02-05-2016, 06:06 PM
(02-05-2016, 06:01 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: How is that not endorsing slavery? It's literally telling the slaves to do whatever their master is telling them even if they are extremely bad to them. If the bible didn't endorse slavery then it would outright say it's wrong to have slaves, or it wouldn't even mention slaves.
It would have to mention slaves in those NT texts because those people writing them were preaching to an enslaved people. You notice it doesn't speak to the masters of the slaves, it speaks to the slaves themselves. Acknowledging the existence of something does not equate to endorsing it.
That being said, there are passages speaking to the masters of servants/slaves. Again, acknowledgement is not endorsement. And we have to bring it all the way back around to the fact that slavery and racism are not synonymous.
