What the Bible Says about Slavery | Joshua Bowen |Sunday Gathering Houston Oasis Feb 26 2023 Promo

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Main Talk: What The Bible Says About Slavery
Speaker : Dr. Joshua Bowen
Music: The Mighty Orq
Main Talk:
Are you curious about what the Bible actually says about slavery? Assyriologist Dr. Joshua Bowen will walk us through the eye-opening reality of the practice of slavery in the Bible.
Many online apologists work very hard to downplay the reality of slavery as presented in the Old Testament. It is regularly asserted that slavery was nothing like what we saw in the antebellum South, but was more like a job or owning a credit card. And, after all, the message of the Bible is one of liberation and freedom from slavery! How could the Bible condone - much less endorse - such a practice?
We will look at the various laws that govern the practice of slavery in the Old Testament, demonstrating that it was not simply akin to having a job in the modern age. We will also examine the idea that God was "meeting people where they were", slowly nudging them toward a higher sense of morality and the abolition of slavery in the New Testament. In the end, you will know what the Old Testament laws say about slavery, and what - if anything - the New Testament did to bring about its abolition.
Speaker Bio:
Bowen is an Assyriologist and UA-camr with extensive training in the languages of the Ancient Near East. His first publication, Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners, aimed to make the world's oldest written language available to everyone. He is an enthusiastic communicator of academic information, and works hard to make the ancient world accessible to non-specialists.
Musician Bio:
Roots music at its finest; with an arresting and nuanced voice, and a singular guitar style, The Mighty Orq solo or with his band is powerfully soulful.