-All from the NASB translation of the Bible.
I love these new translations, both this one and the New International Version, that basically exist just to justify arguments like these. Selectively edited to substantiate modern interpretations that are then claimed to be the clear and direct word of god. What rubbish! Even the King James version wouldn't substantiate this argument, and that one was just as edited and political as these current ones. Just complete nonsense. If you can't support it from the oldest and thus least edited version available, the your argument holds no water.
How does the bible suppot slavery did not the people who god saved from servitude weren't they slaves . Did Mosses not say let my people go .
Yeah, god said that Egyptians couldn't hold Hebrews as slaves. Then, when those Hebrews reconquered the area they claimed, they enslaved the people who lived there. The bible is fine with slavery, just not of your own kind of people. Race-based slavery, as practiced here in the United States, was completely supported by Christian theology and that theology was frequently invoked to justify it.
Their work consists of saying that because prominent people in the Bible had multiple wives that it negates the notion that marriage is for one man and one woman. However, in Corinthians paul talks about a man having his own wife (singular) and a woman having her own husband (singular).
Matthew, Mark both talk about man and woman, both singular, being one flesh. You cannot introduce a third party and still be one flesh, it doesn't work that way.
Because Roman law, which the writers of those texts lived under, outlawed polygamy. Hebrew (biblical) law was just fine with it.
Genesis, God said that he will make man a helper, singular yet again.
So what? God didn't create any children either, yet children aren't contrary to god's plan. There's nothing to support the idea that the initial state of creation was meant to be stagnant.
In the OT, the men who had more than one wife, it always cause their down-fall. Look at Soloman, David, Jacob, and so on. It was never condoned or encouraged by God.
This is entirely false. God supported all of the polygamous activities of the patriarchs. Jacob thrived with his multiple wives, never suffering any consequences because of polygamy. If anything, it was his lack of commitment to polygamy, favoring one wife and her sons over the others, that brought him down. Solomon's downfall was his greed, in succumbing to avarice and amassing wealth and wives, not that he had more than one wife. and David never came to ruin because of their wives. David, meanwhile, suffered for adultery, but not polygamy. You're just making things up.
Or, the civilizations were being purged of sin.
And genocide isn't a sin? How about that "do not murder" bit? Doesn't that conflict with raping and killing conquered civilians?
