hankarin wrote:mesquite wrote:The question I posed was simple and straight forward. Either you deceived intentionally or out of ignorance. That your post was deceptive is not in question. I laid it all out for you in the same post that had the question,
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Please tell me how this arrangement compared with that of other surrounding nations?
I haven't got a clue how it compared to surrounding nations. If you have some historically accurate info in this regard I would like to see it. Otherwise you are just blowing more smoke.
hankarin wrote:Why was it in place? Was it meant to last indefinitely? Any slavery under imperfect humans was sure to be abusive. God's law attempted to limit the amount of abuse.
Putting into law the allowance to beat your slave so long as he/she does not die within two days is not limiting abuse it is encouraging it!
hankarin wrote:Anyone who checked the references could easily find all the details of the arrangement as you did. If anything you added some excellent details perfectly proving and explaining why we need an end to human domination of mankind. (Ecclesiastes 8:9)
You seem to be having a hard time answering the question of whether the deception in your post was intentional. Your lack of answer is sufficient answer for me.
So every 50 years bondslaves were freed. No big deal and irrelevant. The year of Jubilee did not apply to slaves from surrounding nations.
in Leviticus 25:44-46 Moses wrote:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
hankarin wrote:The rebellion of the first man, Adam, brought mankind into slavery to sin and death. God's provision for freeing mankind from the grip of sin and death is the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 20:28; John 3:16; 1 John 2:1, 2)
This will be a find end to a "slavery" all of us have experienced.
There was no rebellion in the Genesis story. According to the story, prior to eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam & Eve did not have the faculties to rebel.