Ep. 255 - Does the Bible Support Slavery

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar are diving into the nuanced topic of slavery in the Bible. Atheists like to point fingers at this and claim that the Bible supports slavery. While contemporary perceptions of slavery evoke images of the brutal Atlantic slave trade, the biblical context offers a different understanding. In biblical times, slavery predominantly referred to a form of indentured servitude where individuals voluntarily entered service as a means of survival or economic gain....

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0:00.0	All right, Franz. So we're talking today about slavery, and the question is, does the Bible support slavery?
0:06.7	Mark, would you say this is one of the things that atheists will pull when you're talking to them about the faith?
0:14.0	Yeah, but they don't want to hear the answer.
0:16.0	Right. I was at Lehigh University and I had lectured on the subject of Theodice, the problem of evil for an hour, at secular university, and then I did
0:24.8	Q&A for an hour.
0:26.4	And a gentleman came up to the microphone and he wanted to bring up this point, but he didn't
0:30.2	want to hear the answer.
0:31.6	So oftentimes, that's very common, right?
0:34.1	People will bring up an objection,
0:35.8	thinking that there is no answer.
0:37.6	It's a gotcha moment and then they go their way.
0:40.0	So he wasn't ready that I was actually looking down,
0:42.9	looking at my answer and all my notes for what,
0:45.1	if somebody actually brings this up.
0:47.2	And he had left. And it was like, where'd he go?
0:48.8	Took off.
0:49.7	See ya. Have I ever told you guys about my friend Al? A couple of times.
1:00.0	Al who? Albino. How about Anna?
1:04.4	Anna who? Anaconda.
1:06.2	Brock?
1:07.6	Brock who?
1:08.6	Brokley.
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