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NASB | Leviticus 25:44 'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 25:44 'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. |
Subject: Does God approve of slavery? |
Bible Note: Was it Pugnacity or something else? Beja in trying to expand the scope of the discussion cited some verses he felt would do just that. I on the other hand view anything that remotely suggests God views slaves as nothing more than chattel property as a contradiction of scripture. I believe the truth of scripture must always be defended. Using Beja examples I tried to demonstrate how that contradiction may have occurred. I cited the fact that many words used by the translators can and sometimes do suggest things that were never intended in the original language. How we must understand how our mindset plays into this, that when we are trying to establish something we sometimes focus on a word used in a translation of scripture which with our mindset seems to suggest something that the whole of scripture contradicts. This is a very common mistake, often exacerbated by the incorrect usage of Concordances as Original Language Dictionaries and Lexicons. My parting comments in the last paragraph was an attempt to say when we consider all of scripture we see God goes out of His way to insure man under God’s laws never commits the repugnant acts often associated with Chattel slavery. Things like the separation of the young (animal or humans) from parents. God’s law demands humane treatment of both humans and animals, forbidding man or animal from being worked to death or made to suffer. God’s law even forbids the withholding of food or water from slaves, demanding they be given food and water in accordance with their work. So yes I do take any suggestion that God promotes Chattel slavery as offensive to the truth found in scripture and to my sensibilities. Now if I did this in a less than Christian way I do apologize. |