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Originally Posted by batair
How does any of what you have posted in misdirection and deflections make biblical slavery moral?
I think you missed the whole point of the Exodus.
You should go back to Genesis.
Joseph was sold by his own brothers into slavery.
It took God's personal intervention to get the Hebrews out. The Hebrews were slaves
yet they kept multiplying. The Egyptians got scared the Hebrews would grow large in number and take over. So the Pharoah decided to systematically kill all the firstborn boys and directed the midwives to do it.
The midwives refused to do it but deceived Pharoah into thinking they were obeying him by saying the Hebrew women weren't having the babies with them they were having them out in the fields.
So God leads the Hebrews out of slavery. He does it with power because the Pharoah isn't going to give in to a bunch of slaves who are beneath him even when he knows God is with the Hebrews. Pharoah's own sorcerers tell him it's God with Moses.
After leading them out they make a covenant to be God's People yet they keep getting led back into slavery through their own actions.
This is a repeating pattern throughout the OT.
The only one that can break the pattern is Jesus Christ.
Read Deuteronomy 28: the 2 paths. One breaks the pattern into slavery. That is the pattern of obedience to God. The other pattern of disobedience leads directly into the slavery of sin. Sin is like a law of physics it always leads to negative consequences sooner or later.