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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Depends on what is meant by slavery. We are all slaves to some extent. Slavery was a type of job/labor to gain or pay off debt which was honourable. We are slaves to jobs, loans, family, friends. If someone is talking about owning someones rights... Well that is up to the other person and should be a mutual situation of contract. I do not believe however that imposed salvery would be right. Again it depends on what is meant by slavery.
maybe we could find enough scriptures to justify slaves I need at least a dozen...ha....
My joking point about the female slaves is actually valid for the thread, as the same culture that is being discussed also allowed polygamy in addition to slavery.
So with the scriptures to justify owning another person also comes scripture to justify me having 5 or 6 wives.
I am thinking that the NT instruction on treatment of slaves was more so aimed at the cultural reality of the time. Slavery was a common, accepted practice.
So common that people didn't much think about it and instruction that slaves are to be treated as brothers was valid.
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Because a slave wouldn't throw something sharp and pointy at me when I say "Get in the kitchen woman..."
Ah
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Paul didn't really address slavery one way or another; only the relationships that occurred because of it.
He was talking to slaves and masters who were believers, and he didn't take a political stand. He addressed the dynamic, and instructed them to be good to one another. I'm not sure that he was supporting slavery. IMO, he was simply addressing the social dynamic as it existed from a Christlike POV.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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