Ambiguity In The Bible

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We have no Biblical record of Jesus speaking against the issue of slavery. Thus, Christians on all sides of the debate used the Bible’s ambiguity on the subject to argue their own side concerning whether slavery constitutes as sin. The video lecture argues that the specific verses in the Bible that mention slavery fall into three categories: 1) verses acknowledging that treatment of slaves was unjust and stating that slaves should treat Christian masters better than non-Christian masters, 2) ambiguous verses that don’t mention slavery by name, which the reader interprets however they want, 3) or explicit regulations which promote non-Israelite slavery. Hell Without Fires discusses pro-slavery advocates justifying American slavery with The Curse

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