DonP
Puritan Board Junior
It seems to me the Bible does not forbid slavery. Of course stealing men to sell them as slaves is wrong. So would buying those slaves be wrong?
What about when a country conquers another country and makes slaves of the captors? Then what if they were to sell them?
And lastly what of those who end up in debt and are unable to repay, should they be allowed to be slaves to work off the debt.
Could these slaves be sold for the amount owed until they work that off for someone else?
1 Cor 7:20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. NKJV
1 Tim 1:10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine NKJV
Philem 12-20
2 And I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, 13 whom I wished to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but without your consent I did not want to do anything, that your goodness should not be as it were by compulsion, but of your own free will. 15 For perhaps he was for this reason parted from you for a while, that you should have him back forever, 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me. 18 But if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account; 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it (lest I should mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well). 20 Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
NASB
Paul sends a slave back to his owner, asks for the release of the slave who had runaway and then become a Christian.
What about when a country conquers another country and makes slaves of the captors? Then what if they were to sell them?
And lastly what of those who end up in debt and are unable to repay, should they be allowed to be slaves to work off the debt.
Could these slaves be sold for the amount owed until they work that off for someone else?
1 Cor 7:20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. NKJV
1 Tim 1:10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine NKJV
Philem 12-20
2 And I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, 13 whom I wished to keep with me, that in your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but without your consent I did not want to do anything, that your goodness should not be as it were by compulsion, but of your own free will. 15 For perhaps he was for this reason parted from you for a while, that you should have him back forever, 16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me. 18 But if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account; 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it (lest I should mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well). 20 Yes, brother, let me benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
NASB
Paul sends a slave back to his owner, asks for the release of the slave who had runaway and then become a Christian.