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Talking to "freethinker"
I guess I mention my credentials, not just because I have some...and you don't, but because I have had to work harder to get them.. And I am thankful to have had the opportunity to achieve what I have for my family. You mention context and yet you refuse to note the time, the culture, the traditions, or to define what you call slavery. I have lived all my life with racial discrimination. I have lived in the effects of racial slavery in this country. You DO take the biblical slavery out of context. By your definition...a person placing himself under servitude to another, where if he leaves he can be placed in prison, where he is under the control of another for a specific period...is slavery. Actually I just described the US Military. (I was Army) History is full of people that have perverted and twisted the scriptures to justify evil. You still have not figured out that the Bible has NOTHING to do with social reform. It has everything to do with a reformation of the heart. Slavery (Servitude…both voluntary or involuntary) was part of the culture of those times…just like marriage rituals where they would sell their daughters….. or a person placing themselves as a slave to another for payment of debt or to repay an act of honor. To compare the racial slavery of the New World to Biblical slavery could not be more out of context. Your perspective is clouded by your obvious religious bigotry. If you had a choice between those that remained after wars or those in poverty of being taken as slaves….or dying. I guess you would prefer death. And that was the way it was. Biblical slavery was often an act of mercy. Bringing them into their own clan or family. It was in biblical slavery that Joseph was raised to a position of authority next to Pharaoh himself and in that position saved his family from famine. It was in slavery that the Hebrew children grew into a great nation in Goshen until delivered by another slave…Moses…who had been an adopted Prince of Egypt. God did not “approve” of the terrible actions of the Egyptians on their Hebrew slaves…but used it to temper them and prepare them for their deliverance. Ruth was a Moabite, who’s Jewish husband had died. All she had was her mother-in-law, Naomi. She placed herself under voluntary servitude to her husbands near kinsman, Boaz to “redeem” her. Her story is one of courage, loyalty and faith. And she became a direct linage to the Messiah.
Don’t try to compare modern racial slavery from that in the Bible…unless you have any idea of what you are talking about.
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Posted by RaymanT on 2008-05-11 06:36:30 | Rating: | Views: 57
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