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20 “If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, 21 but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.
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Exposition of Exodus 21:20-21: How Slave Beaters Are To Be Treated
August 3, 2009 at 10:20 pm 
Daniel Fincke 
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Hello fella’s.
First of all, Jesus said to love thy neighbor..this means all people, including African’s! It was the African people themselves who sold their own kind to the west as slaves for profit.
It was NOT condoned in the NT. God is a just God. He does not have preferences based on skin color.
TY
Actually, slavery IS condoned in the New Testament. Paul writes in Ephesians 6:5, “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”
And even if the New Testament did not condone slavery, so what? That would not make the God of the Bible, who was also supposedly the same unchanging God in the Old Testament and the New Testament, a “just God” if he instituted slavery (as he explicitly did in the passage explicated above) in the Old Testament. The (imaginary) reversal you (falsely) claim is in the New Testament does not make the Old Testament any less wicked and the God attested to in that Old Testament any less wicked and unjust.
And slavery is wrong even if it’s not based on “skin color”.
And referring to the Africans as “selling their own kind” is really crude. We’re all the same kind, humankind.