PLMN046 - Many Ancients Thought Slaves Weren't Evil, but Simple; and That Slavery Was a Mercy

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	Fahliemen
0:03.0	Fahliemen, yeah,
0:04.0	Fahlemen, yeah.
0:18.0	Fah liven, yeah. Fah liven, yeah.
0:21.7	Fire leaving.
0:23.6	Yeah.
0:26.8	For leaving, yeah.
0:29.2	Hey, everybody.
0:29.7	It's Matt.
0:31.3	This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast.
0:34.4	And do you remember when we used to have fun on this program?
0:37.9	And we'd play goofy music at the end.
0:40.5	And there would be fart jokes.
0:47.3	And we would talk about movies and video games and laugh about things. But then do you remember when I, after that, I started talking about the horrifying
0:52.4	practice of slavery in the ancient world. And it was hard to make
0:57.8	fart jokes work with that, I remember. Look, this is bleak material that we're covering.
1:04.3	And for those of you, maybe I haven't been around for a couple of days. This is what we're doing.
1:07.6	We're trying to make sense of what the New Testament says about slavery and what's
1:13.6	going on with the situation in the book of Philemon. We're trying to make sense of what Paul's
1:17.4	talking about here at the end of Colossians in Colossians chapter 3 when he talks about
1:21.3	slaves and masters. I guess tacitly we're trying to tackle the question of a common modern
1:27.4	criticism of Christianity
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