The Bible Promotes Slavery

The secular slavery system is a human establishment endorsed by the most moral humans at the time. So slavery existed by the approval of the most moral humans at the time it existed. God chosen not to condemn the most moral humans in order not to confuse the message of salvation, though in a bigger scope all humans are dead, they are all sentenced to death in one way or another including how bad they treat the slaves. That's actually why Paul blame the traders of slaves but not the owners (who, including the mos tmoral humans at the time, endorsed such a system).

1 Timothy 1:10 (NIV)
for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine


All need God's salvation as all sinned (to the death). God doesn't specially condemn the most moral humans at the time of slavery. What God emphasized is that Hebrews are not allowed to truly enslave Hebrews. While the Hebrew slavery system is just a labor system to help out the poor such that they won't sell themselves to the gentile slave masters. God allows the Hebrew slavery system such that the Jews will not be enslaved through the secular slavery system endorsed and adapted by the most moral humans.

 

Yet He wanted to prioritize telling people to murder gay people, murder people for wearing the wrong clothes, murder people for working on the wrong day (was working on Saturday not the norm?), murder people for freedom of religion, outlawing eating shrimp, etc? If that's true, God has some really messed up priorities. Doesn't Paul talk about how impossible it was to follow the Law and that it was meant to show us our moral failures? Then why make a morally subjectivist exception for slavery? Plus, there is the whole problem that the Bible doesn't just say that God allowed slavery, but in some cases COMMANDED it. This excuse just doesn't check out.

 

One of the most asinine beliefs humans have ever deceived themselve with is that ancient ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish and Arabian religious fairytales are credible. Neanderthal religious fairytales make more sense. The biblical God character deserves to be tossed into the lake of fire and vaporized, if such a thing existed.