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Originally posted by Mikeymoonshine
No that's really not what I am making it sound like. you were the one who started talking about flawed men.
The bible is meant to be "the word of god" it's where you guys get all of your beliefs from and it's how many Christians justify the bad things they do to others. If you are saying it isn't the word of god then brilliant but you also have to admit that you have no idea what the word of god is at all because the bible is your only reference.
So you are arguing that slaves were not slaves? Go and read the bible the fact that you are actually telling me that those people were not slaves shows that you have not.
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um? **** you? i'm tired of your relentless prissy know-it-all attitude that is progressively getting worse as you continue to drag this pointless debate on (that's gotten off-topic by the way)
and yes, it is kind of what it sounded like. i brought up flawed men because it's a main point in the Bible. these big men that people look up to were simply men, flawed individuals with ****ed up lives before and after because it is to show that God makes miracles happen, not us. even in Bible studies we go over and reiterate how these seemingly perfect people had done bad things. the point is to glorify God, not people.
and it is meant to be the word of God, it's not His fault that people then interpret the word and twist it around to support their own disgusting views. that is a problem with PEOPLE. not Him and not the Bible. your argument is human-based and is aimed for humans. God is not human, and he doesn't tell people what to do with their lives. maybe in the OT, but only because we were growing as a species and doing bad things on whole. eventually we couldn't stop and we began taking everything (even his word) too far. the Bible discusses corruption within the church and many things similar to that. you're targeting one simple thing when it's so much more complicated than that. there were a lot of bad things going on in the OT that God then introduced Jesus's death as a way of giving us another way out of sin in the NT.
again, your argument is not a biblical argument perse. it's an argument against the people abusing the Bible. that is a different discussion altogether, and it is one i actually agree with.
and i don't completely know the history of the time , were there even black slaves (or the kind of slavery i'm assuming you're talking about)? but what i do know is that the term didn't mean what you think it meant back then. that's a thing you know, words we use nowadays didn't actually mean what we think they mean back in time. slavery meant servitude back then, not borderline human trafficking.
i'll say it again, this is off-topic and it's getting really close to being uneducated (and i don't just mean you haven't read the Bible) and offensive. please drop the subject if you're not going at least agree to disagree. this is getting out of hand.
