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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You can beat them to within an inch of their life and suffer no consequence
You actually can beat slaves to death according to Exodus 21:20-21
They can actually be beaten to death so long as they survive a day or two. So if it takes a day to succumb to their injuries, cool. If they're beaten to immediate death, then the Bible states that it is not okay
