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To: RegulatorCountry
You continue to read meaning that is not there, into my replies and I assume the Bible itself, but reading the Bible would highlight the errors in your assumptions. Enslaving God’s chosen people was condemned. Extending that to all humanity goes against passages elsewhere in the Bible, therefore it is a mistake to do so.

Exd 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.

This describes plantation slavery to a tee. Tyre and Sidon destroyed for it, the south lost a war for it. It is wrong, as Jesus said, love your neighbor as yourself, and a fellow Christian is a neighbor. If the Good Samaritan was a neighbor, then fellow Christians are neighbors and are not to be slaves.

67 posted on 12/25/2013 5:34:12 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
You'll obviously continue to believe what you want to believe, cherry-picking passages that you believe to agree and ignoring those that don't. What I have told you here is a reasonable understanding of what has been written without resorting to making any part of the Bible “wrong.” The understanding upon which you're insisting does, therefore it is not a correct understanding. There were worse fates than being taken into bondage in antiquity, it was more humane than wholesale slaughter. Understand this, and begin to understand what you're resisting, here.
68 posted on 12/25/2013 5:42:22 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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