Please support The Spanner Trust    [other banners]

	SD! : SD! Wiki : Bible Slavery : history This article is part of the SD! Wiki hosted by Seek Discipline! This is the version from 14 Mar 08, 10:51 AM. The full history of this article will show any more recent versions. Bible Slavery Slavery is an important and consistent theme throughout the bible beginning with a prediction to Abraham that his people would spend 400 years in slavery. Abraham's great grandson Joesph is sold by his brothers and transported to Egypt by Arab cousins so that in slavery the Israel tribes develop. The next book of the Torah/Law begins with Moses leading his people out of this slavery but the Law endorses and makes full provision for slavery to continue. In the New Testament slavery is a ever present cultural reality and writers do not in any way challange this reality. Rather St Paul calls himself a "slave". Jesus is said to have "learned obediance" Heb5:8 and St Peter advises aspiring leaders to "humble themselves" 1Peter 5:6. While religion members are to "submit" Heb 13:17 Most of the founders of Christianity experienced slavery or captivity especially in the early centuries. More recently an English slave captain, and once himself a slave of a woman; John Newton preaching in London began an a Slave Abolition movement and this created considerable tensions especially in USA as this matter was debated from the bible by Christians. The Bible can be interpreted differently especially as civilisational changes take place in human culture. One recent example of this was The Family (Children of God) who used 1Cor 6:20 to sanction and develop the sexual prostitution of family members in the early 80s. This article is published under the terms of the GFDL. People with profiles on Seek Discipline! can improve this article: see the SD! Wiki help page for details.