Confronting Racism

[Brownshoe]

(02-05-2016, 09:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote: ...and there's a very good chance that it was OK to beat your slave to death; however, God established boundaries. 

He is saying you may discipline your slave (someone who has voluntarily become your property); if you kill him, you will be punished, if you do not kill him you are only hurting yourself. Although it sounds barbaric 4,000 years later; it was the law of man back then, God just tried to help them see the light.

You keep adding that the second option (surviving) results in the slave's death and that it not what it is saying. Why would the wording "survives" be used; why would it say if he dies in a day or 2? 

Slaves were not always voluntary.

By the exact wording of that verse there is no punishment if you beat your slave and he dies a few days later, because he is your property.