Actually, slavery in the bible was not how you think of it. Being a slave was not a demeaning thing back then. In fact, some slaves loved their masters so much that they stayed with them for life. Also, it wasn't like only black people became slaves. There was not one group of people that became a slave. Being a slave was more like being a butler or a maid. Please don't start shouting at me for saying that, because that is about the closest occupation to being a slave back then. There was nothing wrong with being a slave then. I am not saying the slavery today and of the civil war era was okay, nor was all the slavery back then.
So the eqiquette in the old testimonies about beating your slaves and if they die the next day later is ok? They weren't sold as meat like cattle? Families weren't split up and sold off if they were made after the person became a slave?
Wrong the only difference is it was more class based than racial. It was in no form like indentured servitude or some other contract as you imply. I suggest you read up and provide some evidence because this does not fit what I have read cans would be interesting to see how you justify slavery in the name of religion. It's wrong even if you do it to several nationalities.
Actually that is where you are incorrect. Slaves were only slaves for 7 years and then they were set free, unless they wished to stay with their master. They also were not sold. The only reason they would be forced into slavery is for crimes such as kidnapping. Read the books of the law in the Old Testament.
Hate to break it to you but you are dead wrong. From Wikipedia:
The Bible contains several references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. The Bible stipulates the treatment of bondsmen, especially in the Old Testament.[1][2][3] There are also references to slavery in the New Testament.[4][5] Male Israelite slaves were to be offered release after seven years of service, with some conditions.[6][7][8] Foreign slaves and their posterity became the perpetual property of the owner's family,[9] except in the case of certain injuries.[10]
The Bible was cited as justification for slavery by defenders.[11][12] Abolitionists have also used text from the New Testament to argue for the manumission of slaves.[13][14][15][16]
So it was only gods personal chosen elite that were kept 7 years. Every other worthless meat sack could be beaten and permenantly crippled to the masters delight, sold, raped and turned into living fornication toys etc... In the bible the only slaves freed were gods chosen elite. God helped murder entire peoples (genocide) as part of this fable. I for one am really glad it's a myth.
Sexual and conjugal slavery
Sexual slavery, or being sold to be a wife, was common in the ancient world. In the Old Testament the taking of multiple wives was condoned[33] and was recorded many times throughout the Old Testament,[34][35] and an Israelite father could sell his unmarried daughters into servitude, with the expectation or understanding that the master or his son would eventually marry her.[citation needed] It is understood by Jewish and Christian commentators that this referred to the sale of a daughter, who "is not arrived to the age of twelve years and a day, and this through poverty."[36]
"And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her. And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights."
—Exodus 21 7-11
So please be familiar with your own scripture before posting. Would you sell your own 12 year old daughter to a slave owner to be one of many wives? Or is the morality hopelessly outdated in what is obviously a man made tale.[/quote]
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Where to start? First of all let me educate you on the times. The land was rules by kings of city-states who were usually quite cruel. On many occasions they conspired together to kill the Hebrews. Rest assured if they had won there would not be a single Hebrew left alive. The Hebrews did what was necessary to survive in that time. War is bloody, and that's what it was, not genocide. Genocide is when the Jews were killed by Hitler.
Slaves. Slavery was much preferable to death. Slaves Israel took from other countries were not treated as horribly as you say. Rape- The price for rape in Israel was death. If it was proven that you raped someone then, you would be killed.
Crippling- if a master crippled a slave he had to pay them quite a hefty fine and let them go free.
"Sex slavery"- It was not sex slavery. It was an arranged marriage, much the same as the arranged marriages of mideval England. It was the norm of the time. Only recently (passed 200 years or so) has 12 been really young to marry. After a girl had been through puberty she would enter an arranged marriage in just about every civilization before maybe the 1700s-1800s. Even today children are being married at that age. Sex slavery is selling a girl into prostitution, not an arranged marriage.
Please, before making more comments like this, read the books of the law in the Old Testament.
