A myth propped up by secular skeptics is that Scripture sanctions slavery. Nothing could be farther from the truth. First, it should be noted that far from extolling the virtues of slavery, the Bible denounces slavery as sin. The New Testament goes so far as to put slave traders in the same category as murderers, adulterers, perverts, and liars (1 Timothy 1:10).
Furthermore, slavery within the Old Testament....read more at equip.org
Exodus Chapter 21
These laws relate to the fifth and sixth commandments
21:1-11 Laws respecting servants
These laws explain the moral law, and the rules of natural justice:
- The servant in the state of servitude, was an emblem of that state of bondage to sin, Satan, and the law, which man is brought into by robbing God of His glory, by the transgression of His precepts.
- Likewise in being made free, he was an emblem of that liberty wherewith Christ, the Son of God, makes free from bondage His people, who are free indeed; and made so freely, without money and without price, of free grace.
21:12-21 Judicial Laws
- God, who by His providence gives and maintains life, by His law protects it.
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