PROOF THE BIBLE Abolished Slavery! #slavery #jesus #free

FOR PURPOSES OF: Education, Public Criticism, Content Review, and Combating Misinformation.

Atheistic secular ideologies preach the bible is the cause of slavery. Despite the historical timeline of events providing undeniable evidence to the contrary.
from the Israelites to Jesus, God paved the way for the evil practice of men to end.
Jesus frees slaves, Just like the bible claims.

CHECK OUT MY CHANNEL FOR MORE "EVIDENCE OF GOD"

#bible #jesus #atheism #civilrights #free #christian #god #slavery #history #evidence

[BlasterMaster]

I think it's clear the bible condones slavery, it sets up rules and regulations for it, which is the opposite of condemning something.

[dinahnicest]

You don't know how they acquired their slaves?
"When you march up to attack a city, Make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the lord God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves." Deuteronomy 20: 10-14

[nickbrasing]

I'm not sure I buy this argument to be honest. It seems to hinge on three main points.

1. The Bible does not condone slavery, or violence against slaves.
2. Early Christians in America were ignorant of what the Bible said
3. And they were ignorant because they didn't have access to an actual Bible because of the lack of printing presses in early America

While you recognize that it was Christians in America that established slavery and used the Bible as their justification to do so, you seem to simply waive this away with "they took things out of context" and them simply moved in. But it's much more complicated than that. So to your points in order

1. The Bible does in fact condone lifelong chattel slavery. By definition it does. And there were in fact a lot of similarities between American slavery and Biblical slavery. As to violence against slaves, I think it's likely true that there was more in American slavery than allowed in Biblical slavery. But I disagree with your characterization of the Bible as not allowing violence against slaves. Of course it did. There were just limits placed on how badly you could beat them. And there is absolutely no discussion on WHY you were beating them. But you claimed that the only reason an owner of a slave in the Bible could beat him is if they had "become violent or attempt to hurt or intimidate or harm" the slave owner (you called them the "house owner", but admit it, they were the "slave owner"). And nowhere in the Bible does it say this. You're simply making that part up. And completely ignoring the most likely reason to beat your slave. In America and the Bible. Motivation. A slave simply refusing to work, or not doing enough work. After all, they weren't paid or anything. You're completely, or at least partially misunderstanding Exodus 21:20-21. This is a passage establishing intent on the slave owners part. Did he intent to kill his slave. If it takes days for the slave to die then the owner is given the benefit of the doubt that he didn't intend to kill his slave. And therefore he isn't punished since the slave is his property and he has the right to beat him. In no way shape or form is this saying that you can only beat your slave if they become violent as you claim. That's just incorrect. Not even the Talmud says this.

2. Probably more so than todays Christians, sure. Depending on the time period you talked about. But most Christians today also don't read their Bible. And they have access to it for free in any hotel room or the internet. So to somehow claim that Christians in early America would have been so different than Christians today seems disingenuous. To some degree sure, but to the degree you seem to be claiming? Probably not. And you're ignoring the fact that a reading of the Old Testament would have also just easily confirmed the justification for lifelong chattel slavery too. And there is absolutely nothing in the NT that specifically condemns slavery either. Compared to the OT, the NT has very little to say on the subject of slavery to be honest. Not even Jesus addresses the institution of slavery. You have to use general theology to come up with that, while the OT specifically condones the practice. It's why it was such a battle at the time. You don't have to take anything out of context to justify slavery. The Bible is really pretty clear. Now you can argue that the OT condoning of slavery doesn't apply now because we're under a new covenant, but you can't argue that it didn't condone lifelong chattel slavery.

3. And as to the whole printing press thing. This seems to me a kind of silly argument to be honest. No offense intended here. You're completely ignoring the fact that the Pilgrims and the later immigrants to America brought Bibles with them. The Pilgrims themselves literally brought the 1560 Geneva Bible with them. The Bible was widely available in Europe during the period you're talking about. Because they had a huge printing industry. Ever since the 1500's. And yes, it took awhile for America to get it's own printing industry up and running from scratch, but before they did Europe sold them Bibles. England and Holland both sent over tons of them for that very reason. Including the slave Bible. There really wasn't a lack of Bibles per se. Bibles were delivered wherever they could be sold. Including America. Something you're ignoring here.

All that said, yes I completely agree that it was Christians that fought for the abolition of slavery in America. And thank God they won. But you simply can't hand waive away the fact that it was also Christians that established and fought to keep the institution of slavery in America. And they both used the Bible to do so. The simple fact that the Bible could be used as the justification on both sides of this issue should tell us something.

[dinahnicest]

The Gospels record nothing said by Jesus about slavery. The closest we have is this by his apostle Peter: 1Peter 2:18-21