• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    If we’re talking OT, even Leviticus says to treat foreigners as neighbors in 19:34. If we’re keeping it NT, I don’t recall Jesus advocating genocide or slavery.

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      21 days ago

      Jesus said heaven and earth would pass away before one letter was removed from the old law. But also maybe whoever wrote leviticus should pick a lane:

      Chapter 25

      44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

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      22 days ago

      The New Testament absolutely says that it’s ok to keep slaves and provides guidelines for how matters should treat their slaves and how slave should behave. This is mostly within the context of Roman society at the time.

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        22 days ago

        Pretty sure the stuff you’re thinking about is yet another awful thing that Paul said.

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        22 days ago

        And Roman slavery at the time was much more like indentured servitude than what we generally refer to when we talk about “slavery”. Though you’re gonna have to cite chapter and verse for saying it’s okay, I don’t recall anything like that.