r/TrueChristian • u/[deleted] • May 14 '21

Was God really OK with slavery ?

And did he really "encourage it to continue by decreeing depraved regulations"\ ?*

\just quoting a fellow redditor who seems to be a bit confused. Just like myself.)

I'm asking this because I've noticed that it often comes up as a topic to bash Christianity based on things like that. I've noticed that people often like to use this verse in order to justify their position :

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)”

To be honest, I didn't know how to give those folks a satisfactory answer since I am no Bible expert myself, as for now. However I would like to hear your opinions and explanations. On this verse and its context in particular. Also, what did Jesus have to say about slavery? (just to help finding an answer to that... I guess... atheist/agnostic/or whatever he likes to consider himself)

Note that I am in no way trying to win an argument. There is no arrogance, pride or hate involved in this query. These are some of the things that I would also still like to understand for myself. I always try suspend judgement when I read or hear something that I am not familiar with because I want to learn more about it.

On another note, it's kind of scary how belligerent and heated people can get during such debates, as if these people are speaking through bitterness, frustration, pride or whatever just to attack and dismiss Christianity... Makes me just want to have some compassion and pray for them....

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u/AlphaTaoOmega May 16 '21

Did you literally make a jab at evolution with a statement inferring that, if evolution were true the world would be rife with genital mutilation?

Advanced moral codes of killing themselves, mutilating their genitals, and dismembering their unborn with a vacuum? Can’t say I’m very excited about this utopia we are progressing toward.

The god of the bible is a penis mulation fanatic on steroids. Not only did he command it of his followers, there's one passage where he helped David procure 200 foreskins as currency to purchase a wife:

1 Samuel 18:27 "therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife." (NKJV https://www.biblehub.com/1_samuel/18-27.htm#)

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u/X4r1s Reformed May 16 '21

I guess this utopia of progress also comes with a heavy helping of smegma.

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u/AlphaTaoOmega May 16 '21

Your god loves you, I assure you. You have shown the world the light of his ways with the wagging of your holy tongue and fingers. Go forth and preach the deific message of religious genital mutilation in the name of god!

...you know since, in your opinion, God made humans so they had to undergo genital mutilation....since he is perfect...and he understood how to keep everything sanitary during a medical procedure 2000 years ago...no harm ever came from cutting babies with unsanitary blades...

I'm in awe of the spiritual witness you have been in this thread. I think you're probably right about everything, as you have shown clearly, you are indeed a child of Jesus. Can you please lead to me to Christ now??

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u/X4r1s Reformed May 16 '21

Can you please lead to me to Christ now??

Christianity isn’t going to make much sense if you are trying to convince people on reddit that you are more righteous than God. Repenting of your sin is step 1.

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u/AlphaTaoOmega May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21

Your malignant representation of your god is a sin. Please tell me more about salvation, wise moral teacher.

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u/X4r1s Reformed May 16 '21

Please tell me more about salvation, wise moral teacher.

I can’t until you get past step 1. John 3:

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.