condemned in Exo 21:16. The latter is clearly condoned by God. First, there are two primary categories: Natives and Foreigners. For natives, Exo 21:2-6, 22:1-4, Lev 25:39, and Deut 15:12-15 explain that slavery was imposed upon some for crime or voluntarily entered into as a financial safety net in a case of a financial emergency. Exodus 21:16 strongly condemns kidnapping a man and bringing him into a slave market when it says, He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death. The duration of the lawful, native slavery was only 6 years, not hereditary.
             However, with regard to foreigners, in Lev 24:22, 25:35-37, 44-46 and Exo 21: 20-27, we see that the terms were a bit different and the slaves could be held hereditarily. Now God did forbid cruelty and severity in slave holding as defined by Exo 21:20-27. Some may object that the beatings in Exo 21 are not uncruel in themselves. This is only because we live in a very lawless and effeminate society that this seems cruel. Beatings are required for the CHILDREN of slave holders (Prov 23:13), much more for his slaves. Now to the New Testament. First, 1 Tim 1:9-10 repeats Moses' prohibition of man stealing. Paul repeats Moses' commands to treat slaves with justice and without cruelty in Col 4:1 Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven, but he never prohibits the institution itself, and so far from revolution he states, "Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters", Eph 6:5. I DID NOT WRITE THOSE SCRIPTURES! IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM YOU ARE NO FOLLOWER OF ABRAHAM AND MOSES! YOU ARE A COMMUNIST. THAT IS GOD'S LAW. WHO ARE YOU TO REPLY AGAINST GOD? As I have shown in my Did The White People Of This Original Colony Of Virginia Kidnap Africans To Make Them Their Slaves? my ancestors in Virginia did not send a single vessel to Africa to kidnap sl...