Some Christians will tell you that just because slavery is recorded in Bible does not mean it is condoned. Perhaps they have heard that from their apologetic ‘heros’ that swoop in and seem to “save the day” on controversial matters like these.
Other honest Christians who have studied the subject, know full well that slavery was condoned, that slaves were taught to obey and that the practice was indeed at times brutal and at times did involved kidnapping.
I have to believe that popular apologists also know the truth surrounding this and are withholding it.
There are many verses speaking of slaves and slavery but not a single admonishment against it, while the fact remains that there are hundreds of rules about various other aspects of life, from what kind of fabric to wear, to what kind of food to eat.
It’s not only condoned, it’s accepted and it’s a blessing. It’s time to face the truth.
Here is an article written by an honest Christian, who tells it like it is. Not only is slavery condoned, it is endorsed. I will use the same references used by this author to show you that owning slaves is actually seen as a blessing by god.
The Lie That Slavery Back Then Was Different
Another thing you will hear that is that while we all have a horrific and brutal view of what slavery is, the condoned slavery in the bible was a much gentler and kinder version. Modern day apologists will try to paint the scenario where a person ‘sells themselves” to an owner because there is a debt to pay off. While some scenarios might have been close to that, trying to sell you on the idea that their watered-down version of slavery in the bible is the norm and that there was not true ‘ownership’ or brutality by slave owners, is nothing short of deceitful.
Any true apologist who knows the Bible is directly misleading you. Either that or their indoctrination is so strong that they are unwilling to see the truth.
Wes Huff is one of these apologists of which I speak. I posted a rebuttal to his Youtube Video where he tries to pass off dishonest arguments. My rebuttal got deleted. I posted again. Again, it gets deleted. From time to time, I repost and the same thing happens. It gets deleted.
My Rebuttal To Wes Huff’s Slavery Video
“The entire time the Bible, as we know it today, has existed and was being written over the thousands of years, even to the New Testament, slavery is condoned. You know that much. You’re not supposed to eat shrimp or wear cotton/wool blends but you can certainly own people right? Hundreds of verses about this and that but not one saying slavery is wrong.
You gloss over this issue, downplay it and you’re completely disingenuous. When you quoted about setting the slave free after seven years, but you leave out the part that this term only applies if the slave is Hebrew. And male! Other slaves are slaves for life.
Also right in the same chapter you were quoting from, (Exodus 21), you mention that slaves are to be set free after seven years, while conveniently neglecting to mention that any wives or children that the Hebrew, male slave acquires while in slavery experience a different fate and remain with the owner. If the Hebrew, male slave decides to stay with his wife and children, he is to have an an awl through his ear and he is also, then made a slave for life.
Not only is slavery condoned, it is seen as a blessing. One example is from Genesis 12:16 which tells us how Abraham came to be blessed with slaves, among other gifts.
Genesis 24:35 and Isaiah 14: 1-2 are other verses showing owning slaves means you are blessed by this god.
Leviticus 25:44-46 tells you how you can buy male or female slaves from the nations around you and how you can pass them along to your children as property they can inherit from you!
Exodus 21: 20-21 Tells us how you can beat the slave within an inch of his life so long as you don’t totally kill him or her. Also, you’re not supposed to take an eye or a tooth out during a beating. It also clearly states that the slave is the owner’s property.
Even in the New Testament and there is no reason to believe this is not brutal and inhumane.
You quote Galatians 3:28 from Paul, who says “In Christ there is no slave nor free” “nor male or female” and leave it at that. Well it’s that nice? Why are there different rules then for slaves and masters and men and women”? What is your point?
Here are the verses from the New Testament that you forgot to mention.
Colossians 3:22 tells slaves to obey!
1 Peter 2:18-20 tells us slaves are to be subject to their masters. Not only that, but it’s commendable to take a beating!
Ephesians 6:5-9 again tells slaves to obey!
Titus 2:9-10 again tells slaves to obey!
A runaway slave owned by a Christian slave owner, Philemon, is sent back to him by Paul who had becomes a go between, telling the slave to return to Philemon. How bad was it for the slave to have to run away, which was a high risk endeavor? Why didn’t Paul tell Philemon to free the slave? Would that not be the compassionate thing to do? The Christian thing?
Wes, you also forgot to quote 1 Timothy 6:1-2 which tells slaves they should serve their Christian owners even better than they would serve a non-Christian slave.
Incidentally, during the slave trade in the USA, a clergyman and slave owner, Charles Colcock Jones, defended slavery and wrote a book, The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States. The idea, much like those in the scriptures, were that a Christian slave made a better, more obedient slave.
Genesis 16 in the story of Hagar, we learn that men known as Bible heros can have sex with their wife’s slave and when the slave runs away, this god tells her to go back to the owner.
You quote Genesis 9:24 and you actually try to pass off the idea of slavery as a curse. That is completely dishonest because when you read it, your godly hero Noah executed that curse to make someone else slave.
“When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan. The lowest of slaves” And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
You cite a verse that states that kidnapping is wrong yet completely ignore verses where it is recorded as happening by this god’s favorite people, with no reprimands, so therefore condoned.
Judges 21:20-23
So they commanded the Benjaminites, “Go hide in the vineyards, and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration,jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin. When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us we’ll say to them, ‘Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”The Benjaminites did so. They took as many wives as they needed by seizing them from the dancers, and they went away and returned to their inheritance. Then they rebuilt the towns and settled in them.
Again, here is another instance where kidnapping (and rape) is condoned from Deuteronomy 21:10-14
When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
You give an unfair and inadequate rendition of slavery in the bible. You purposely leave out verses showing the brutality of it all. The truth is that slavery was justified according to the Bible and the slave traders used the Bible to to justify it. There are many verses surrounding slavery but not one stating it is wrong.
If this god is so good, he should have said “Thou shalt not own slaves”, but he never did.
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