falah wrote on Jan 25
th, 2012 at 11:59am:
Every verse presented by falah is a misrepresentation.
In that the 'slaves' and 'sex slaves' which falah presents, are
BOND-SERVANTS.
A BOND-SERVANT is a person
who cells himself into service as a servant.
Why?
Because they or their family, are poor, or because they and their family have fallen upon hard times.
So, they 'cell themselves', as servants, to wealthy neighbours - for a period of years.
e.g. #1,
falah presents.....
The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery. How can anyone think it is moral to cell your own daughter as a sex slave? When a man cells 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 cell 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 leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
Yadda presents the same verse.....Exodus 21:7
And if a man cell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to cell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Dictionary;
maidservant = = a female domestic servant.Dictionary;
betroth = = formally engaged to be married.ie.g. #2,
falah presents.....
The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock. 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.b.
".....You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way."
Leviticus 25:46
Yadda presents.....But then, what does
the VERY NEXT VERSE,
which was omitted by falah present ????
Leviticus 25:47
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and cell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Those verses are talking about
bond-servants.
i.e.
People who cell themselves into service, as a servant.And those verses [Leviticus 25:47-48] reveal that there was no prohibition in a 'stranger' who was living among the Hebrews, making a Hebrew man his 'slave', that is,
his bond-servant.
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The reality of the social mores [i.e. the laws] of the Hebrews, is very different to the implication that falah is presenting.Why so?
That is, why do you think that falah is misrepresenting the social mores [i.e. the laws] of the Hebrews?
Would the fact that
the ancient Hebrews were the progenitors of the Jewish people have anything to do with falah's misrepresentation of the mores [i.e. the laws] of the ancient Hebrew people ?
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My advice.....
If you wish to understand what the OT Bible truly presents, then you should read and try to study the OT Bible for yourself.
As a person living in the 21 century, it is likely that you may not understand the dynamics of social circumstances that are described in the OT Bible, or if you do understand the social circumstances that are described, you may object strongly with the circumstances that are described.
The mores and customs and the violence which the OT Bible revealed and which are spoken of [in the books of Moses] will seem 'foreign' to a person living in the 21 century,
.......
precisely because the OT Bible was written for
the circumstances of people who were alive
3,400 years ago.
That was a time when [very large] societies of men, living together were something of a new 'convention', and it was a time when brigands [large predatory bands of armed robbers] were still very common.
It was a time when predation by one group of [stronger] people, upon another group of [weaker] people was common.
Dictionary;
predation, predator = =
1 an animal that preys on others.
2 a person who exploits others. a company that tries to take over another.It is a type of predation that is presented in this Koran as 'lawful', for example;
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."
Koran 9.29
Regards examples of the 'lawful' predation
today, by one group of people, upon another group of people;
See.....
Kuwait: "Female political activist" calls for legalizing sex slavery to protect men from "adultery or corruption"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/kuwait-female-political-activist-calls-for-leg...And;
"Egyptian imam: "When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her" "
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/egyptian-imam-when-i-want-a-sex-slave-i-just-g...