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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The recognition that slavery existed in that era is not a condoning of slavery.
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You missed the point; God says nothing about slavery being wrong. In fact, he implicitly allows his people to keep slaves. All of us can surely agree that slavery is immoral, but in the Bible, it's not treated as such. If we're supposed to learn morality from the Bible (as many people claim), why doesn't God condomn slavery? This would make an especially potent addition to the narrative of the Old Testament and the story of the Jewish people escaping Egypt. Since they themselves were once slaves, you'd think that once they gained their freedom God would forbid them from having slaves of their own.