Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour

podcast and we're gonna pick up right where we left up yesterday talking

about the differences between slavery in the more recent past, the last few

hundred years, the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery in the classical world, which was also bad, but bad in different ways.

And there's no escaping the fact that the institution of slavery is assumed throughout

the text of the Bible.

It doesn't mean that it's necessarily affirmed throughout the text of the Bible.

And certainly the abuses and evils and violence that we see associated with slavery over the centuries,

it's incompatible with the values of the kingdom.

We're going to have a tough time understanding what the Bible means every time the notion of

servanthood or slavery comes up in the text if we imagine slavery in the Antibellum South

because again while both were horrible practices they were different flavors of

slavery and I guess my assumption moving forward in the argument I suppose do I make arguments in these episodes?

I don't know if you count it that way if we're gonna use that language of the argument I'm going to make here is that

the Antibellum South was worse. So what are the differences between more recent

slavery and slavery back in the day? In the classical Greek world for example it doesn't look like there was a

racial component at least primarily to slavery that wasn't the division between

slaves and masters like it was in the Antibilum South. It looks like the division

there had to do with the mind. There was this notion of moral deficiency, an

inability to think morally or ethically or philosophically about the natural world

and what makes a person a person that slaves had that masters did not and so it was

their duty in society to supervise and provide some sort of

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