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Subject: A quick point about slavery and the like

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Date Posted: 08/ 1/02 5:52pm
In reply to: Biff 's message, "Keep lookin'" on 08/ 1/02 2:19pm

>Of course. As long as they don't die. One of my slaves
>scared me once. After I gave him a particularly good
>whippin', he laid there in a coma for four days! I
>thought I was in for it that time.
>
>Forgive my sarcasm. I've seen the slavery card played
>before, and it just doesn't hold much weight with me.
>It's a strictly cultural reference, almost equivalent
>to saying: "Everybody in the Bible wore sandals, so
>wearing shoes must be a sin." True the Bible does not
>prohibit slavery, but I contend that slavery was held
>in a much different context in that culture than in
>ours.

As I think I've said before, if God wrote this book, I would think he could make it transcend cultural boundaries. If men wrote it, then of course it would be inextricably bound to the culture(s) in which it was written. It often seems to me that the Bible is like silly putty... it can be shaped into anything people want it to be. It's God's perfect message to mankind until it says something that a given person doesn't like, after which that part of the Bible becomes "cultural" or "symbolic."

Ben

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Things Biff hates about the Bible	Biff	08/ 2/02 2:48pm
Things Ben likes about Biff -- Ben, 08/ 3/02 1:22pm Merci -- Biff, 11/10/02 9:26pm Things Damoclese likes about the Bible -- Damoclese, 08/ 4/02 11:34pm Read a little bit more about Queen Elizabeth I -- Mredd, 08/14/02 7:23pm Not as far apart as we think? -- Biff, 11/ 3/02 9:33pm