Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.lehigh.edu (Jonggu Moon [890911]) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Slavery condoned by God ? Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 90 08:47:24 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Last night, my housemates and I got into a discussion about slavery. We knew that slaves were supposed to be obedient to their masters and master were supposed to treat slaves with loving kindness. Then the question was brought up: Does God think slavery is good ? Unlike the other sins, we could not find a verse that specificly commands us not to subjugate our fellow men. There are plenty of commands to love one another and treat each other as equals, but slavers can always work their way around such ambiguous commands. One in our group suggested that, just like death, slavery is an unavoidable sin. God realized this and so did not bother trying to stamping it out directly, since He knew it would just alienate everyone in that time. Instead, He worked slowly and from the inside, culminating in today's accepted view that slavery is wrong. Similarly, God did not originally say that divorce was wrong. Only until Jesus' arrival did he change His Law to make divorce wrong. ^>*<^jon