Is the Bible WRONG about SLAVERY?

Here's what Dan had to say!

[cygnusustus]

Being created in God's image does not mean that all people are created equal, and it certainly does not mean that all people should have the same rights.

The Bible condones and promotes chattel slavery.
Chattel slavery is defined as "the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work. Another definition is: "The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude."

Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery.
"44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour."

[nickbrasing]

"Jesus would say that Moses's commands around slavery like those on divorce are anathema to God's good design".

Except Jesus never actually said this. Or anything close to it. You're putting words in Jesus mouth that He never said? I could just as easily say that Jesus would have said that slavery was part of God's design because he told Moses that it should be legal. That heathens should all be enslaved, since He then goes on to say that not one jot or tiddle of the old law would pass away.

And I think I'd have more basis in reasonableness that yours?

[MrSeedi]

I doubt that Jesus would have called any part of the Torah "anathema".
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew:5:18
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew:5:19