Unfortunately, slavery is still practiced in today's world. It is easy to find various statistics from a variety of sources on which countries allow and even sanction various forms of slavery. It is still practiced in such countries as Mauritania and the Sudan...
For quite some time, the issue of slavery, as found in the Bible, has become a topic of discussion among the critics of the Christian faith. Atheists, in particular, attempt to denigrate the Bible as a whole by bringing up the issue of slavery recording within its...
The different kinds of slavery that exist in the world today include forced labor, child labor, debt labor, sex slavery, child slavery, child soldiers, and domestic servitude. Different kinds of slavery also have different kinds of rights and privileges. There is...
Biblical slavery is not the monolithic type of chattel slavery practiced in western civilization in the past few centuries. I have listed scripture verses on slavery and arranged them by topic. Slavery and Servanthood Female servants (Gen. 12:16; Exod. 20:10)...
The Bible does not approve of slavery. It permits it. God allowed slavery to exist in both the Old and New Testament times. But this does not mean that slavery was the system that God wanted. Slavery was an invention of fallen man - not of God. Nevertheless, God...
Slavery was permitted in the Bible because of sin in the world. It existed before the Jews were formed as a nation and it existed after Israel was conquered. God allows many things to happen in the world such as storms, famine, murder, etc. Slavery, like divorce,...
Introduction Why write about slavery in the Bible? Slavery in the Bible is not the same as the chattel slavery of America Slavery Bibliography for carm.org Articles What is slavery? Why is slavery permitted in the Bible? Does the Bible approve of slavery? Bible verses...
Slavery in the Bible was different than in modern times. The issue of property deals with what is produced, not that the person was actual property. We know this because property was to be returned to the owner. But, the Bible prohibited the extradition of slaves...