Is owning slaves a sin.

[good samaritan]

Biblically slavery was not disallowed, but it was regulated. We are slaves in some way are another. Either we Christ's bondman or Satan's. I choose to serve Christ.

[houston]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Can you give scripture to support this.

First we need to define slavery.

[Esaias]

In the Law, the master of a slave is called "master" and never "owner". Owner is reserved for owners of animals, houses, objects, and for husbands, chief men/leaders, or as a descriptor of mastery of a skill (archers are "owners of arrows", for example).

Master is "adon", owner is "baal"So slaves are not said to have an "owner", just a "lord" or "master".

This distinction appears to hold true throughout the entire Old Testament.

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by Esaias

In the Law, the master of a slave is called "master" and never "owner". Owner is reserved for owners of animals, houses, objects, and for husbands, chief men/leaders, or as a descriptor of mastery of a skill (archers are "owners of arrows", for example).

Master is "adon", owner is "baal"So slaves are not said to have an "owner", just a "lord" or "master".

This distinction appears to hold true throughout the entire Old Testament.

This threaad has not generated the posts that I thought it would.
With the current environment stating that anyone who owned slaves should be erased from history, I wondered where God stood on the subject.
If God did not consider it a sin, then where does that put us on the subject?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

This threaad has not generated the posts that I thought it would.
With the current environment stating that anyone who owned slaves should be erased from history, I wondered where God stood on the subject.
If God did not consider it a sin, then where does that put us on the subject?

We ought to be wherever God is, on every subject.

[houston]

Biblical slavery is not the same as black slavery in the USA. Biblical slavery was allowed for specific reasons. Slavery in the USA was men stealing.

[aegsm76]

Originally Posted by houston

Biblical slavery is not the same as black slavery in the USA. Biblical slavery was allowed for specific reasons. Slavery in the USA was men stealing.

Good point.
So, let's put this in a more personal frame.
What would you have done if you had inherited slaves.
Many states had laws prohibiting you freeing them, so as a Christian what would you have done?

[houston]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Good point.
So, let's put this in a more personal frame.
What would you have done if you had inherited slaves.
Many states had laws prohibiting you freeing them, so as a Christian what would you have done?

I don't know what I would have done. My views would have been shaped by the era in which I lived.

[Amanah]

Originally Posted by houston

I don't know what I would have done. My views would have been shaped by the era in which I lived.

So if you were a Christian during the slavery error, you would not have seen the bible as being against slavery?

It is hard to believe that enlightenment thinkers who believed the following would have not considered slavery to be wrong.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

[houston]

All WHITE men are created equal