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Originally Posted by HarryT
Your belief that slavery is wrong is actually at odds with what the Bible teaches, terrazoids. Eg, in Ephesians 6:5-9, Paul urges slaves to obey their masters in the same way that they obey Christ, while Colossians 4:1 tells slave owners to treat their slaves justly. But nowhere - not once - is their any condemnation of slavery.
The belief that slavery is wrong has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity.
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I stated earlier that God did not write the bible. Its true that in the ancient world, slavery was widespread. Pauls comment can be understood in light of the culture he lived in at the time. He had an idea that social strife was not the way to solve the worlds problems. Advocating slaves to rebel against their masters would not achieve heaven on earth just as advocating the Tibetans to rise up against the commie invaders also wouldn't serve this world. Jesus taught the simple message of overcoming love to all people and your examples fit right into that. The slave loves his master... and the master loves his slave. Now on the strength of that this eventually led to slavery being defeated as it was in the western world. That is Gods way. Not the warlike ways or arguing and fighting that athiests prefer.