PR TikTok Atheist Questions Slavery

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[@nickbrasing8786]

I'm not sure you've looked into this enough? All of your discussion of the Levitical rules around being released in the year of Jubilee only applied to Hebrews. And Hebrews could not be made slaves in Israel. You're referring to Hebrew indentured debt servitude, and the woman is talking about slavery. Two different things. The year of Jubilee ONLY applied to Hebrews, not foreigners. And it was the foreigners who were the actual lifelong chattel slaves in Israel. And those people were not voluntary slaves. Had nothing to do with debt. And were never released. In fact, any children they had also automatically became lifelong chattel slaves as well. THIS is likely who she's talking about. But who you are not talking about? And as to your claim that "The slavery that's allowed for in scripture is nothing like the Trans Atlantic slave trade" is simply wrong too. Here are 10 ways they're the same. 1. Owned as property? Both 2. Owned for their entire lives? Both 3. Children born to them automatically became slaves too? Both 4. Could be beaten? Both 5. Bought from other nations? Both 6. Could not be killed? Both (look it up) 7. Forced to work? Both 8. Didn't get paid? Both 9. Involuntary? Both 10. Families could be broken up? Both Not as different as you would think?

[@itsbrianlucas]

It was literally a reaction off the top of my head. I mean, somewhere in my files I've got a paper I wrote on this in bible college...

[@Bugsy0333]

Owning another person as property is slavery, period. No matter what the circumstances, slavery is immoral. “Christians” who duck and weave, twist and tap-dance around this issue and fail to acknowledge what the Bible is clearly saying are immoral and shameful. They use “context” to try to excuse what is clear in the Bible. It is clear that their morality is highly inferior. God, who clearly endorses slavery as shown in the Bible, is immoral and does not deserve our worship and trust. There is no getting around it - slavery is evil and God endorses it through the “God-breathed, divinely inspired” Biblical passages.

[@itsbrianlucas]

You are twisting it and creating false definitions. And to demand an answer while beginning with "all possible responses are wrong" is just picking fights.

[@adrianlayman892]

ebed: slave, servant Original Word: עֶבֶד The Hebrew and Greek words for slave are usually rendered simply "servant," "bondman," or "bondservant." Slavery as it existed under the Mosaic law has no modern parallel. That law did not originate but only regulated the already existing custom of slavery ( Exodus 21:20 Exodus 21:21 Exodus 21:26 Exodus 21:27 ; Leviticus 25:44-46 ; Joshua 9:6-27 ).

[@itsbrianlucas]

Thank you. So… this. ☝️

[@nickbrasing8786]

Yes, eved can mean a lot of different things for sure. I completely agree. I could add a dozen more just from memory. And one of them would be "slave". When translating passages you have to look at them in context. Who is the passage talking about? And if the passage is talking about someone owned as property for their entire lives, forced to work without wages, and their children after them are born into that same situation, then it's appropriately translated "slave". So I don't understand your point here. And slavery under the Mosaic law has more parallels with American slavery than you think. I listed 10 of them in my comment above. But even if it was different, so what? It was still slavery right? And that's the issue. Lifelong chattel slavery. Generational too. Children born to slaves in the Bible automatically became lifelong chattel slaves too. Generation after generation. And you can't change that fact. We're told how to do slavery correctly in the Bible and never once told that we shouldn't. That it's wrong, immoral, a sin or against the will of God. And that's not what I would have expected the Bible to say.