06-12-2015, 05:10 PM
(06-12-2015, 04:45 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: It's been awhile since my Sunday school days, but didn't God give specific permission/instruction on owning foreign slaves? You know, like how and where to buy them from, that you can pass them down to your kids, and that they can be your property for life. I can't remember the specific passage, but someone else probably knows.
That seems pretty "biblical"...with the whole God telling people how to own other people and all.
Quote:Leviticus 25:44-46King James Version (KJV)
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
So in those days, children were able to enter into lifetime servitude contracts "freely". And even the families they "begat" that weren't born yet?
Interesting.
