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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It's also a long, complicated subject about how slavery was actually abolished but that has no bearing on the subject at hand which is that if the Bible is to be held as timeless guide to morality then the flat immorality of slavery which is condoned therein must be sufficiently addressed.
Yes, the Bible contains instructions for chattel slavery as well as slavery which would be more recognizable as indentured servitude. There were different rules for Hebrew slaves and foreign slaves.
