The bible supports slavery.. do you support slavery?

Slavery started when a man (young, and broke) wanted to marry into a settled family. We read about how Jake wanted to marry Sarah, and he agreed to work for 7 years for the family as an "Indentured Slave" to marry her. Well, the dad tricked him and had him marry her older sister, and the dude had to work an additional 7 years to get the bride of his dreams.

This serves two purposes: harmonize the family on traditions, and to create protection & stability. Slavery then evolved to be like "Credit" (as we know it today). After using slavery as credit (which jewish tradition wiped out all debt every seven years) we see slavery becoming less "Indentured" and more enforced with payback of crimes.

So, if you stole money, you would be forced to serve time as a slave to make amends to those you hurt. Can you imagine if we made Bernie Maddoff a slave to those he stole from? Anyways, this worked well until it became abused.

In the 1500's mankind started making crimes more punishable; tipping the justice scale towards their favor (thereby stealing labor in the form of slaves). This is what caused slavery to run rampant, and the enslavement of many innocent people.

Before the Common Era. (B.C.) War, poverty, and crime were the basic factors that reduced persons to a state of servitude. Captives of war were often constituted slaves by their captors or were sold into slavery by them.

(Compare 2Ki 5:2; Joe 3:6.) In Israelite society a person who became poor could sell himself or his children into slavery to care for his indebtedness. (Ex 21:7; Le 25:39, 47; 2Ki 4:1) One guilty of thievery but unable to make compensation was sold for the things he stole, evidently regaining his freedom at the time all claims against him were cared for. —Ex 22:3.

At times slaves held a position of great trust and honor in a household. The patriarch Abraham’s aged servant (likely Eliezer) managed all of his master’s possessions. (Ge 24:2; 15:2, 3) Abraham’s descendant Joseph, as a slave in Egypt, came to be in charge of everything belonging to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh.

(Ge 39:1, 5, 6) In Israel, there was a possibility of a slave’s becoming wealthy and redeeming himself. —Le 25:49. Laws governing slave-master relationships.

Among the Israelites the status of the Hebrew slave differed from that of a slave who was a foreigner, alien resident, or settler. Whereas the non-Hebrew remained the property of the owner and could be passed on from father to son (Le 25:44-46), the Hebrew slave was to be released in the seventh year of his servitude or in the Jubilee year, depending upon which came first. During the time of his servitude the Hebrew slave was to be treated as a hired laborer.

(Ex 21:2; Le 25:10; De 15:12) A Hebrew who sold himself into slavery to an alien resident, to a member of an alien resident’s family, or to a settler could be repurchased at any time, either by himself or by one having the right of repurchase. The redemption price was based on the number of years remaining until the Jubilee year or until the seventh year of servitude. (Le 25:47-52; De 15:12) When granting a Hebrew slave his freedom, the master was to give him a gift to assist him in getting a good start as a freedman.

(De 15:13-15) If a slave had come in with a wife, the wife went out with him. However, if the master had given him a wife (evidently a foreign woman who would not be entitled to freedom in the seventh year of servitude), she and any children by her remained the property of the master. In such a case the Hebrew slave could choose to remain with his master.

His ear would then be pierced with an awl to indicate that he would continue in servitude to time indefinite. —Ex 21:2-6; De 15:16, 17. There is a lot more information about this but not enough space to put it.

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