@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT The rules were the concession. Slavery already existed, so the law restricted it to limit harm (ban kidnapping, punish abuse, limit duration). You don’t regulate something you think is morally ideal, you regulate what you’re trying to contain.
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT I’ll spell it out for you. Matthew 19:8 establishes the principle that the law sometimes regulates sin rather than endorses it. That principle explains slavery laws in Exodus. Do you get it now?
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT The Bible regulates things like slavery to limit harm in a fallen world. It’s teaching how to make the best of a bad situation, not declaring them morally ideal.
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT The Bible constrains existing evils in a fallen world, it doesn’t declare them morally ideal which is why Christianity ultimately abolished slavery rather than defended it. Nazism was an ideology ordered toward mass murder, not law enforcement in a constitutional state.
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT Christianity does not define righteousness by how justified someone feels, but by conformity to objective moral law. I didn’t “laser focus on a verse that means nothing”, you invoked the Bible. The scripture contradicts your framing so you’re trying to declare it meaningless.
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT Why are you listing verses about how to treat foreigners, instead of abolishing law or enforcement like you were arguing?
Romans 13 is about the legitimacy of governing authority. Even in the OT the sojourner lived under the law.
Try not to change the subject again.
@aywysuwisndy@VNaysh89709@BillWang1992@I_AM_WILDCAT That's a strawman. It teaches that governing authorities exist to enforce law and restrain wrongdoing.
You invoked the Bible, so I just cited the part you didn’t want to deal with.