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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Here we have an issue that nobody, not one person, will disagree with -- that slavery is immoral. But it was clearly accepted in the bible. Nobody has argued that. If the Bible was written by god, which Christians generally appear to believe, then god accepted slavery.
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Wasn't 'written' by God, but by people who lived in those times.
Sure, slavery is immoral, wrong, sick whatever you want to call it.
But it did exist in those times....and was as accepted as divorce is today.
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I mean seriously -- god allowed this evil practice to go on, even wrote a few rules to govern it -- because he was concerned about the economy?
Come on now. You can't actually believe this.
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I do.
Like I said earlier, God does not actively play a role in deciding the outcome of every SINGLE situation. We make choices....and obviously the choices people made in that day condoned slavery.
Heck, it was alive and well in the United States up till a few hundred years ago. Because of the choice of men.
Not because God supported it.
If you use THAT argument....you can say God supports just about everything that happens today. Why? Because apparently he isn't divinely intervening and stopping heinous acts from occurring.
Goes back to the free will thing we were talking about earlier.