Someone on facebook is saying that Bible esppouses hate....like slavery....does the Bible say Slavery is ok?
It's OK to enslave liberals as long as you keep them in your basement.;-)
Seriously, in context, since slavery was a fact of life in antiquity, the Bible does address it. It is important to keep in mind that the Old Testament rules are for Jewish (or Hebrew) life in the periods addressed.
I think Exodus has something to say about that... you know: "let my people go", and all that Moses stuff.
The ignorance of today's culture defies belief.
Literally.
Merry Christmas.
The Bible considers involuntary slavery a capital crime. It allows for voluntary slavery, which was a means of economic survival before the modern welfare state began.
http://www.gotquestions.org/bible-slavery.html
“Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death” (Exodus 21:16)
The Bible neither condones nor condemns slavery in general. It was common in the world before the US Civil War. There are Old Testament codes for the fair and proper treatment of slaves, more to prevent mistreatment. There is a New Testament example of a Christian slave being admonished to obey rather than rebel. Enslavement of the Israelites was in some instances condemned.
People who look to the Bible for approval of slavery are mistaken. People who look there for condemnation are, too. It just was. It was a status, like citizen, sometimes viewed as punishment.
...does the Bible say Slavery is ok?
The Bible doesn't say slavery is ok. It simply acknowledges slavery and how one should treat slaves (with dignity). In the year of Jubilee (every seven years), people were commanded to release their slaves. If the slaves enjoyed working for a particular person, they could ask to stay and they would be servants for life.
Slavery was an evil necessity back during biblical times.
That slave owners may have appealed to the Bible in order to support the institution means nothing. Abolitionists appealed to the same Bible, so the case is at least ambiguous.
That's not the same kind of slavery as it is understood in the U.S., but in some respects many of the slaves of the pre-Civil War period may have thought of themselves that way. When I was in high school I worked for an old man who was born in the early 1900s, and he once told me that one of his earliest memories as a child was of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at his grandfather's farm with his extended family. Two people who often attended these gatherings was this elderly black couple who lived in a cabin on the property. He didn't know it at the time, but he found out later that these were his grandfather's last surviving slaves. They were "emancipated" after the Civil War but they were always treated well and never really thought their circumstances were very unpleasant at all ... so they continued to live and work on the farm even though they were "free." I suspect a lot of successful black Americans in the 21st century can trace their roots to families like this.
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Exodus 21:16 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Colossians 4:1 - Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:5 - Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Deuteronomy 23:15 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Exodus 21:20-21 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
Galatians 5:1 - Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Leviticus 25:44-46 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Exodus 21:1-36 - Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Titus 2:9-10 - [Exhort] servants to be obedient unto their own masters, [and] to please [them] well in all [things]; not answering again;
Colossians 3:22 - Servants, obey in all things [your] masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
1 Peter 2:18 - Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Timothy 1:10 - For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Revelation 13:16 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Luke 4:18 - 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,
1 Kings 9:20-21 - [And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of Israel,
Leviticus 25:39 - And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Exodus 21:26-27 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
Luke 12:47 - And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not [himself], neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].
Deuteronomy 24:7 - If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 23:15-16 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Exodus 22:3 - If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 21:1-6 - Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
1 Timothy 6:1-2 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.
Joel 3:8 - And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
Leviticus 25:42 - For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Leviticus 22:11 - But if the priest buy [any] soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.
Leviticus 19:20 - And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that [is] a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Leviticus 19:18 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
Exodus 21:7 - And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus 20:17 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Kings 4:1 - Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Leviticus 25:55 - For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
Exodus 23:12 - Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus 21:7-11 - And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Ephesians 6:5-6 - Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
The Bible does not concern itself with the ordering of civil government.