What's on your mind?
- By RileyG
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Thank you! I appreciate itHey there. I hope your birthday went great and you're having a nice weekend.
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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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God is the source of human rights, not government
- By Hentenza
- General Politics
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You are quick to accuse the OT of promoting the same racial type slavery that we’ve had in recent times but very slow to post the laws requiring proper care of slaves and the release of slaves after a certain time, usually six years for Jew slaves. But, as you said, your mind is made up to “your” interpretation.That verse refers to kidnapping and trafficing.
I've heard the water it down argument before.
God's primary concern is with sould not bodies.
SLAVE, SLAVERY (עֶ֫בֶד֒, H6269, δοῦλος, slave, servant). The ownership of one man by another man so that the former was viewed in most respects as property rather than as a person. It was a deeply rooted part of the economy and social structure of the ancient Near E and of the Graeco-Rom. world.
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I. Slavery in the OT
Slavery was a widespread practice in the ancient E during OT times. However, the number of slaves in Israel prob. did not run as high as in classical times. In Israel it was cheaper to hire laborers for work than to keep slaves. The use of slaves seems to have been largely confined to household duties and to work in the field alongside the master and his family.
War captives. The earliest means for the acquisition of slaves in the Near E was by military conquest. Thousands of men, women, and children were thus reduced to servitude. To the ancients this was considered a humanitarian improvement on the earlier practice of killing all of the enemy (Num 31:7-35; Deut 20:10-18; 1 Kings 20:39; 2 Chron 28:8-15). The Near Eastern codes and the OT law sought to limit the excesses of brutal punishment which captives received. The Heb. was told that, if a soldier sees a beautiful woman among the captives and marries her, he must treat her thereafter as a free person (Deut 21:10-14). He was not permitted to sell her into slavery after he ceased to delight in her. The Hebrews were subject to enslavement after capture in war at the hands of countless adversaries. The Phoenicians, Philistines, Syrians, Egyptians, and Romans held them in bondage in great numbers.
2. Purchase. The OT provided that foreigners could be bought and sold as slaves and considered as property (Lev 25:44-46). There are infrequent references to foreign slaves who were imported into Pal. (1 Chron 2:34f.). Hebrews were also sold into slavery in other lands; hence the death penalty was prescribed for those who kidnapped and sold a freeborn person (Exod 21:16; Deut 24:7). The OT cites examples of a father selling his daughter (Exod 21:7; Neh 5:5); a widow selling her children to pay her husband’s debt (2 Kings 4:1); and men and women selling themselves (Lev 25:39, 47; Deut 15:12-17).
Purchase. The OT provided that foreigners could be bought and sold as slaves and considered as property (Lev 25:44-46). There are infrequent references to foreign slaves who were imported into Pal. (1 Chron 2:34f.). Hebrews were also sold into slavery in other lands; hence the death penalty was prescribed for those who kidnapped and sold a freeborn person (Exod 21:16; Deut 24:7). The OT cites examples of a father selling his daughter (Exod 21:7; Neh 5:5); a widow selling her children to pay her husband’s debt (2 Kings 4:1); and men and women selling themselves (Lev 25:39, 47; Deut 15:12-17).
The price of slaves varied widely. Thirty shekels was the price according to Exodus 21:32. A scale of from three to fifty shekels is given in Leviticus 27:3-7, according to the age and sex of the slave. An appeal could be made to a priest when there was disagreement on price (v. 8). Twenty shekels was the price for a young man (v. 5)—the price paid for Joseph (Gen 37:28). The average price for a slave was forty shekels (2 Macc 8:11). A ransom of one talent for a captive (1 Kings 20:39) must indicate that he was an individual of great importance.
Children were sold into slavery under terms of a conditional contract. More frequently this was true of young, unmarried girls. Exodus 21 stipulates that if a man sells his daughter, she must become the wife or concubine of her master or of one of his sons when she reaches maturity. If no male member of the family takes her as a wife she is to be set free without any payment of money from her (v. 11). This condition was put in the contract because young girls were frequently purchased with the intention of making prostitutes of them when they reached maturity.
There are many scriptures here:
Slave, Slavery - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible Gateway
www.biblegateway.com
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