Does the Bible implicitly endorse slavery?
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Video says: "The Bible is consistently against capturing people to be in slavery."
Dobbie says: Well, actually the Old Testament God permitted Hebrews to capture women and children to be in slavery as spoils of war.
The video says 1 Timothy 1:10 denounes slavery. Well, in most Bible editions the verse reads it's bad to be a "slave dealer" or "manstealer." That's the private enterprise of kidnapping persons to sell as slaves. It's forbidden in the Old Testament too. Exodus 21:16 "Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death."
1 Timothy denounces that form of slave trade, although 1 Timothy fails to denounce slavery in general. So it seems the video host doesn't know what he's talking about.
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