Enough for what? Enough for it to take 1500 years for Christians to realize that beating people to death for insolence is wrong
No. I’m only referring to enslavement here.
Yeah I thought it was obvious I was referring to a subset of the behaviours of enslavers.
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
The bible is pretty clear that it isn’t murder to kill your own slave
You can misuse anything in the Bible to advocate for anything.
Doesn’t that strike you as an argument against the utility of the bible as a moral guide? Don’t you think it would be better if it was harder to use the bible to defend slave ownership? Like if it took a clearer stance against slavery. If instead of saying “treat your slaves justly and fairly” if it said “the truly righteous free their slaves and trust in the lord to provide, those that hold slaves will not inherit the kingdom of heaven” wouldn’t that have hastened the end of slavery within Christendom?
“Impartial scholars” there is no such thing.
Sure, but there are ways that scholars can try to diminish their bias, and it isn’t through legally binding faith commitments.
Yeah I thought it was obvious I was referring to a subset of the behaviours of enslavers.
The bible is pretty clear that it isn’t murder to kill your own slave
Doesn’t that strike you as an argument against the utility of the bible as a moral guide? Don’t you think it would be better if it was harder to use the bible to defend slave ownership? Like if it took a clearer stance against slavery. If instead of saying “treat your slaves justly and fairly” if it said “the truly righteous free their slaves and trust in the lord to provide, those that hold slaves will not inherit the kingdom of heaven” wouldn’t that have hastened the end of slavery within Christendom?
Sure, but there are ways that scholars can try to diminish their bias, and it isn’t through legally binding faith commitments.