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Why did the USA get rid of slavery when God wants good people to have slaves?

Leviticus 25:44

“‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

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Leviticus 25:46

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life

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  • 4 years ago

    The US has laws that restrict driving such as speed limits and stop signs. So does that mean that the US wants good people to drive?

    Nowhere does God say that he wants anyone to own slaves, but he did have regulations regarding slaves for the the ancient Israelites under their covenant with him and its associated theocracy.

    As far as the new covenant that Christians are under, read the book of Philemon and see if you still think God desires slave ownership.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    God hates slavery. Remember he freed the Israelites from the Egyptians.

  • 4 years ago

    After Jesus rose from the dead on the third day in victory over death, the new commandment was to love God above all else and to love your neighbor. If someone loved you would they make you a slave? no

  • 4 years ago

    US laws are not based on the laws of ancient Israel for one thing.

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  • 4 years ago

    The "nations around you" are all made up of God's enemies: heathen idolaters.

  • Ralph
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The fact of the matter, we are all Slaves of Satan and sin. because of the fall of Adam an Eve in the Garden of Eden. We are dead in trespass and sin, that is why we nee a Savior to save us from the wrath of God, and only the Lord Jesus Christ if he has mercy on some of us will save us out of the kingdom of Satan and put us into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ where we will be at peace with God, and the Lord Jesus Christ will make us a new creature of God by giving us a brand new soul so we never want to sin against God Holy Word the Bible only, we will only want to do the will of God and the will of God is to be obedient to God Holy Word the Bible only. So read your Bible and pray and stay out of al of the churches because the church age is over, BABYLON THE GREAT HAS FALLEN, that is all of the churches throughout the entire world, because God is separating the wheat from the tares, that is the good from the evil, that is the true believers from the unbelievers, the saved from the unsaved, read Revelation 17:5 read Revelation 18:4 read 2 Thessalonians 1:2-4 read Matthew 24:15-16 read 1 Peter 4:17 read Amos 8:11 read Galatians 5:17-23

    Source(s): King James Holy Bible
  • 4 years ago

    God didn't WANT people to be slaves. He allowed it. Those slaves were treated well, as another member of the family. They didn't work on the Sabbath. They were paid. They had medical care. They could marry and have children. Every 7 yrs they were allowed to stay or leave. Many stayed as slaves (workers) because they were taken care of properly. The African slaves that were forced into it by Europeans in America weren't treated well and that's not what God was talking about.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Because Mr. Piltdown proved Atheism is true?

  • 4 years ago

    Why do the haters of God imagine they can speak for God?

    Especially when, as a matter of record, He has declared the opposite of what you say?

    What does that make you?

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