[Kay Soze]

I am not a biblical scholar so I cannot presume the context these refer to.

But I don't know that we have moved well beyond this as Christians.

Islam has not advanced in any human or Godly endeavors nor has its practitioners.

[Kay Soze]

don't should read "do" .

I also am waiting for a current web link to an article written by a man of similar authority within the Christian circles advocating slavery.

just one.

Should not take more than a few minutes via google.

[Tribune7]

Christianity has always been anti-slavery.

Of course ending slavery was not the top priority of the early Christians, nor should it have been.