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To: mark silvers who wrote (20793)	9/15/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: DLL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Mark; It is easy to find fault and to ask questions about difficult issues, it is another to take some time and dig out answers and try to live a moral life in honor to God. I will and have answered many of your questions but you have refused to answer mine. What do you think of the whole book of John? As I recall you began this discussion by asking questions and forming opinions about single verses from it. I would be very interested in your views about this very influencial and interesting book. If you will not spend your own time reading you should not waste time asking about it only to state your own opinion. Opinion is fine as far as it goes, but personal opinion never instructs like study and it is never as profitable. In Yeshua's love - DLL

To: mark silvers who wrote (20793)	9/15/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Read Leviticus 25:35-46 to see a little of what God outlined concerning slavery. An Israelite could not have another Israelite as a slave. But an Israelite could purchase slaves from other peoples and countries. Deuteronomy 15:12-18. God made rules to make the practice better for the slave. I imagine slaves were an economic reality. Slavery in the terms of those times was different than what we think about it today in the USA. Slaves then seemed to go into service willingly to avoid poverty and maybe starving to death or were sold for debts. We think of slavery today as people being stolen and sold against there will. I'm sure that happened back then too, but it seems there were different ways then to become a slave. There were indentured servants in the new world who were indebted for seven years for there passage from England, then they were freed. That is a form of slavery, but not the kind we know happened to africans that we are repulsed by today. Indentured servitude even seems harsh by todays standards but those were the realities of the times. People expected it and were not used to having "rights". Harsh realities in harsh times. We live very pampered lives today, that's for sure. Imagine if instead of declaring bankrupcy today you became a slave for seven years to your debtor's. People would work harder to pay up, wouldn't they.