@PHLITE1@_Ochiedike ok..but god is described as loving and all knowing, yet his actions aren't consistent with that description.
Saying god is big and humans are small doesn't answer the question of why a painful method of death was chosen and why innocent lives were included at all.
@Legithustlex0 @kaylah_osas Also “he'd have to repay the debt somehow, which would naturally mean selling his labor to another master” where are you getting this from, the verse just says let them live freely and don’t oppress them.
@Legithustlex0 @kaylah_osas If foreign slaves are “permanent property,” that only means something if the owner has the right to recover them. But you’re also saying any runaway slave can’t be returned.
If “permanent property ”can’t be returned, then they’re not actually permanent property in practice.
@realMWO@AgentVenom141 @Mashall788 @DeeWaynee94 God commands love, but also allows masters to be beat their slaves? You don't see the contradiction?
You say slavery was about paying off debts or crimes, yet the Bible clearly allows permanent, inherited slavery of foreigners. That is chattel slavery.
@Legithustlex0 @kaylah_osas Your interpretation conflicts with god saying non-Israelite slaves are permanent property.
If a slave can’t be returned, then the “permanent ownership” law can’t actually be enforced.
And if it can be enforced, then the "runaway protection" law doesn't apply to both slave types
@AgentVenom141@realMWO @Mashall788 @DeeWaynee94 Why is god conforming to the times back then? If he wants something to stop, like idol worshoping and child sacrifices, he stops it, he's done it many times.
And since when were you allowed to beat, own and bore your neighbors? You can be treated like neighbors without slavery.
@charlesiyare1@kaylah_osas @Legithustlex0 I read the bible and saw god giving instructions on how to buy slaves, who you can buy them from, how long to keep them, how much you can abuse them, and that you can pass them down to your children as property lmao.
@Legithustlex0 @kaylah_osas That verse is talking about foreign runaway slaves entering Israel, not slaves owned by Israelites.
Also, god explicitly states that non-Israelite slaves were permanent property. Why would he say that if slaves could just leave if they wanted?
So no, slavery was not consensual.