How can we take the Bible as an unchanging guide to morality when it condones slavery?

You can murder men and women and keep the virgin girls as your slaves.
You can beat them to within an inch of their life and suffer no consequence.
You can keep them forever and pass them on to your children as your property.

The bible says this is ok...and we all know it's not. So how can you trust it as a moral guide?

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RedBaron · M

Don’t.

Pikachu

@RedBaron

Don't keep slaves?
Agreed. Too bad the dudes writing some of the OT books didn't feel that way lol

RedBaron · M

@Pikachu I meant don’t take the bible as an unchanging guide to morality.

Like any other written work, the bible doesn’t change. People, cultures, and times do.

Pikachu

@RedBaron

I agree with that too. It's a collection of rules and societal rules written by humans for humans at a specific time in a specific culture.

RedBaron · M

@Pikachu Obviously.

Pikachu

@RedBaron

Not so obvious to some lol