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Bible Slavery Laws

The prospect of manumission is a widespread idea in the New Testament. Unlike the Old Testament, the manufacturing criteria of the New Testament include Roman laws on slavery as opposed to the Shmita system. Production within the Roman system depended largely on the type of slavery: slaves were often foreigners, prisoners of war or heavily indebted. For the foreign-born, production was increasingly amorphous; However, if debt slavery was defeated, production was much more concrete: freedom was granted as soon as the debt was paid. Often, believers were offered children as a means of payment and their production was determined from the beginning (at the beginning) with the father (head of the family). [84] This manizipia (enslavement) of children by the Father did not prevent the sale of children into sexual slavery. When he was sold into sexual slavery, the prospect of full manumission under the provisions of Roman law became much less likely. Similar to the provisions of the Federal Code, the sale in sexual slavery meant a greater chance of eternal slavery through explicit slavery or forced marriage. Article 4 No one shall be detained in slavery or serfdom; Slavery and the slave trade are prohibited in all their forms. In Paul`s letters to the Ephesians, Paul motivates the early Christian slaves to remain faithful and obedient to their masters as they are to Christ. Ephesians 6:5-8 Paul says, “Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ,” that is, Paul who commands the slaves to obey their Master.

[100] Similar statements about obedient slaves can be found in Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10. [101] [102] [103] In Col 4:1, Paul counsels church members who are slave masters “to treat their slaves with righteousness and fairness, and to recognize that you too have a master in heaven.” [104] In addition to Paul`s advice to masters and slaves, he used slavery as a metaphor. In Romans 1:1, Paul calls himself a “slave of Christ Jesus,” and later in Romans 6:18, Paul writes, “You have been delivered from sin and you have become slaves of righteousness.” [105] [106] Also in Galatians, Paul writes about the nature of slavery in the kingdom of God. Galatians 3:27-29 says, “There is neither slave nor free person, there is neither man nor woman; for you are all one in Jesus Christ. [107] We find similar patterns of language and understanding of slavery in the epistles of Peter. In 1. Peter 2:18 writes to St. Peter: “Slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and just, but also to those who are evil.” [108] How would you react? Such a monologue could lose its temper, even for well-informed Christians. We don`t always know how to respond to the ridiculousness of old Testament laws, especially those we no longer obey. Some would caricature my position by claiming that I don`t care what happens to people`s worldly well-being as long as their souls are saved. I reject it wholeheartedly. Of course, when other things are the same, freedom is preferable to slavery, “If ye can gain your freedom, seize the opportunity,” says 1 Corinthians 7:21.

But it is less important than eternal salvation. The spread of political freedoms has been a welcome by-product of the progress of the Gospel throughout the world. However, this is a by-product, not the product that the gospel actually seeks to produce. The later deuteronomic text is more human than that of the Exodus; This is moral progress. I would now like to go further in this discussion. To the texts on slavery in Exodus and Deuteronomy, I will now add the laws of manumission in Leviticus 25:39-55. Slaves needed special protection, as recorded in Exodus 21:7-11. The main idea of these verses is that a man who buys a slave must marry her or give it to his son to marry him. Although she is sold as a slave, she is practically treated as a free woman given for a bridal price. She could not be sold into prostitution. In case anyone is surprised, the Bible is clearly against sexual slavery.