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To: GSD Lover

Does your biblical perspective allow for the keeping of human slaves?

Yes or no.


Focusing on the way you worded that, yes.

Ephesians 6:9
And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Colossians 4:1
Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

1 Timothy 6:2
Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.


142 posted on 04/28/2013 6:18:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

Your biblical worldview does not seem to distinguish between those things that were recorded in scripture due to the cultural situation of the day, and those things that God has proscribed for all time.

Personally, I don’t think that God has proscribed that we make slaves of other human beings or that we have absolute control over our children to the extent that we control their destiny.


151 posted on 04/28/2013 6:36:30 AM PDT by GSD Lover
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