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Slavery in the bible.
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<blockquote data-quote="elliott95" data-source="post: 71985771" data-attributes="member: 17558"><p>The Bible is a very complicated source of information and morality. Why wouldn't it be? Morality is a struggle, and finding effective and just social institutions to allow a people to survive and prosper in our harsh and unforgiving world is well nigh an impossible task. People looking for straightforward and easy answers would do well not to even look at the Bible. It is not for those who like everything to be simplistic.</p><p>For those who read with understanding, the dignity and absolute worth of all human beings who have been created in the image of their Creator becomes know as soon as people open their eyes and open their ears and see what is really being said.</p><p></p><p>Abraham and Sarah left Egypt flush with goodies and slaves ill-gotten based on their lies to the Egyptians. For the next five hundred years, their progeny were in turn enslaved by Egypt. When finally sprung by God, the lesson for them as they were coming back into positions of power and authority, including over the lives of those who were now wer among the unfortunates was "Remember, you were slaves once in Egypt. ....'Remember how you were treated back then when you are in a position of power over those now working for you' ".</p><p>Hagar the Egyptian slave oppressed by Sarah was avenged by five hundred years of slavery, and it was in fact her Arab progeny that started the ball rolling by selling Joseph as a slave to the Egyptians in the first place.</p><p>It doesn't sound like the Bible was just 'okay' with slavery when that was the magnitude of the consequence that flowed from their own oppression. People who think that the Bible is just 'okay' with slavery are people who can't see the forest for the trees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elliott95, post: 71985771, member: 17558"] The Bible is a very complicated source of information and morality. Why wouldn't it be? Morality is a struggle, and finding effective and just social institutions to allow a people to survive and prosper in our harsh and unforgiving world is well nigh an impossible task. People looking for straightforward and easy answers would do well not to even look at the Bible. It is not for those who like everything to be simplistic. For those who read with understanding, the dignity and absolute worth of all human beings who have been created in the image of their Creator becomes know as soon as people open their eyes and open their ears and see what is really being said. Abraham and Sarah left Egypt flush with goodies and slaves ill-gotten based on their lies to the Egyptians. For the next five hundred years, their progeny were in turn enslaved by Egypt. When finally sprung by God, the lesson for them as they were coming back into positions of power and authority, including over the lives of those who were now wer among the unfortunates was "Remember, you were slaves once in Egypt. ....'Remember how you were treated back then when you are in a position of power over those now working for you' ". Hagar the Egyptian slave oppressed by Sarah was avenged by five hundred years of slavery, and it was in fact her Arab progeny that started the ball rolling by selling Joseph as a slave to the Egyptians in the first place. It doesn't sound like the Bible was just 'okay' with slavery when that was the magnitude of the consequence that flowed from their own oppression. People who think that the Bible is just 'okay' with slavery are people who can't see the forest for the trees. [/QUOTE]
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