-----Original Message-----
From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:59 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
So, I guess if we're going to live by the bible, I guess we can all start
having slaves again!
http://www.carm.org/questions/slavery.htm
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, is not preferred by
God. Instead, it is allowed. Where many nations treated their slaves very
badly, the Bible gave many rights and privileges to slaves. So, even though
it isn't the best way to deal with people, because God has allowed man
freedom, slavery then exists. God instructed the Israelites to treat them
properly.
* The Bible acknowledged the slave's status as the property of the
master (Ex. 21:23; Lev. 25:46),
* The Bible restricted the master's power over the slave. Ex. 21:20).
* The slave was a member of the master's household (Lev. 22:11)
* The slave was required to rest on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10; Deut.
5:14)
* The slave was required and to participate in religious observances
(Gen. 17:13; Exodus 12:44; Lev. 22:11).
* The Bible prohibited extradition of slaves and granted them asylum
(Deut. 23:16-17).
* The servitude of a Hebrew debt-slave was limited to six years (Ex.
21:2; Deut. 15:12).
* When a slave was freed, he was to receive gifts that enabled him to
survive economically (Deut. 15:14)
The reality of slavery cannot be denied. Slaves were "slave labor
played a minor economic role in the ancient Near East, for privately owned
slaves functioned more as domestic servants than as an agricultural or
industrial labor force."1
But on another note, why should the *bible* have any influence on the
government regulating marriage?
Marlon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monique Boea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:10 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
>
> Sorry, sending again...
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> hopefully w/o the HTML junk
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> 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
> and unrighteousness of people39 who suppress the truth by their40
> unrighteousness,41 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain
> to
> them,42 because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the
> creation
> of the world his invisible attributes-his eternal power and divine
> nature-have been clearly seen, because they are understood through
> what has
> been made. So people43 are without excuse. 1:21 For although they
> knew God,
> they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became
> futile
> in their thoughts and their senseless hearts44 were darkened. 1:22
> Although
> they claimed45 to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the
> glory of
> the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings46 or
> birds or
> four-footed animals47 or reptiles.
>
> 1:24 Therefore God gave them over48 in the desires of their hearts to
> impurity, to dishonor49 their bodies among themselves.50 1:25 They51
> exchanged the truth of God for a lie52 and worshiped and served the
> creation53 rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
>
> 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For
> their
> women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,54 1:27
> and
> likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women55 and
> were
> inflamed in their passions56 for one another. Men57 committed
> shameless acts
> with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
>
> 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God,58 God gave
> them
> over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.59 1:29 They
> are
> filled60 with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness,
> malice. They are rife with61 envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They
> are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful,
> contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless,
> covenant-breakers,62 heartless, ruthless. 1:32 Although they fully know63
> God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to
> die,64
> they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.65
>
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