lol!
Apparantly, you skipped the chapters where slavery is fully regulated and allowed.
So how do you explain that people who read the same book, can come to such vastly different conclusions?
You are misquoting the intent which is not surprising. No affirmation whatsoever exists for slavery; and indeed, it is advocated to get free if you can.
The slavery situation at various times in history was merely
acknowledged, not affirmed.
1 Cor 7:21 Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you,
but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
That "do not let it concern you"
does not in any way affirm or approve slavery, but merely was stating to a disparate group of new believers that it would have no bearing on living out your faith as a new believer.
It says what it says and gives the parameters it gives for believers.
There are those who twist what it says for gain, whether monetary gain, approval of man, validation to feel like a "good moral person" given the falsehood rife in the church today, whatever. That is just the truth.
There are sheep, shepherds, wolves, and goats INSIDE the Church; this is what you have to understand. They will be separated out in the end, not now.
31“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
32Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,f you did it to me.’
41“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
44Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’
45Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
The point being that some of the sheep don't even know they are sheep now, and goats do not know at all either.
Jesus says that if you love Him,
you do what He says (and his scriptural agents who wrote the New Testament based upon fulfilling the Law in the Old Testament.
John 14:15 If you love me,
keep my commandments.
John 15:10 If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
(Remember this same Jesus who was abiding in His love, also turned over the tables and drove those out who would benefit monetarily from selling sacrifices in the temple. Love is truth, not just grace.
Matthew 28:20 "teaching them to observe all that I commanded you (like doctrines of baptisms, communion, etc).
2 Pet 3:2 "that you should r
emember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles"
Love the Lord and love your neighbor as yourself. Do what is right for him too, not just for you.
So anyone who is teaching others from a position of authority that it is perfectly ok today to do things proscribed for people of faith in the totality of scriptureis a liar. (Kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, fail to honor God or the Sabbath, sexual immorality of all kinds, honoring father and mother, theft, etc).