Paul didn't really address slavery one way or another; only the relationships that occurred because of it.
He was talking to slaves and masters who were believers, and he didn't take a political stand. He addressed the dynamic, and instructed them to be good to one another. I'm not sure that he was supporting slavery. IMO, he was simply addressing the social dynamic as it existed from a Christlike POV.
Considering the Bible was written by men, I always wondered how different it would be if they would have let women write down a book or two.
2 Points.
1. Your comment leaves the notion that you feel that the Bible is tainted or contaminated with male-ness.
2. Despite the differing views of this and a few previous generations God certainly does have a specific order of authority that he works through and, one has to assume, good reasons for doing so. If women writing a few books would have changed anything in His Eternal, Wise & Holy Word that might be why he didn't do it. One would assume that the true test of God's leading would be that nothing would have changed unless the notions put forth in Gods Word were erroneous and needed changing.
Last edited by Digging4Truth; 02-18-2011 at 09:52 AM.
somethings are indeed culture but that doesn't mean we can use culture to change things in the bible that are not cultural. You know such as women having authority over over the man etc...
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I am just saying it helps to know the culture of the day the Bible was written...and especially JEWISH CUSTOMS...I enjoy teaching JEWISH customs and history along with just about any history...if I were not a missionary I would have chosen to be a history teacher....
There are laws in especially the O.T. we would never think of obeying and many things even in the NT we understand to be a culture thing...such as greet one another with a holy kiss...I donīt think it would go over to good for me to start kissing the brothers...ha....
LOL! It was really an eastern and Jewish manner of greeting for the "same sex" and on the cheek.
really don´t want or believe in slaves...but would help to have a few clones of myself around....ha....especially to go into areas that are soooooooooooooo dangerous....I would sent my clone...ha....
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really donīt want or believe in slaves...but would help to have a few clones of myself around....ha....especially to go into areas that are soooooooooooooo dangerous....I would sent my clone...ha....
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somethings are indeed culture but that doesn't mean we can use culture to change things in the bible that are not cultural. You know such as women having authority over over the man etc...
or the master ruling over the slave....
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This is an apples to pickles analogy in my opinion.
When speaking of these relationships between men & women they are largely based upon marriage, family etc. A woman is to be subject to her own husband etc.
The institution of slavery is no longer in existence in our culture. The scriptures that speak to slavery do not instruct us to own slaves. They instruct people in a society that accepts slavery the way to treat one another.
The institution of marriage and the family still do exist although this could change if the direction we are headed as a society is any indicator.
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