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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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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I hate to nit-pick here, Harry, but although your contention about the teaching of the Bible is correct as concerns slavery; the actual authorship of both Ephesians and Colossians are disputed by modern Bible scholars. About half of them believe them to be from the hand of Paul, while the other half argue for authorship by an anonymous author using Paul's name. I know this has little to do with your basic premise. I just thought I'd throw that in.
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As I see from a
post you made earlier today in another thread, my "nit-picking" was entirely unnecessary. I should have known you'd already be aware of that.
Sorry about that!