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Faith 
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Message 46 of 76 (846718)
01-10-2019 9:13 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by ooh-child
01-10-2019 12:43 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
Sorry I meant economic necessity in the sense of having to become a slave to pay off a debt. That was the common reason in ancient Israel and it is not at all the same kind of "economic necessity" you are talking about. There was no violence involved in becoming a slave to pay off a debt they had no other way to pay, and Mosaic Law put term limits to their servitude. Not really comparable to the slavery in the American South. You may be right that they justified it on the basis of the Bible but there is really little actual comparison between the situations.
Slavery caused by military conquest could be called violent, but then the whole thing involving military conquest is violent.
And again this is really a different subject.
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Faith 
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Message 47 of 76 (846719)
01-10-2019 9:17 PM
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01-10-2019 1:34 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
Yes, apparently there was a lot of such misuse of the Bible to justify slavery in the South. But it WAS a misuse. For one thing in the South it wasn't just slavery it was racism which had no part in the circumstances in ancient Israel. For another difference, people were stolen to be slaves in the South, often sold into slavery by their own people, and for yet another the Mosaic Law required the release of the slave after a given period of time.
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Faith 
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Message 48 of 76 (846721)
01-10-2019 9:24 PM
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01-10-2019 12:03 PM


Your "facts" are not facts.

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Message 49 of 76 (846751)
01-11-2019 9:49 AM
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01-10-2019 9:24 PM


Faith writes:
Your "facts" are not facts.
I do not understand how this statement makes any sense.
Are you talking about these facts:
  1. Both holy books contain descriptions of violence.
  2. Both religions have minor groups that use the descriptions of violence in the books as support for their violent actions.
  3. Both religions have majority groups that denounce the use of the books as support for any/all violent actions.
Because you've been instrumental in showing how each one is specifically a true fact.
Again, the words you string together simply do not correspond to the objective reality around you. Please try again.

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Message 50 of 76 (846765)
01-11-2019 1:31 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by Faith
01-10-2019 9:13 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
And again this is really a different subject.
Why? Check the title of this thread. Slavery as described biblically certainly reads as violent in many cases. And Southerners used these passages to justify their cruelty.

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Faith 
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Message 51 of 76 (846769)
01-11-2019 2:04 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by ooh-child
01-11-2019 1:31 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
Slavery is not the subject but if you insist on it: just as with the actual violence we are discussing, the historical biblical context does not give justification for it now, and Paul's recommendation to a Christian slave owner to release his Christian slave sets this new tone, which was the basis for Christian abolition of slavery in our time.
However, Muslims continue enslaving people to this day, although I have no idea if there is justification in their "holy" books as there is for murdering Jews and Christians and polytheists. And any other "infidel" who rejects Allah. Perhaps they don't need to bother with such niceties as a command from Allah to make slaves of people.
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Message 52 of 76 (846771)
01-11-2019 2:10 PM
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01-11-2019 9:49 AM


You are SO confused, Or willfully obtuse. Your "facts" are not facts.

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Message 53 of 76 (846774)
01-11-2019 2:31 PM
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01-11-2019 2:10 PM


Faith writes:
You are SO confused, Or willfully obtuse. Your "facts" are not facts.
Can you explain why or how?
Every time you say something doesn't exist or is wrong, I show you that the actual event does exist, or is right.
It seems all you have is empty words.
And I have is the ability to show parts of reality that prove these "facts" to be entirely factual.
I don't understand how any reasonable person could possibly interpret them in any other way.
But, please, expand your response and describe just how it is you interpret facts as "not facts."

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Faith 
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Message 54 of 76 (846777)
01-11-2019 2:39 PM
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01-11-2019 2:31 PM


I explained it all at least three times. If that isn't enough for you that's your fault. It's quite clear. Your "facts" are not facts.

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ooh-child
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Message 55 of 76 (846782)
01-11-2019 3:09 PM
Reply to: Message 51 by Faith
01-11-2019 2:04 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
So, in your eyes, slavery isn't actually violent. Good to know. I guess when Jesus talked about beating disobedient slaves that wasn't violent?
Luke 12:47 That servant who knows his master's will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
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.

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ringo
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Message 56 of 76 (846830)
01-12-2019 11:30 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Faith
01-11-2019 2:04 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
Faith writes:
... Paul's recommendation to a Christian slave owner to release his Christian slave sets this new tone....
To release his Christian slaves? Why wouldn't the Golden Rule apply to all slaves?

And our geese will blot out the sun.

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Message 57 of 76 (846835)
01-12-2019 1:12 PM
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01-12-2019 11:30 AM


Re: Biblical slavery
As per the examples in Mosaic laws that gave completely different rules for Hebrew vs. Gentile slaves. Captives were permanent slaves, as I recall it.

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Faith 
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Message 58 of 76 (846836)
01-12-2019 1:51 PM
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01-12-2019 11:30 AM


Re: Biblical slavery
There was one slave involved, who was a Christian and with Paul at the time. Paul wrote to his owner, also a Christian whom he knew, to suggest that he set him free. It's there to be a model for whomever. They had both become Christians and Paul was a Christian leader.

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Faith 
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Message 59 of 76 (846837)
01-12-2019 1:52 PM
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01-12-2019 1:12 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
I think the slave and his owner may both have been Greek, but I'd have to check. Slavery existed universally in those days.

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Faith 
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Message 60 of 76 (846838)
01-12-2019 1:53 PM
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01-11-2019 3:09 PM


Re: Biblical slavery
You'd rather he shot him?

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