Isn't it amazing how God stopped approving of slavery at the same time western civilization did?

Funny how God holds all the same opinions as the people who pretend to speak for him do.

They had to do some quick re-interpreting of the Bible to pretend it didn't endorse slavery. Fortunately Christians seem to have short memories and it wouldn't have taken long for them to forget that the pastors used to use the Bible to defend slavery.

I've read the bible, and there are some pretty bad stuff in there about slavery and women's rights.

Christian Response to Slavery and Women's Rights: The bible isn't to be taken literally. God doesn't support that..

Christian Response to Gay Rights and atheism: The bible is 100% true about this issue. God will send these horrible hard working contributors that live good lives to hell. (It's practically an Irreligion/Sexual Orientation non-fiction, the bible!)

In 20 years (once the older generation dies off), the gay rights position will be like that of the first two, and god's opinion will have changed yet again.

Either be all out crazy, semi-reasonable, or atheist.

No changing around.

I don’t imagine that its that he consider it yet that slavery is merely yet another sin that comes from the autumn of guy. in the prefect international God created for guy there must be no slavery or the different harsh issues consisting of rape, homicide, abuse. God also reported that masters were to attend to their slaves properly a much cry from what occurred in the course of slavery in American or perhaps some slavery that still exists immediately. also in this days from time to time by using monetary motives someone ought to promote themselves as a slave. The Hebrews enslavement in Egypt is the in uncomplicated words time in the bible the position Slavery is depending totally on a particular ethnic or crew of people. seem what God eventually did to Egypt. also it became a lot more beneficial handy for a slave to be set loose in this cases in fact it became required if someone offered themselves as a slave once they served 6 years they were to be freed of their seventh year. And their draw close became no longer to deliver them on the way empty handed they were to furnish the slave many of the cattle between another issues. Colossians 4:a million Masters, furnish your slaves with what's sweet and honest, because you recognize that you actually have a draw close in heaven The bible also condemns kidnapping and promoting people into slavery Exodus 21:16 “everyone who kidnaps yet another and both sells him or nonetheless has him at the same time as he's stuck could be placed to death.

You still worked for your boss but dress differently this time, you still have to work long hours and if it needed to be, an overtime. Is the Western world that different? I am a self employed person..i have my own business, a Catholic. We too lived in a sacrificial system , that is why your soldiers are always sacrifice to battlefields even if it is not your war. LOL

To quote Dr Who "who do you think makes your clothes".

Slavery still exists these days, it's just that western civilisation tends to ignore it and instead praises the "market friendly" policies of countries that allow sweatshops that beat, threaten and abuse their workers.

Western civilisation disapproves of slavery that it can see, it gets around the problem of seeing by looking in the other direction!

Give me a list of non-Christian abolitionists, then we'll talk about your mis-understanding of scripture.

Claiming that the Bible supports slavery because some professing Christians did, is the same as saying that Evolution supports genocide because Hitler used that as his basis for it.

You are not an intelligent person.

Isn't it amazing how ignorant and arrogant you are when it comes to God====that kind of foolishness and stupidity certainly doesn't deserve any kind of eternal reward, does it? It always amazes me when people are so disrespectful and arrogant when it comes to God and yet they wonder why they wouldn't end up in Heaven (I certainly wouldn't be surprised if you already asked this type of question also---you most likely will or would have otherwise).

The Bible does not specifically condemn the practice of slavery. It gives instructions on how slaves should be treated (Deuteronomy 15:12-15; Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1), but does not outlaw slavery altogether. Many see this as the Bible condoning all forms of slavery. What many fail to understand is that slavery in biblical times was very different from the slavery that was practiced in the past few centuries in many parts of the world. The slavery in the Bible was not based exclusively on race. People were not enslaved because of their nationality or the color of their skin. In Bible times, slavery was more a matter of social status. People sold themselves as slaves when they could not pay their debts or provide for their families. In New Testament times, sometimes doctors, lawyers, and even politicians were slaves of someone else. Some people actually chose to be slaves so as to have all their needs provided for by their masters.

The slavery of the past few centuries was often based exclusively on skin color. In the United States, many black people were considered slaves because of their nationality; many slave owners truly believed black people to be inferior human beings. The Bible most definitely does condemn race-based slavery. Consider the slavery the Hebrews experienced when they were in Egypt. The Hebrews were slaves, not by choice, but because they were Hebrews (Exodus 13:14). The plagues God poured out on Egypt demonstrate how God feels about racial slavery (Exodus 7-11). So, yes, the Bible does condemn some forms of slavery. At the same time, the Bible does seem to allow for other forms. The key issue is that the slavery the Bible allowed for in no way resembled the racial slavery that plagued our world in the past few centuries.

In addition, both the Old and New Testaments condemn the practice of “man-stealing” which is what happened in Africa in the 19th century. Africans were rounded up by slave-hunters, who sold them to slave-traders, who brought them to the New World to work on plantations and farms. This practice is abhorrent to God. In fact, the penalty for such a crime in the Mosaic Law was death: “Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death” (Exodus 21:16). Similarly, in the New Testament, slave-traders are listed among those who are “ungodly and sinful” and are in the same category as those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, adulterers and perverts, and liars and perjurers (1 Timothy 1:8-10).

Jason 1:17 in part - "there is absolutely no change with god". Yet the religions of his supposed followers keeps evolving. (no pun intended) Hmmm...

Wow, how on earth can someone so biblically illiterate have the nerve to ask such salacious and insulting questions based upon no facts whatsoever? You stated so many false hoods in one question that it would take a week to explain how every single one of your claims is not only ignorant of facts, but is based upon lies and distortions handed down to you by other anti-religionists who are just as ignorant of the Bible and God as you are.