Blues Man
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I hate to tell you this but Christianity is a religion based on human sacrifice. It stopped at one but it was a human sacrifice nonetheless.What about slavery? The Christian god did not say slavery was a moral sin so would you condone slavery today?
You need to look at the Bible in context. For example, when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son to him, on the surface, this looks immoral and insane. However, if you consider the fact that all pagan religions during that time involved child sacrifice, you would realize that Abraham would not have been shocked by the request. No, it was just business as usual. However, God stops Abraham from sacrificing his son, sending the message to him and the rest of the world that the God of Abraham was different than the pagan gods.
Put in this context, the request was a moral one so as to stop future child infanticide.
As for slavery, what does the Bible say about slavery? In ancient times, slavery was business as usual. But like child sacrifice, God attempted to bring the world up out of slavery as well as child sacrifice to the gods. First, we see Moses delivering the people of Israel from slavery, a clear indication that God views slavery as bad. God then tells the to honor the Sabbath, even slaves within the Hebrew nation, a clear indication that even slaves needed one full day of rest to contemplate their existence rather than being worked into the grave. God then allowed provisions for slaves to be freed about every 7 years, implying again that slavery is bad. Slavery from a Biblical view was a way for people to survive when down and out. You had no tribe to help sustain you in hard times, or family, then you worked for food for a number of years until you were freed and could figure things out. It was not like slavery in the South where people were treated like glorified apes and worked into the grave because they were racially inferior.
So you admit that your all knowing god could not envision a world without slavery? Your all powerful god could not abolish slavery when we mere mortals managed to?