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Is it ever moral to own another person as property?
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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 75992242" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>Very few people would advocate for "absolute freedom". Some regulatory control is necessitated for the stability of human society to function. I can't go around slaughtering people all willy-nilly, and I shouldn't be allowed to.</p><p></p><p>I suspect even the most ardent and even extreme libertarian would acknowledge this.</p><p></p><p>But should freedom, as a principle, be regarded as good? Yes, absolutely. The language of freedom is consistently God's language for redemption, salvation, healing, restoration, and justice. God liberated His people from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. God liberated His people from their Exile in Babylon. The Old Testament liberation of people prefigure the liberation of creation and the human person in Jesus Christ and His atoning and redeeming work. This is the same Christ who declared the fulfillment of Isaiah who wrote, </p><p></p><p>"<em>The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the Jubilee of the Lord and the day of God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,</em>" - Isaiah 61:1-2</p><p></p><p>The voluntary slavery of Christ's disciples is just that, a voluntary slavery. The same who says that we must reckon ourselves slaves of God and of righteousness, is also clear that we are regarded no longer slaves, but children.</p><p></p><p>The use of slavery as a metaphor of our obedience to Christ, our Lord, is very much how we ought to regard ourselves; but it does not speak of how God regards us, as God does not regard us as slaves at all, but as children. Thus we operate, in our participating with God in the world, as humble servants imitating the Humble Servant Himself. In the freedom of God's grace, however, we are not slaves at all but freemen and adopted members of God's <em>oikos</em>, His Household. Our place in God's House is not that of a slave, but rather a child; it is outside of God's House, in the midst of the world, that we labor as servants. And thus the service we render to God from faith and love is the service to our neighbor, that we might present our bodies before God as living sacrifices, holding firm to the work to which we have been called in Christ Jesus.</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 75992242, member: 293637"] Very few people would advocate for "absolute freedom". Some regulatory control is necessitated for the stability of human society to function. I can't go around slaughtering people all willy-nilly, and I shouldn't be allowed to. I suspect even the most ardent and even extreme libertarian would acknowledge this. But should freedom, as a principle, be regarded as good? Yes, absolutely. The language of freedom is consistently God's language for redemption, salvation, healing, restoration, and justice. God liberated His people from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. God liberated His people from their Exile in Babylon. The Old Testament liberation of people prefigure the liberation of creation and the human person in Jesus Christ and His atoning and redeeming work. This is the same Christ who declared the fulfillment of Isaiah who wrote, "[I]The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the Jubilee of the Lord and the day of God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,[/I]" - Isaiah 61:1-2 The voluntary slavery of Christ's disciples is just that, a voluntary slavery. The same who says that we must reckon ourselves slaves of God and of righteousness, is also clear that we are regarded no longer slaves, but children. The use of slavery as a metaphor of our obedience to Christ, our Lord, is very much how we ought to regard ourselves; but it does not speak of how God regards us, as God does not regard us as slaves at all, but as children. Thus we operate, in our participating with God in the world, as humble servants imitating the Humble Servant Himself. In the freedom of God's grace, however, we are not slaves at all but freemen and adopted members of God's [I]oikos[/I], His Household. Our place in God's House is not that of a slave, but rather a child; it is outside of God's House, in the midst of the world, that we labor as servants. And thus the service we render to God from faith and love is the service to our neighbor, that we might present our bodies before God as living sacrifices, holding firm to the work to which we have been called in Christ Jesus. -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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