have a great life. Be glad you were never a slave.
A slave in Israel was far better off than a free man anywhere else mostly.
If foreign bought he could convert, be freed within six years, get regular days off, and be free of abuse.
If a POW same and much better than dying in the battle.
I am anti-chattel slavery and am very glad I was never a slave. But scripture confines it narrowly and protects those caught in it. Were it to urge rebellion it would just endanger the very people that need the helping.
We were slaves in Egypt you know. Brutal slavery. God sets the captives free.
God is the One who sets us free. Historically and actually.
“ 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 14 - and quoting Isaiah
Preface to the Ten Commandments:
“I am the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.”