Welcome once again. This is Amy Holland, Greg Kokel, and you're listening to Stand to Reason's hashtag STR-esque podcast. And this is the podcast where we collect your questions. You send

them on X with a hashtag STR ask or you go to our website at STR.org and you send us your

questions and then we try to respond as well as we can. Is that sum it up for you, Greg?

That's good.

Okay.

Here's a question from Vonny.

Bonnie?

V-O-N-I.

Okay.

It seems like the Bible teaches you how to be a proper slave owner rather than stop it, give them freedom.

Yep.

Next.

Well, there are some insight in that observation, but there has to be a clarification here that's made.

And I actually make this clarification in street smarts.

So I'm just going to jaw from this chapter where I deal with, and the heading here is lost in translation, but most Christians, and most people actually are not aware that in their

modern translations, the word slave and servant come from the exact same Hebrew word, most of the time.

And what's curious about this is that the translations have changed over the years.

So I got this insight from PJ Williams, the New Testament scholar that we've mentioned in the past over at Cambridge.

And I heard a presentation that he gave, well, it was a number of years ago in Hungary, actually.

And he was talking about this particular word and how prior to the 20th century, the advent of the 20th century, this Hebrew word

that's anglicized E, B, E, D, so it looks like Ebed, but I think it's pronounced Avad or something

like that. In any event, this word was almost always translated servant or bond servant. In fact, I did my own analysis and I looked

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