Johnny Skeptic

Consider the following from another thread:

A much more accurate assessement is as follows:

Item 1

Exodus 21:2-4 (NIV)

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free."

Item 2

Exodus 21:12-14 (NIV)

"Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate. But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death."

Item 3

Exodus 21:20-21 (NIV)

"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."

Item 4

Leviticus 25:44-45 (NIV)

"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly."

Regarding item 1, please note that after six years, a Hebrew slave gained his freedom, but item 4 shows that slaves from other nations could be forced to be slaves for life. Part of item 4 says "You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly." That is a good example of racial bigotry, but what else should one expect from a race of people who appointed themselves as God's chosen people. Chosen for what?

Regarding item 2, if a Hebrew deliberately killed another Hebrew, he was put to death, but item 3 shows that if a Hebrew deliberately killed a slave, he was not put to death, only punished, but not punished at all if the slave recovered in a day or two. That is more proof of racial bigotry.

sugarhitman

oh how the skeptics love the corrupt NIV.

Julio

The apostle Paul instructed the slaves to obey their masters in EVERYTHING (Col 3:22).
Preachers say that’s no longer sacred scripture!…
It was divinely inspired for those days…
It went out of fashion by the nineteenth century!!…

Julio

Yeah. The NIV says in Romans 2:4 that God is TOLERANT. Thanks a lot.

Johnny Skeptic

Please explain what you mean.

I will be happy to use any other translation that you wish.

sugarhitman

Paul also told Masters to serve slaves.....Just as Jesus taught.

Johnny Skeptic

I will be happy to use any other translation that you wish.

Well, er, uh....... Why must you embarrass yourself? You are one of the worst prepared fundies that I have ever debated. All that you usually do is quote the Bible. That is not discussing, it is preaching. Any Muslim or Hindu could come to this forum and do the same thing. Would you like that?

Julio

Well, the term “tolerant” is not found in any version based on the Textus Receptus, which means God is NOT to be tolerant.
Otherwise, if God were tolerant, he would not be God! A tolerant God had to be MIGHTY tolerant, or Omni-tolerant, which would be a serious joke about the Almighty.
But think: how could God be tolerant? Therefore, the translators play around with words to satisfy their clientele. The NIV says in the last paragraph of the Preface that it falls short of its goals. And that means: we the translators will IMPROVE it later!… be patient, give us time, thanks…

Julio

Sorry, but Paul was smoking hashish that time... he used to contradict himself a lot. One time he CURSED everybody who would teach another gospel then that he received via a private revelation [with no witnesses of any kind]; and the next he said "Bless; curse not." He was insane... you cannot trust an individual who takes drugs to receive the “spirit”…

Johnny Skeptic

I will be happy to use any other translation that you wish.

What version of the Bible did Chinese people use in 50 A.D.?

What version of the Bible did native American Indians use in 1500 A.D.?

What version of the Bible do people use who do not know how to read?