Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to Plodcast, episode 57.

Good to have you. Good to have you good to have you here so a little while a few weeks ago I wrote

a blog post for my blog blog blog on a wife deciding to leave her husband.

And I, it was a fairly long letter

and it had to do with principles of justice on the one hand and on the other hand a particular

understanding what Paul urges in first in first Corinthians. So what happens in the Old Testament there's a law that says that basically if a runaway slave

shows up on your doorstep, the law was you are not permitted to The law prohibited returning a runaway slave.

The law prohibited returning a runaway slave.

Now, incidentally, this addresses our own. Now incidentally this

this addresses our own American history which tells you for all the people who

argued scripturally that well the Bible allows for slavery the Bible allows

for slavery which under certain specified conditions it did.

If the Supreme Court in the Dread Scott case had been arguing biblically, if they'd been reasoning biblically if they'd been reasoning biblically they would have

determined that the Bible says that when a slave runs away you're not permitted to

return that slave.

Now, this is interesting because the Bible requires in many, in multiple areas

that before you can admit a charge against someone,

before you can accuse someone of murder,

before you can accuse them of rape, or whatever,

you need two or three witnesses.

You need independent confirmation

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