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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (2886)	10/28/2000 12:31:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 28931

I did, already. I gave the entire quote about the ear - you took it out of context - in its entirety it was about indentured servants, instructed Jews to free them during the Jubilee, and if the servant said he didn't want to be freed then keep him. I gave the quote about not returning escaped slaves. And I gave the letter from Paul where he asked the slaveowner to free the escaped slave. It seems to have been an exercise in futility.

To: Solon who wrote (2886)	10/28/2000 12:38:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I was looking at some interesting historical research, which claimed that at the time Jesus lived, the Pharisees and the Essenes did not keep slaves but the Sadducees did. And of course the Romans did. And of course the events in the Pentateuch transpired before the Jews had writing, as you know, so that was, what? 3,000 years ago? And what does that have to do with Christ? There are those who say that Christ was an Essene. If so, He did not believe in keeping slaves. Maybe He didn't talk about it because it didn't come up. I have no idea. I think it's strange to say that because He didn't talk about it He must support it. I don't consider that to be a particularly compelling argument.

To: Solon who wrote (2886)	10/28/2000 12:51:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

If God is omniscient, than he knew in advance about slavery- whenever and wherever it was or would be practiced. He knew, or should have known, of all the abuses that would occur. A responsible God would make his words clear on the subject- if he (or she) were really concerned about that kind of human suffering- and I suppose this God would make his word clear through the use of any of his surrogates- like Jesus. But God didn't. It's a great pity. Of course God could clear up all the errors of interpretation that abound regarding the Bible. He need only use my talking Bible approach. If he knows everything then he knew I was going to post that- and in fact he knew it from before the creation of this world. So....where is my talking Bible?