Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from?
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The New Testament -- which is much more current than Leviticus -- says that we must follow the laws put down by our government leaders.\n\nOne of those laws is that slavery is abolished.  \n\nSo no, you can't own any slaves.   I hope this puts a stop to your smart-aleck questions.
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I think it may be 1 Samuel 28:7-25 that you are referring to? (The spirit of Samuel (?) was summoned)
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if u a man of ur word help the woman u promised....then u will truly be blessed
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No and if you listen to ignorant people who will just quote the bible at you--then ask them this.--The bible also says that a man should not cut the sides of his hair or trim his beard (Its in Leviticus) It also says it is okay to kill your slaves. Does that make any sense?!? God made us all who we are accept yourself for who you are and enjoy life. It is an adventure and you only get one shot.
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Read "Roots" by Alex Haley. You will learn alot about slaves and how much they were bought an sold for over the course of many generations.
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No- this is a bunch of male crap. Anyone who uses religion to control or enslave someone, should be horsewhipped. You should be a strong, independant person, whether you are a male or female. "god" didn't say those things, men did.
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Owning a slave is not a sin, it's how to treat them that could be.
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The story is that in the days of slavery many were whipped to force them to work or perform tasks. Thus the skin would be flayed from their backs. If you were a slave who did as he were told you wouldn't be whipped although your companion may be, hence the phrase.
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no.\nMat 7:12  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them:
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OF COURSE ! HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF WHITE SLAVERY WHERE WOMEN ARE KIDNAPPED AND FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION ? THAT DOES IN FACT GO ON IN THE WORLD .
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This does not apply to anyone during the current times. It applied to the Old Testament people, but now we are in the New Testament. Instead we are commanded to BE the servants for other people, but not in slavery but more in humbleness, trying to help the person out.
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"Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.  Colossians 3:22-25
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Very few because there isn't any documentation of slaves and what they have are bills of sale. You would have to be living to be able to prove anything.
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I don't know about the bible but have you read the quran properly. Similar verses are present.\n\nSura al-Baqarah 2:223  Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will, and send (good deeds) before you for your souls, and fear Allah, and know that ye will (one day) meet Him. Give glad tidings to believers, (O Muhammad)\n\nSura an-Nisa' 4:34  ...As to those women On whose part ye fear Disloyalty and ill-conduct Admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); But if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For God is Most High, Great (above you all).\n\nIn the translation of the above verse the word 'lightly' was added by the translator Yusufali. The original verse does not contain any such (lightly) word. Yusufali was so embarrassed that he added 'lightly' to make the verse more civilized.\n\nSura an-Nisa 4:24  And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hand possess.\n\nYou say in modern world there are no such things as the possession of the right hands. Think again. Quran is eternal. The world may change but Quran cannot change.\n\nIs not any woman that opposes any Islamic ruling waging a war against Allah? Are not the Mullahs fighting the enemies of Allah? So, when they defeat the enemy (captured rebel woman) she becomes the possession of the right hands (captives) of them. And Allah has permitted them to have sexual intercourse with these captive women.\n\nTafsir of this ayat take from Mawdudi’s The Meaning of the Qur’an:\nBook 10, page 137, footnote no. 94\n\n“This verse explains why one is permitted to have conjugal relations with one’s slave-girls besides the wedded wives, and there is no restriction on their number. The same thing has also been stated in Surah An-Nisa:3; Al-Mu’minun:6; and Al-Ma’arij:30. In all these verses the slave-girls have been mentioned as a separate class from the wedded wives, and conjugal relations with them have been permitted. Moreover, verse 3 of Surah An-Nisa lays down the number of the wives as four, but neither has Allah fixed the number of the slave-girls in that verse nor made any allusion to their number in the other relevant verses. Here, of course, the Holy Prophet is being addressed and told: ‘It is no more lawful for you to take other women in marriage, or divorce any of the present wives and take another wife in her stead; slave-girls, however, are lawful.’ This shows no restriction has been imposed in respect of slave-girls.\n\nTafsir of Mawdudi, Book2, page 112, footnote 44:\n\n“That is, ‘Those women, who became prisoners of war, while their husbands are left behind in the War Zone, are not unlawful because their marriage ties have been broken by the fact that they have come into the Islamic Zone. It is lawful to marry such women and make them wives, and it is also lawful for those, in whose possession they are, to have sexual relations with them.\n\nMenstruation is an illness (disease) \n\nSura al-Baqarah 2:222 They question thee (O Muhammad) concerning menstruation. Say it is an illness, so let women alone at such times and go not in unto them till they are cleansed. (Translation by Pickthall)\n\nthe prophet said that majority of women will be in hell.  \n\nNarrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet said " I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful" (Sahih Bukhari 1:28)
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There's no way I'd ever be any man's slave. If an older man loved me and treated me good well than I'd definitely be with him. Respect and love is vital for any relationship. If a man treats you as a slave there is no respect there.
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This an article that I am copying from a website. But, you have to differentiate between the original Torah and Injil, what became the Bible of today, and the original Scriptures, which has delibrately been lost and corrupt by early jews and christians. As you can see from the text, it is clear, the languge and the level of barbarity can't be attributed to a Merciful Compassionate God. The link below may answer your questions with regards to Islam. Peace.\nhttp://www.understanding-islam.org/related/search.asp?searchstr=Slavery&lookin=1&x=0&y=0\n\nText: Slavery in the Bible\n \n    Except for murder, slavery has got to be one of the most immoral things a person can do.  Yet slavery is rampant throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.  The Bible clearly approves of slavery in many passages, and it goes so far as to tell how to obtain slaves, how hard you can beat them, and when you can have sex with the female slaves.\n \n    Many Jews and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants.  Many translations of the Bible use the word "servant", "bondservant", or "manservant" instead of "slave" to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is.  While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn't mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock.\n \n    The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock.\n \n    However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.  You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.  You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.  You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.  (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)\n \n    The following passage describes how the Hebrew slaves are to be treated.\n \n    If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years.  Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.  If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year.  But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him.  If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.  But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children.  I would rather not go free.'  If he does this, his master must present him before God.  Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl.  After that, the slave will belong to his master forever.  (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)\n \n    Notice how they can get a male Hebrew slave to become a permanent slave by keeping his wife and children hostage until he says he wants to become a permanent slave.  What kind of family values are these?\n \n    The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery.  How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave?\n \n    When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.  If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.  But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.  And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.  If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.  If he fails in any of these three ways, she may
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In the Old Testament it says\nLeviticus 18:22\nThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.\n\nThen in the New estament it says:\n1 Corinthians 6:9\nKnow ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,\n\nDoes that do it for you?   Jim