Does the Bible Condone Slavery and Genocide?

[nschlaak]

Thank you for covering this topic with the various types of slavery and their differences.

[JosephSmith-tbge]

This has been a question of great concern for me for years.Glad your addressing the issue.

[UnfilteredMedic]

Perfect video regarding this topic. Short. Concise. Accurate. FACTUAL. This is the ANSWER.
No matter how some of you get all butt hurt about it, the topic is DONE and has been for years.
If you STILL, reject this and refuse to learn better then by facts and definition YOU are not only wrong but are the racist.

[doakbelt]

This is great commentary, thank you!

[poppyseed]

I really appreciated the point that this is an example of God dealing with evil, which is also a question that gets brought up, why doesn’t God get rid of evil? This is God getting rid of evil, He judges it and He destroys it utterly. And because He is merciful, He gives us all time to recognize our sin and repent. AND a way to be redeemed through Christ Jesus death and resurrection.

[johnnelligan]

Great explaination. I think it is worth explaining that slavery itself is not held to be inherently evil in scriptures.
Scripture is concerned with how we treat people and love, and first how we love and obey God.

[ex-muslimtestimonies]

Congrats with 100k ✝️❤️🙏

Keep going please 🙏

[joarcokru]

Slavery is a much more complex subject than simply condemning it outright without understanding its subtleties. The biblic slavery could actually be used today to eradicate poverty.

[waxworse]

Exodus 21: 16 Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

[carguy]

3:48 great point. The same Bible that “condones” slavery was the same Bible that inspired abolitionists and Wilberforce to end it.

[boxelder]

I really appreciate you covering this. In the modern world we are all slaves to debt. Fortunately we have the ability to become slaves to Christ to cover our spiritual debt because Jesus paid the debt we cannot repay.

[iPigus.]

Great video! Also in clearer picture of second point there is 7th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy in verse 2 God tells "you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.", but right after that in verse 3 it tells them "Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons", these Biblical terms are really like ours language today and we can't take everything literally. God bless you everyone!

[thomasarcher]

Exodus 21: 16 "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." It isn't complicated or obscure.

[DigitalHammurabi]

Just say you read Paul Copan’s book and then made your argument.

[jimhughes]

People often forget the Bible is a history book!!!

[harryedwindavies]

I’ve only read the Bible fir 69 years.
Let me assure you so that the gospel teaches going to prison for non payment of debt.
Indeed slavery was a way out of this. X

[John-critic]

As to the Arab-Muslim slave trade, Ghanaian professor John Azumah helped set the record straight in “The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa.” In an interview about his book, Azumah said the following:

Over 28 Million Africans have been enslaved in the Muslim world during the past 14 centuries While much has been written concerning the Transatlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

While the European involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day. A comparison of the Muslim slave trade to the American slave trade reveals some interesting contrasts.

While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Muslim slave trade. Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.

While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Transsahara and East African slave trade was between 80 and 90%! That meant that between 140 and 280 million Africans were murdered during by the islamic slave trade over these 1400 years.

While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for sexual exploitation as concubines, in harems, and for military service.

[ManoloVintage]

God's way of slavery is different than the world's way controlled by Satan. God's way is working together and sharing the bountiful outcome of the land to pay off debt.
Gods way is if you lived in a nice house, the slave lived in a nice house. If you ate good food, the slave ate the same good food.

Only when God's people started to act as ungodly as the nations around them, to be like those nations, did He hand them over to the Nations. God told them that the Nations don't care about them. So they took Gods people and made them slaves to themselves, but not in God's way of slavery, but in Satan's brutal way of slavery.
Jesus was pissed that the deciples have been adopting a Satanic way of slavery and so he ripped them a new one.
Luke 17:7-10
7“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”

Jesus is angry. Jesus, is our master and we are his slaves. Should Jesus mistreat us? Jesus shares everything with us. He defeated Satan and he shares it with us. He's going to share his throne with us.
God's ways is not the same as Satan's ways.
This goes for rape too. To God rape is taking someone as wife who was originally dedicated to someone else. You know Satan's way and definition of rape.

Also God never asked His people to genocide anyone. If He did then you can read about how He failed because those groups of people were still alive, living among God's people (Tyre, Cannan etc).
The goal for Cannan was to push them out, and if they couldn't, they had to live together. Only when they resisted and fought did God's people fight back and kill. If they didn't fight but refused to leave then God's people had to live with them in the land, but God's people were to be in charge of the land and that group of people.

The point is God's way is different than Satan's way and even definitions are different to God and Satan.
God said: "In that day you eat from the fruit you will die."
Adam and Eve did not die in a day.
So, was Satan right that God lied?
No.
Satan had man's thinking of what a day is. To God, who made the tree and set the rules, a day is a thousand years.
If you hold to Satan's definition and view of these words then god is a monster. If you understand God's definition and view of these words then God is love.

[bethtaylor]

Ryan Pitterson has written Judgment of the Nephilim which explains and supports (from the Bible) that the Caananites whom God told Israel to totally eliminate had the seed of the angels that rebelled against God long before. They were giants from the line of Ham and Caanan, as Ham's wife had the genetics that included dna from the Nephilim, the offspring of the rebellious angels and human women. The others on the ark didn't have that; they had only the dna that God had created. It's a fascinating read, and Pitterson backs it up with Biblical text. This explains so much of the Old Testament and therefore the New for me.