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Harrie
Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:55 am

Re: The slavery and the Bible dilemma
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That is pretty clear:

You both think it is good to be some other human his property for ever and to be the inheritance of your owners children.

And that is indeed the only correct position if God is all powerful.


If God is good and all powerful, then slavery MUST indeed be good.


Although I personally would like to add that I would hate to be the property of another human being and that I have always assumed, to this day, that all other people would hate that too. I still assume that most people do NOT like to be owned by others, and that is why I am still opposed to slavery. I think slavery is wrong: a human being must be free to decide to work for someone or not. I think human beings should never be somebody else's possession.
And therefore I think that if God exists and He is all powerful, then He must be bad. If He exists and is truly good, than He can not be all powerful. 


Now, from there we can explore further, if we want to.

For example: 

God thinks that women are worth less than men and must submit to men, so that MUST be good too.
God thinks you must beat fools and children, so that MUST be good.
God thinks you may sell your daughter to be a slave, so that MUST be good.

Etc...