What Does the Bible Actually Say About Slavery?

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  • One of the most common arguments against the Bible concerns its stance on "slavery." At first glance, the word "slavery" seems identical to our modern understanding, particularly the tragic results of the Atlantic slave trade. However, after some research, it becomes clear that the Bible is discussing two entirely different concepts. The type of slavery seen in the Atlantic Slave Trade is never endorsed by God. In fact, whenever something like that is mentioned, it is described as evil in the sight of God. God freed the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt. Watch the rest of the video to discover what scripture actually refers to when it uses terms like "slave."
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  • @LivingWaters
    @LivingWaters  Місяць тому +44

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    • @bernardclements
      @bernardclements Місяць тому +2

      Free Will, not the will of God.

    • @Tombot67
      @Tombot67 Місяць тому +4

      Ray doesnt repentance happen the moment you first believe? Going from unbelief to belief. I cant imagine an unbeliever repenting of sins without first believing. Once I first believed the Gospel then automatically I felt sorrow for my sins and wanted to turn from them... not to clean myself up but because I felt terrible now knowing that I had sinned against God. But I know that me feeling sorrow or turning from my sins is not what saves me... its only trusting and believing in the atoning blood of Jesus. His death, buriel and resurrection.

    • @melissaculpepper7663
      @melissaculpepper7663 Місяць тому +3

      The arrogant do not take the time to sincerely seek God and know Him. Therefore, they lack wisdom.

    • @joshuawoodin
      @joshuawoodin Місяць тому +1

      Hey ray, what is the text you would use for God gives all people a freewill ? I totally agree, I am a provisionist and this text that you would point to, would give more evidence against the calvinistic side who says freewill is an illusion.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +2

      @@joshuawoodin you have the freedom to do whatever it is in your will to do. And your will is in bondage to sin, doing only evil continually. Only upon God converting the will do you believe

  • @joeyd7728
    @joeyd7728 Місяць тому +110

    When he said “ thank you, I needed this” it got me choked up. You know Ray got the message through. God bless, brother🙏🏼

    • @2kostasd
      @2kostasd Місяць тому +8

      Yes, grandma's prayers will be answered! 🙏

    • @fawnleegreene7688
      @fawnleegreene7688 Місяць тому +6

      He heard Ray and the truth of the Gospel and a loving God!

    • @justingary5322
      @justingary5322 22 дні тому

      Brother Ray Comfort and Living Waters ministry videos teaching biblical context. AMEN 🙏 ❤️. Atheism ain't got nothing new or better to offer than the very religious beliefs it's critical of so it's hypocrisy at it's finest 😂. Hello this is for all you Atheists, unbelievers and skeptics. I'm going to address a few misconceptions and lies about God's Character and His Word. The Bible doesn't support chattel slavery or anything else Immoral. Ok so Atheists and unbelievers say God is either Immoral, incompetent or not responsible so let's see what The Scriptures actually say. God revealed himself and created a nation in a real, historical context. It was a world with a slave-based economy, with city states often at war with each other, with polygamous marriages to ensure the continuation of family lines. The laws of the Old Testament regulate this behaviour. Slaves are to be treated humanely (Exodus 21:11). They are given rights and not seen as mere possessions. Hebrew slaves were able to buy their own freedom. Human trafficking is condemned (Exodus 21:16). In contrast to the law code of Babylon, Old Testament Israel was a light to the nations. The Old Testament law and narratives do not stand alone. Jesus is now the best example of what we read. So the moral teaching of the Bible cannot be summarised by a quote taken out of context from the Old Testament to demonize God and His Word. Slavery was permitted in Old Testament law but it was regulated by God giving the Israelites instructions on how to fairly and humanely treat their slaves (it was like indentured servitude where someone could work for you if they owed debts or needed income not cruel like chattel slavery). God allowed the people of Israel to own slaves since they themselves has already experienced over 400 years of generations of Egyptian slavery and knew how inhumane it was to be beaten, overworked and taxed so God set them apart from other nations and cultures around them by giving them a fair way to treat their slaves since slavery had already existed in the world but it doesn't mean God condoned it just used it for His Will to bring Good And in the light of the whole scriptural teaching, we find the reasons for its ultimate abolition (Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1-3; Philemon 15-16 and Galatians 3:28). The Word of God provided the moral standard against slavery in the Roman Empire and against the slave trade in the New World.
      But what of genocide or holy war in the book of Joshua? Several things could be pointed out. The use of warfare in the ancient world did not always mean literal total destruction, even when events are described in such terms. Furthermore, the book of Joshua does not describe a genocide. It is not a race who are being wiped out, as in genocide, but a religious practice which was often appalling and degrading. Those who repent (like Rahab from Jericho or Ruth) are not destroyed but become part of Israel. It is not the racial group that is in view but their "detestable practices".
      However, after all is said, we must still acknowledge that God brought judgment on the nations of Canaan. It is not our place as believers isn't to sugar-coat the Bible. For some skeptics, this is enough to make God a moral monster. But the fact is that Jesus continued to affirm that God is a Judge who will bring a future judgment on all peoples and all nations. God’s judgment will be just. The list of Old Testament stories rejected by critics often leads to a similar dismissal of the New Testament teaching of Jesus on the existence of hell.
      After all, what was the Flood of Genesis or the conquest of Joshua if not a glimpse of future judgment? Hell does not demonstrate cruelty on God’s part, but it does demonstrate His Holiness and our moral accountability. Perhaps this is the real reason many people rail against the God of the Bible? It is not that they think He is a moral monster, but that they are afraid He is a moral Judge, and that has implications for our behaviour now. God is an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being and we as His creatures have Eternal souls and spirits so the punishment for our sins against Him must therefore also be Eternal but so must the reward for righteousness that's why He sent His Son Jesus to live a perfectly righteous and sinless Life (which none of us could ever possibly expect to do) suffer the humiliating and torturous death of crucifixion to shed His Own Blood willingly so that all who willingly accept His gift of salvation by grace through faith in Him will be saved and given Eternal life because that's what God wants is for us to willingly accept His gift of salvation and choose life. Exodus 21:20-21 literally speaks about capital punishment befalling anyone who mistreats their slaves so yes people are taking Scripture out of context to demonize God who literally promises that slaves who are mistreated under someone else's authority is to be avenged. When we hear the word “slavery” we think of innocent human beings, kept prisoner for life, having no rights under law and so reduced to animals. This is clearly immoral because it is unjust: the slave has done nothing to deserve the treatment.
      The situation described as “slavery” in the Bible was nothing like this. It is more accurately described as one of indentured servitude. Many “slaves” were indentured servants, working for a term of years
      Some other “slaves” were prisoners. There were no prisons. Prisoners had to work to live like everyone else. Some had life sentences. Some served a term and were released.
      People didn't beat their good slaves but treated them well and protected their assets thus.
      But no matter how rebellious a slave was, you couldn't just beat them to death. And if you knocked out their tooth or damaged their eye then you had to set them free. (Exodus 21:26). God wasn't using what other nations did because He wanted to set His Chosen People of Israel apart from the cruel, inhumane and unjust systems other cultures had so He gave them a fair way to treat their slaves and servants.
      There is a lot of ignorance on this topic which is understandable given the age we live in but it's not the nefarious set up we think of when we think of modern slavery. The question Atheists must ask themselves is how come the Jews aren't being accused of slavery and human trafficking if they're guilty of it in The Bible and why would white slave owners rip out pages from The Old and New Testament Scriptures to justify their owning blacks as slaves if The Bible already justified slavery?

  • @kerrye3601
    @kerrye3601 Місяць тому +44

    I was sitting on my bed and had just shut my laptop and went into a vision. I was in front of a judge I was looking up at him as he was very high up, he suddenly slammed down his gauntlet and yelled GUILTY! With no argument I turned with my head down to walk towards my fate and out of the corner of my eye I saw a bright light when I looked up, I saw Jesus with His arms outstretched and a huge smile on His face. I knew He was there to save me.💗

    • @2l84me8
      @2l84me8 Місяць тому

      What crime did you commit?
      What were you found guilty of?

    • @neckutter1125
      @neckutter1125 Місяць тому +2

      I once had a dream that a hamburger was eating me!

    • @kerrye3601
      @kerrye3601 Місяць тому +1

      @@neckutter1125 That's too deep for me.😅

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest Місяць тому +2

      BEAUTIFUL

    • @bethrowbottom5897
      @bethrowbottom5897 Місяць тому

      @@2l84me8the 10 commandments are God’s moral law and we all have broken that law. We are all guilty and deserve hell. No one is good enough…no one is good but God. This is why Jesus died on the cross. He paid the price so we don’t have to. All we need to do is turn away from sin and put our faith and trust into Jesus. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. He is the only one that can save us from this sinful life.

  • @livenotonevil8279
    @livenotonevil8279 Місяць тому +97

    During the 8 hours I work each day, I'm a bondservant

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому +4

      But you are not a chattel slave, as condoned by God in the Bible.

    • @livenotonevil8279
      @livenotonevil8279 Місяць тому +6

      @@cygnusustus Nor did I imply as much

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому +2

      @@livenotonevil8279
      The issue is about chattel slavery.
      What was the point of bringing up indentured servitude?

    • @tituslaird1265
      @tituslaird1265 Місяць тому +10

      @@cygnusustus
      That is entirely the point. Your definition of chattel slavery is not the Biblical definition or description of slavery.

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому

      @@tituslaird1265
      "That is entirely the point. Your definition of chattel slavery is not the Biblical definition or description of slavery."
      Bzzzz! Sorry bucko. You lose again.
      Chattel slavery is defined as "the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work. Another definition is: "The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude."
      Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery.
      "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
      45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
      46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour."

  • @mrmatias2618
    @mrmatias2618 Місяць тому +20

    Dear Pastor, I really loved the combination of the street and the studio conversation.
    May the Lord continue blessing you.

  • @Sidetrackification
    @Sidetrackification Місяць тому +16

    Of all the situations you've been through, your reaction to it, is directly related to your relationship with Jesus.

  • @LivingWaters
    @LivingWaters  Місяць тому +31

    How would you respond to the claim, "The Bible supports slavery!"?

    • @TimothyC.84
      @TimothyC.84 Місяць тому +8

      Exodus 20 says differently.

    • @lilromeo615videosowner5
      @lilromeo615videosowner5 Місяць тому +7

      Paul's letter to Philemon

    • @isaacmarratt9611
      @isaacmarratt9611 Місяць тому +3

      Indentured servitude

    • @Valkron11
      @Valkron11 Місяць тому

      Well the abolitionists that fought to eradicate slavery were mostly Christians so I guess the Bible must be open to interpretation to have such drastically opposing views 😉

    • @LeRoiBooysen
      @LeRoiBooysen Місяць тому +5

      I probably don't have an accurate or biblical answer but what comes to mind is 'Render unto Ceasar' and 'the god (small g) of this world has blinded'.
      Like Daniel and Joseph, Christians exist and live within a world system at any given time. These systems aren't typically controlled by Christians, no matter how much they'd like to believe they do.
      Whether people like it or not, true believers would probably not treat slaves as merely animals or property but as fellow image bearers.
      These world systems on the other hand, would probably just recapture a freed slave and resell them to a new master.
      If you really think about it, a righteous master would be the safest place for such persons to stay with. They would be protected from the larger society (civilization).
      Just a personal opinion though.

  • @bloomon40
    @bloomon40 Місяць тому +22

    This format works well! Praying for all those hurt by slavery to know the Savior who sets all men free who repent and place their lives in Christ! No truer words “I needed this”.

    • @2l84me8
      @2l84me8 Місяць тому

      So you’re going to pray for the god that permitted slavery to help those hurt by slavery?
      This is your brain on religion.

    • @andrewom679
      @andrewom679 Місяць тому

      ​@@2l84me8Yes.
      Is it OK if we pray for white slaves too?

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому +1

      You mean the same that endorses slavery and gave the Israelitics instructions on how to buy slaves and own them as property. Leviticus 25: 44-46
      And that slave masters can physically abuse slaves as long as they survive within 1-2 days. Exodus 21:20-21

  • @bornfromaboveuk
    @bornfromaboveuk Місяць тому +15

    What a lovely guy! Bless him Lord and bring him into your kingdom 🙏

  • @kristen8329
    @kristen8329 Місяць тому +6

    Anytime this kind of discussion gets brought up I’m going to send the person THIS! Thank you ray comfort.

  • @crazymessup1255
    @crazymessup1255 Місяць тому +43

    Romans 6:15-23 we are slaves to sin or righteousness . Also Isaiah 59 and Titus 3:1-11 . We don't have to defend The Lion He can defend Himself.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      Leviticus 25:44-46

    • @sallylara1102
      @sallylara1102 Місяць тому +3

      In Ephesians Paul uses slavery as a metaphor to describe the human condition, with the choice of being a slave to sin or to God. He believed that slavery is an inevitable part of human existence, and that becoming a slave means giving up status. Paul also identified himself and good Christians as slaves of God, and gave slaves control over their own salvation.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +4

      @@sallylara1102 it's not a metaphor it's a literal condition. A slave does not get to decide what to do for himself but must do what someone else tells him

    • @crazymessup1255
      @crazymessup1255 Місяць тому

      @@cosmictreason2242 Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

    • @crazymessup1255
      @crazymessup1255 Місяць тому +1

      Romans 6:20-23 here is another one Romans 3:10-18 no one is good and seeks after God . And the accurate translation to Doulos is slave.

  • @Adaeze-YAHSBRIDE
    @Adaeze-YAHSBRIDE Місяць тому +3

    Always enlighten and inspiring watching everyone of your videos sir Ray

  • @B.Mega.D
    @B.Mega.D Місяць тому +2

    Extremely good show, and very timely ❤. Thank you so much for your boldness in Truth.

  • @journalplant8490
    @journalplant8490 Місяць тому +3

    The interview made me cry ❤

  • @israelisjeshuas7009
    @israelisjeshuas7009 Місяць тому +4

    That guy totally changed by the end! God bless him. 🙏

  • @leahwarren8824
    @leahwarren8824 Місяць тому +8

    Beautiful presentation of the simple, yet profound truth ❤

    • @Silver77cyn
      @Silver77cyn Місяць тому

      More like a bunch of nonsense.

    • @johnalexander4940
      @johnalexander4940 9 днів тому

      Typical atheist whining 🍼🍼🍼 waaah. From one whose only concern is to blaspheme others for ridiculous actions attributed to God who you hate. So theres nothing that he does that's right according to atheist logic.
      Exodus chapter 21:16
      Expressly declares that kidnap of another human ( Mr humanist 😂 ) for the express purpose of selling or holding in ones possession is worth of the Death penalty.
      Go whine somewhere else.

  • @krystal6612
    @krystal6612 Місяць тому +3

    Great video❤

  • @tylerjones6356
    @tylerjones6356 Місяць тому +4

    Such an Amazing video praise GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @elijahclark4664
    @elijahclark4664 Місяць тому

    I love your videos Ray keep them up !

  • @michaelmadsen-yq5kw
    @michaelmadsen-yq5kw Місяць тому +5

    Seed planted! Great work Ray!

  • @hillarymacadam424
    @hillarymacadam424 Місяць тому +38

    We’re not slaves we are Servants of Yeshua unto His Covenant and Commandments

    • @2l84me8
      @2l84me8 Місяць тому

      Why does an all powerful god need servants for, again?
      Or do the church leaders simply want your obedience and money?

    • @crabeatingchips1857
      @crabeatingchips1857 Місяць тому

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@2l84me8He doesn’t need servants, he can make rocks do his will if he wants. Luke 19:40 But because he loves people enough that he would die for them, he sends out his people who have been eternally blessed with everlasting life to reflect his love, the church (all believers) to be a witness to the whole world. God doesn’t wish that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2nd Peter 3:9 I don’t entirely know the in’s and out’s to God’s reason why he’d use people as flawed as Noah, who got drunk, Abraham, who slept with his wife’s maid, Moses, who killed a man, David, who had committed adultery and murdered the adulteress’s husband, and many other people. But it really goes to show how patience and merciful he is, he came on this earth to die for his enemies. But God, though patient, will still have his day of justice. Those hypocrites who are just looking to get your money will get what they deserve, but same thing as liars, thieves, blasphemers, adulterers, murderers, and fornicators. There will not be a soul that will be innocent, so get right with God otherwise you’ll face the same fate as those money grabbing preachers.

    • @SELAHPAUSE
      @SELAHPAUSE Місяць тому

      @@2l84me8we are servants meaning He live thru us and we are to show others the way

    • @2l84me8
      @2l84me8 Місяць тому

      @@SELAHPAUSE That didn’t answer my question at all.
      Where’s your evidence?

    • @chiefamongsinners16
      @chiefamongsinners16 Місяць тому

      @@2l84me8God has no “needs”

  • @mikeslater6246
    @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +3

    At 14:08, the young man in the video shows a misunderstanding of what love is as do many people nowadays. Love is not a feeling, it's not something that you can fall into like a cow pie. It is a decision like God's decision to create and then to love us. But I love his response to Ray's gentle witness.

  • @Derek_Baumgartner
    @Derek_Baumgartner Місяць тому

    Jon McCray ("Whaddo You Meme??" is his channel name here on UA-cam) also did a great series digging into the topic of slavery and the Bible, too. Highly recommend looking that up, for any reading.
    ---
    Thanks for this!

  • @NewyorkRicanSoulPodcast
    @NewyorkRicanSoulPodcast Місяць тому +2

    I needed this. This is what evangelism should evoke from someone.

  • @michelerivera2330
    @michelerivera2330 Місяць тому +2

    You can litterly see him soften as Ray shares the Gospel with him🥲🙏

  • @Inmate533
    @Inmate533 Місяць тому +7

    Morgan: “I’m gonna stop calling you a White man.”
    Mike Wallace: “But, but, but… I’m Jewish…”
    And yes, he did say that. 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @DaveBoswell-lz3kc
      @DaveBoswell-lz3kc Місяць тому +1

      The ancient Semites weren't white.

    • @christisking777
      @christisking777 Місяць тому +1

      I don’t get it

    • @Inmate533
      @Inmate533 Місяць тому +1

      @@DaveBoswell-lz3kc Mike Wallace was not an ancient Semite any more than Hitler was. And ancient Semites were all shades of brown just as Japhethites were.

    • @Inmate533
      @Inmate533 Місяць тому +6

      @@christisking777 Wallace tried to discredit everything Morgan Freeman said because:
      A.) It didn’t agree with the Marxist CBS mantra of progressive racism and…
      B.) He was claiming that he wasn’t White even though it’s plain to see that he was.

    • @christisking777
      @christisking777 Місяць тому +2

      @@Inmate533ah thank you! 🙏

  • @miaanderson1377
    @miaanderson1377 Місяць тому +1

    1 Timothy 1:10 was the Scripture to quote. Thank you Ray!

  • @church_auditor21
    @church_auditor21 Місяць тому +1

    People hate others without knowing who they are
    It’s time we start loving people if we know them or not

  • @oldmanonamission8055
    @oldmanonamission8055 Місяць тому +4

    When will people stop asking God why he didn't stop this and stop that. When are people going to thank God for the air they breathe, the sun, the rain, the food, and more importantly coming down on this sinful planet and dying to give us a chance to be forgiven for our sins and have the hope to have eternal life

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому +2

      Should the children who are being sex trafficked thank God?

    • @oldmanonamission8055
      @oldmanonamission8055 Місяць тому +1

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3q You can't blame God for what people do to children or anyone else. If you did something wrong, should others get the blame also? These people will be punished for their actions unless they come to Jesus and ask for forgiveness.

  • @justsly7942
    @justsly7942 Місяць тому +4

    Yippee new video 🎉

  • @jamiemoreno1723
    @jamiemoreno1723 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you guys for the content, it really helps me understand the gospel further and grow in my relationship with Jesus! ❤

    • @israel4reel787
      @israel4reel787 Місяць тому

      No one nor Nation gets to escape their Judgements.

  • @michellec3871
    @michellec3871 Місяць тому +2

    Wow great apologetics to learn from!

  • @dantlilly7925
    @dantlilly7925 Місяць тому +3

    Glad this video is out for people to see.

    • @melissaculpepper7663
      @melissaculpepper7663 Місяць тому +1

      Only if they have eyes to see…

    • @cat-bg3rv
      @cat-bg3rv Місяць тому

      And hear 👂 it out.

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому +1

      @@melissaculpepper7663
      If only Christians were honest.

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому +1

      @@cygnusustus They are the biggest cherrypicking liars EVER.

  • @donovanweaver2436
    @donovanweaver2436 Місяць тому +192

    I am a slave to Christ Jesus my Lord and Savior!!!!

  • @fbomb7184
    @fbomb7184 Місяць тому

    Never gets old.

  • @amalrajxavier
    @amalrajxavier Місяць тому +1

    ❤ downloaded

  • @alfredgee8961
    @alfredgee8961 Місяць тому +6

    Deutoronomy 28:68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
    SLAVERY WaS A. CURSE put on Israel because of disobedience

    • @kermit1
      @kermit1 15 днів тому

      1 PETER 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
      Thanks God.

  • @brianburgess3231
    @brianburgess3231 Місяць тому +18

    free will

    • @tryphenarose384
      @tryphenarose384 Місяць тому +1

      Free will is one thing, but the law given to Israel, who were God's chosen people, were literally given the permission to take sl. av. es. That's deeper than just an answer of "free will". It brings into question what God deems good, right and just if he allowed things that were abhorrent.

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +5

      ​@@tryphenarose384your comment sounds like you did not understand what they said. Exodus 21:16 says:
      Exodus 21:16 ESV‬
      [16] “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
      That was the slavery of early America, not the Bible.
      How does that line up with your comment? In God's letter to mankind, called the Bible, He talks about much that he does not condone but is true and is supposed to be used for us to learn more about Him. Most of the terms translated slave in the Bible actually would be more accurately translated as bondservant.
      Please check this out. You really have misunderstood this video and that term.

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому +1

      @mikeslater6246 He said its ok to beat slaves just as long as they didnt die within a few days.
      What a loving tyrant!

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +1

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3q I'm not going to argue with a person who has no understanding at all of who God is and what his word, the Bible says. And obviously has no desire to learn.

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому +1

      @mikeslater6246 I have read the Bible and was a christian for 20 years. If there were no contradictions in the Bible there would not be over 1,000 different Christian denominations.

  • @archangel6415
    @archangel6415 Місяць тому

    Dear Ray, we love you too. One of the best evangelists on the planet.

  • @michellesiegmund6657
    @michellesiegmund6657 Місяць тому +2

    Skin color tells you nothing about the person, but the mouth and the heart does.

  • @REKKnives
    @REKKnives Місяць тому +2

    This is a great video, thanks for posting guys! I do wish though you had addressed specifically Lev 25:44-46 which is talking about non Israelites and God allowing them to be kept as slaves 'permanently' and as 'property' vs Israelite 'slaves' who were to be released after a certain amount of time or in the year of jubilee. This is a passage I've often wondered about.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +3

      He doesn’t wanna talk about it nor does any other Christian because they can’t explain it. The Israelites are allowed to have slaves

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +1

      @CP-dk8oi Christian that doesn’t want to explain it. Meaning a teacher someone who’s going to teach. That’s why I’m referring to people like in the video who are teaching other people

    • @chiefamongsinners16
      @chiefamongsinners16 Місяць тому +2

      It’s about sojourners (those of foreign ancestry passing through Israel or temporarily dwelling there) who don’t have a permanent residence selling themselves into servitude to Israelites in order to escape poverty, homelessness, and death. However, in the same passage a few verses earlier, Israelites are counseled to freely help sojourners who are fallen on hard times.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +1

      @@chiefamongsinners16 sojourners of their OWN people. These other nations they can completely own and pass down as inheritance

    • @chiefamongsinners16
      @chiefamongsinners16 Місяць тому +1

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot Where does it say sojourners “of their own people?”

  • @banemaler
    @banemaler Місяць тому +6

    It is a misconception that chatel slavery was a benefit to the southern economy. There is plenty of data that refutes this notion and actually emphasizes that it was holding the economy back due to its inefficiencies. Voluntary labor has proven to be far more beneficial and prosperous as we saw in industrialization in the North shortly after the war and through the 21st century. I would argue this is not only a natural consequence but a divine blessing from God for doing things the way God prescribes.

  • @jaynewilson5063
    @jaynewilson5063 24 дні тому

    Living 💧 Waters has helped me grow as a Born-Again Believer & Jesus Follower 🙏

  • @dianaprivatte8822
    @dianaprivatte8822 Місяць тому +1

    Beautiful praise the Lord🙏🏻

  • @freedom4life312
    @freedom4life312 Місяць тому +4

    Thank you for saying that Ray!😄 All this time I thought I was the only one who saw Sam Harris as the simple guy next door who's not very wise at all, but always had to put his two pennies in. 🙄

    • @9432515
      @9432515 Місяць тому

      He parrots bad arguments for the masses. The voice of the d.a.

  • @bornagainspirit
    @bornagainspirit Місяць тому +5

    Slavery was different then, poor people worked for food as salary, after a specific time (they're freed)
    So many of them they put themselves into slavery, sometimes their family gave up their children because they didn't have enough food.

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому +6

      "Slavery was different then"
      Nope.
      Under Mosaic law, foreign slaves were chattel slaves. They could be bought, sold, separated from their families, beaten, raped, killed, kept for life, and passed down as inherited property. Every specific reference to foreign slaves in the Bible is to deny them rights and protections afforded to Hebrew slaves. The treatment of foreign slaves was every bit as bad, or worse, than slavery in the Antebellum south. It was not voluntary, and it was not of economic benefit to the slave.

    • @SMOS99
      @SMOS99 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@cygnusustusThat is absolute nonsense....you clearly do not understand the Bible and as a sinner do not have the right to judge a holy, perfect, righteous God whose very grace you depend on for every breath you take.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +4

      @@SMOS99 it’s nonsense that foreign people were allowed to be Israelites slaves that they could inherit? Are you sure?
      Leviticus 25:44-46 (CSB) 44 “Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves. 45 “You may also purchase them from the aliens residing with you, or from their families living among you -- those born in your land. These may become your property. 46 “You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.
      I think you need to reread your Bible

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому +3

      @@SMOS99
      "That is absolute nonsense"
      Show me which claim was wrong, child.

    • @FitBabe
      @FitBabe Місяць тому

      @@cygnusustusCan you please reference the scriptures that support what you say about how foreign slaves could be treated under mosaic law? I’m trying to learn more about this topic.

  • @Berhankulu2000
    @Berhankulu2000 Місяць тому +1

    May God bless for this ministry,and all of you those who involved to keep souls for Jesus from the darkness.
    I really Love the way you guys ministering to people, Jesus Giving you wisdom.

  • @user-ls4zn7dx5f
    @user-ls4zn7dx5f Місяць тому +1

    The Lord through Livingwaters has helped me so much, lets get out there and plant seeds for the Lords harvest!!

  • @NewInvestor758
    @NewInvestor758 Місяць тому +3

    If anyone gets paid to do work. They may be a slave to the dollar. You can't pay bills, your a slave.

    • @paulnash6944
      @paulnash6944 Місяць тому

      This is a great point!

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому

      Except I have a choice to continue to do work or quit.
      These slaves have zero choice to quit and are forced to do work.
      Oh and masters can physically abuse their property as long as they survive within 1-2 days. Exodus 21:20-21

  • @lloydellmiller6279
    @lloydellmiller6279 Місяць тому +3

    The children of Israel were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. They reaped what they sowed. They sold Joseph into slavery. The children of Judah were taken captive in Babylon. Joseph was exalted to the 2nd in command and Daniel’s obedience made him the kings favorite. Daniel received visions of the end of days. Paul the apostle was imprisoned and he wrote most of the New Testament. He that is greatest of you must be your servant(slave). If you can be free be free.

    • @9432515
      @9432515 Місяць тому +3

      Forced to serve. Poor Hebrews and poor gentiles were forced to serve by debt. But it was a choice to take out a loan..as it is today, and yet another choice to have God absolve that debt (fin&sin) completely. Sin makes you a slave by force

  • @NewyorkRicanSoulPodcast
    @NewyorkRicanSoulPodcast Місяць тому +2

    One cannot serve both God and Mammon for he we love one and hate the other. 💵

  • @debbiemyres3670
    @debbiemyres3670 Місяць тому +2

    Children who pass away young are in the arms of God. He doesn't take them but he definitely receives them.

    • @indiawilkins9750
      @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

      God does take them Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV

    • @indiawilkins9750
      @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

      God does take them Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV

    • @indiawilkins9750
      @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

      God does take them Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV

    • @indiawilkins9750
      @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

      God does take them Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV

    • @marceld8961
      @marceld8961 20 днів тому

      ​@indiawilkins9750 god in the Old Testament is not the same God Jesus talks about. That God in the old Testament is a monster.

  • @JESUS_IS_KING777_12
    @JESUS_IS_KING777_12 Місяць тому +4

    Actually the Bible does allow slavery, and am a Christian saying this. Anybody with any knowledge of history and how the world ran back then would understand why slavery had to exist. Do you people not realize that currency in those times ran by non renewable resources like gold and silver? And how much weaker the world’s economy was?? 95 percent of regular civilians lived in poverty, heck if you didn’t have a family business or land you were not going to make it far in life. Education was key, and only the rich/nobles could afford that. Slavery helped fix the poverty issue as it was way better being a slave having your daily necessities then living in the streets having nothing.
    Neverless slavery is a human thing for in the beginning it was not so-Matthew 19:8. For when God created the world he commanded humans to rule the earth, not each other

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      Well that’s not completely true. That’s like saying we are not supposed to eat meat because in the beginning it was not so. But we know that Christ ate fish. With that being said God did command Israelites and gave liberty to them to have chattel sl@ves. And also when he saves the Israelites and puts them back into the land, they are going to have servants again.

    • @tryphenarose384
      @tryphenarose384 Місяць тому

      All of those things factor into why men could also take sl. av. wives as well, right?

    • @JESUS_IS_KING777_12
      @JESUS_IS_KING777_12 Місяць тому

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot being a servant to the right master isn’t a bad thing. Look how Satan turned out, he rebelled against God because he saw himself as a slave while ignoring the benefits and love that God had for him in heaven. Now he’s exercising his free will for evil just like how people in this corrupt world are doing.
      And i can tell that it was better to be a slave in Israel than a pagan nation that world literally use you for abominable rituals. But my point of quoting Matthew 19:8 was to show that slavery (of this world) was never the will of God, but God allowed it. Just like how the Bible saids God Hates divorce but He allows it under certain grounds.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +1

      @@JESUS_IS_KING777_12 I mean God still allows divorce even in the New Testament but I get what you’re trying to get at. However, it doesn’t work in the cases of slavery because he still allows slavery and that the Israelites are going to have slaves in the future…
      The specific scripture I’m talking about in the Old Testament talks about the Israelites being able to be harsh and treat their slaves with rigor Leviticus 25:44-46

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +2

      The "slavery" condoned in the Bible was not the slavery of early America. The slavery of the Bible was indentured servitude. And all of those slaves were required to be released in their 7th year. How does exodus 21:16 which requires all of those involved in American type slavery to have been put to death and Biblical "slaves" being released in their 7th year line up with your comment?

  • @cosmictreason2242
    @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +3

    Slavery is when you don't work for yourself but someone else, as seen in employment, mortgage, and taxes. Only the self employed and debt free are Biblically free and not slaves

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +1

      Not entirely true

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +1

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot it's literally "someone else has the authority to tell you what to do with your time, and the power to punish you for disobedience"

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +1

      @@cosmictreason2242 not my point… my point is that you are trying to act as a slavery is like a normal job. I’m saying indentured servitude is part of slavery but the other part of slavery is Leviticus 25:44-46 which is Chatel slavery

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot the Bible doesn't endorse chattel slavery. Slavery was voluntary, property and marriage rights were retained, they were paid, it was forbidden to force someone into it and it was forbidden to return a runaway slave. And even minor workers comp injuries resulted in massive compensation. Slaves also had equal protection under the law as free citizens. The only rights they did not have was how to dispose of their own labor

    • @nickbrasing8786
      @nickbrasing8786 Місяць тому

      I'm sorry, but if you're going to say that if you have an employer then you're a "slave", and in the next breath talk about Biblical slavery then you're just wrong. Apples and Oranges. Stand in front of a foreign lifelong chattel slave in the Bible and tell him you know how he feels because you have a job too. See how he would react. That statement is an slap in the face to the millions of people throughout history that have suffered horribly under the yoke of slavery. Shame on you

  • @sallylara1102
    @sallylara1102 Місяць тому +1

    In Ephesians Paul uses slavery as a metaphor to describe the human condition, with the choice of being a slave to sin or to God. He believed that slavery is an inevitable part of human existence, and that becoming a slave means giving up status. Paul also identified himself and good Christians as slaves of God, and gave slaves control over their own salvation.

  • @artax7664
    @artax7664 Місяць тому

    I use to have a couple friends like this. It’s almost impossible to find these types of friends, and even if I did, I have no idea how to get to that point again with anyone.

  • @nuhaakram2765
    @nuhaakram2765 Місяць тому +3

    You got me when you said ريمون 😂😂😂
    I'm iraqi, and may cousin's name is Remoon .
    Regardless of the term of SLAVERY , we should first admit that we are slaves to the devil, but by God's grace, we've been saved. As long as people blame God, not Satan, for all the bad things ,they will be far from truth .
    God bless you all living waters ❤

    • @indiawilkins9750
      @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

      No , They would be very close to the truth ….

  • @rosemorris8481
    @rosemorris8481 Місяць тому +4

    Some people think they were the only people whose ancestors were slaves.Slavery was in EVERY country on earth, way back in the past. And they used their OWN PEOPLE. There were no buildings, roads etc. etc. And they needed many to help.

    • @elibonham4388
      @elibonham4388 Місяць тому +1

      That itself doesnt excuse gods actions

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому

      ...and therefore....what?

    • @LV4EVR
      @LV4EVR Місяць тому

      ​@@elibonham4388 God's actions _never_ need to be excused. Yours, on the other hand, _do._ When your Judgment Day arrives, as it will for _all_ of us, it will not be you judging God; it will be Him judging you. You are currently hostile to your Creator, without whom you would not even exist. In love, I urge you to reconsider your foolish position. Watch any of Ray's videos and understand that you, like every single one of us, have violated God's laws and commandments, and any of us whose sins are not forgiven, will receive God's just punishment: eternity in Hell, the most terrible thing imaginable. And even though you are at present God's enemy, He still offers you not only forgiveness, but also eternal life where there is no sin, no disease, no suffering. It's totally up to you; God does not force you to love or accept Him. But ... He also allows you to suffer the consequences of your choice. Admit to Him that you have sinned against Him, ask Him to forgive you through His son, the Savior, Jesus Christ, and His death and resurrection. Be genuinely sorrowful for your sin, turn away from it, and turn to God. Read His love letter to you (the Bible) daily, and ask Him to lead and guide you in righteousness. The Bible is clear: IF you seek Him, you WILL find Him. And, if you become born again as Jesus says you must, you will receive the miracle of a new heart and new desires. Peace, love and blessings.

    • @MichaelWilliams-eq4kt
      @MichaelWilliams-eq4kt Місяць тому

      @@elibonham4388 Slavery under Israel is slavery under the Most High God, which is freedom for those willing to choose it and live it. The only other option is the slavery under the lesser gods that all the nations are born into, the ones under whom you have been a slave your entire life.
      So why won't you give up your slavery to degeneracy and sensuality? Your gods hate you and they want you to go to the lake of fire. My God is the only one who wants to set you free but He won't until you choose it.

    • @MichaelWilliams-eq4kt
      @MichaelWilliams-eq4kt Місяць тому

      @@elibonham4388 Slavery under Israel is slavery under the Most High God, which is freedom for those willing to choose it and live it. The only other option is the slavery under the lesser gods that all the nations are born into, the ones under whom you have been a slave your entire life.
      So why won't you give up your slavery to degeneracy and sensuality? Your gods hate you and they want you to go to the lake of fire. My God is the only one who wants to set you free but He won't until you choose it.

  • @rachelhayhurst-mason7846
    @rachelhayhurst-mason7846 Місяць тому

    "We are bought with a price". Yes sir. The most inestimable price imaginable: the life of God Himself in the form of a human being. Priceless!
    Praise God for this precious man. May God water the seeds that were planted on this day!
    Thank you Ray, and all at Living Waters 🤗

  • @shadowspector3611
    @shadowspector3611 Місяць тому

    6:07 I half-expected him to add “Principles of Christian Growth” right after this.

  • @j4y_37_____3
    @j4y_37_____3 Місяць тому +7

    Most slave owners and people who owned the slave ships in the slave trade were Jewish

    • @jcm9698
      @jcm9698 Місяць тому

      That is the MOST ignorant response I've ever read! Provide definitive proof!

    • @HannahsCats-zp6rb
      @HannahsCats-zp6rb Місяць тому +1

      Almost none were Jewish in fact.

  • @krystal6612
    @krystal6612 Місяць тому +5

    God is never ok with slavery ever… slavery back in the days of BC was actually an act of caring for that person. They were taken care of. I PRAYED FOR THIS MAN TO COME RUNNING TO JESUS AND REPENT OF ALL HIS SINS❤

    • @mik7564
      @mik7564 Місяць тому +1

      I love your comment!

    • @9432515
      @9432515 Місяць тому

      @CP-dk8oiNo. it was all debt servitude. Read Deut15. God’s plan to rid poverty throughout the land..first Hebrews then Gentiles til no more poor exist. How? verse 6..loans. That’s why it’s all about redemption by Redeemer Christ. Possession in lev25 is NOT ownership possession but possession by debt contract. Gentiles were free after they paid their debt off in full. Hebrews had redemption by covenant..God married to the covenanted person absolved all debt, fin&sin. Gentiles had to pay off their debt themselves (fin&sin) no matter how long it took. UNLESS, they too bc covenanted, which is the entire point. Deut29.10-15.

    • @Stephan-ix8me
      @Stephan-ix8me Місяць тому

      The Bible not only allows for slavery, it actually requires it. So I like to cherry pick that part out.

    • @Stephan-ix8me
      @Stephan-ix8me Місяць тому

      The Bible not only allows for slavery, it actually requires it. So I like to cherry pick that part out.

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому

      “God is never ok with slavery ever…”
      And yet this God gave instructions about owning people as property and passing them down to their kids.
      And that masters can physically abuse their slaves as long as they survive within 1-2 days.

  • @JesusIzLord
    @JesusIzLord Місяць тому

    Give more In N Out cards!

  • @Disciple793
    @Disciple793 Місяць тому +2

    Atheists will bring up (Leviticus 25:46) "You may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countryman, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another. This verse is used to argue that slavery in the O.T. was chattel slavery. But God's word does not contradict itself and reading all the other passages in Leviticus and Deuteronomy demonstrate that slaves were bondservants with many rights unlike the slave trade in the U.S.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      But it's still chattel slavery lol by definition
      Chattel slavery means that one person has total ownership of another
      In Leviticus 25:44 - 46 the Israelites have complete ownership of another human being and get to pass them down as an inheritance.. and you can treat them harshly
      [Lev 25:44 CSB] “Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.
      [Lev 25:45 CSB] “You may also purchase them from the aliens residing with you, or from their families living among you ​- ​those born in your land. These may become your property.
      [Lev 25:46 CSB] “You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot no, SLAVERY is ownership of another person without a covenant. That it can be voluntarily entered into for life doesn't make the nature of the treatment or rights any different. They could still buy their freedom with the wages they earned. They just weren't subject to the automatic release after 6 years

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      @@cosmictreason2242 read Leviticus 25:44-46

  • @michaelsilveradventure5712
    @michaelsilveradventure5712 Місяць тому +3

    Compared to the surrounding cultures, the Bible was light years ahead of the “competition.” If the Bible were being written today, the information it contains would be very different…and people would still criticize it saying it was “backwards” or “incomplete.” Plus people would quarrel with the information or say “I disagree with God.” If a solution were given for Gaza people would complain about it, if no solution were given people would complain…there’s no winning with a certain percentage of the population.
    Finally, it needs to be pointed out that the idea that slavery built a society or that colonialism helped a few at the expense of many has been debunked. Colonialism was very costly for the British Empire and Slavery only benefitted a few…when slaves harvested cotton, did the owner give away the cotton for free? No. He sold it and the money went into his pocket. Meanwhile the cotton was then sold to a processor at market value. In any case, it’s very difficult to have rational conversations about slavery or colonialism because logical discussion of it is assumed to be support of it. In earlier times people would have been open to logical discussion because it was assumed that logical discussion didn’t mean support.

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому

      "Compared to the surrounding cultures, the Bible was light years ahead of the “competition.” "
      Nope.
      The Mosaic laws were pretty similar to the laws of other nations. In some ways they were more harsh.
      Learn some history, buddy.

    • @michaelsilveradventure5712
      @michaelsilveradventure5712 Місяць тому

      @@cygnusustus Nope, you’re just parroting propaganda you heard on UA-cam. Learn some real history pumpkin.

    • @michaelsilveradventure5712
      @michaelsilveradventure5712 Місяць тому

      @@cygnusustus Lemme guess…you’re an atheist who wears a Star Wars T shirt has a Sam Harris fetish and supports “Palestine.”

  • @cygnusustus
    @cygnusustus Місяць тому +3

    "What do you mean by slavery?"
    "Yeah, but they don't want to hear the answer."
    Here's the answer for you, buddy.
    The Bible condones and promotes chattel slavery.
    Chattel slavery is defined as "the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to wor
    definition is: "The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude."
    Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery.
    "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
    45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
    46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour."
    Under Mosaic law, foreign slaves were chattel slaves. They could be bought, sold, separated from their families, beaten, raped, killed, kept for life, and passed down as inherited property. Every specific reference to foreign slaves in the Bible is to deny them rights and protections afforded to Hebrew slaves. The treatment of foreign slaves was every bit as bad, or worse, than slavery in the Antebellum south.

    • @Cheeseshredder
      @Cheeseshredder Місяць тому

      But the Hebrews could not couldn't enslave their own people. The slaves were the heathen. That would be wicked Canaanite nations they were instructed to destroy but failed to carry that out. These nations had sacrificed people and came to the fullness of sin. Wicked like the Mayan civilization. I think there were even some cities that wanted the Hebrews to take them in as slaves during times of war. You will need to reference raping slaves though. Because they committed fornication with the heathen Moabites at Peor and as a result brought a deadly curse on themselves. Fornication was a serious sin. Which Jesus further made strict by saying lust is equal to adultery.

    • @Cheeseshredder
      @Cheeseshredder Місяць тому +2

      that rape is equal to fornication which is equal to lust which is equal to adultery and not permitted by Jesus' standard

    • @cygnusustus
      @cygnusustus Місяць тому

      @Cheeseshredder
      Where is that standard? It's certainly permitted, and promoted, by God's standard.

  • @penguinrea0088
    @penguinrea0088 Місяць тому +2

    Jesus is So Amazing Amen

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому

      Jesus would have had blacks on his porch if he were here today.

  • @MG-rk3uh
    @MG-rk3uh Місяць тому

    Netanyahu is the most courageous prime minister I've ever seen❤ From a South African standing with Israel 🇿🇦🇮🇱

  • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
    @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому +5

    One, I love that people correlate modern slavery of Black people with the slavery that happened to the Israelites because it just so happens that we are the biblical Israelites according to biblical prophecy. The ones that suffered the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and will be redeemed by the Messiah when he comes back to destroy these kingdoms.
    Secondly, slavery is endorsed in the Bible because you can read about it in Leviticus 25 .
    Leviticus 25:44-46 (KJV) 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
    This is Chatel slavery in the Bible that the Israelites can do to the other nations but not to their own brethren. Furthermore, prophecy says that the Israelites are going to have servants when they are put back in the land by God.
    Isaiah 61:5 (NLT) Foreigners will be your servants. They will feed your flocks and plow your fields and tend your vineyards.
    It’s very disingenuous when people try to act like slavery is not in the Bible.

    • @banemaler
      @banemaler Місяць тому +1

      Jesus is Lord, we who are the true Israel are slaves to Him and His gospel as emphasized by the Apostle Paul. This is freedom! There will be no man in bondage in the kingdom. The only way you will be recognized as a member of the body and His kingdom is through surrender to His will and obedience made possible by the blood that covers us and the Holy Spirit indwelling making us righteous. Your blood will never save you, it only condemns you already. Trust in the savior.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      @@banemaler there will be no bondage in the kingdom? You sure about that? I believe I just quoted the scripture that says otherwise.

    • @banemaler
      @banemaler Місяць тому

      @@ThrowAway-xy4ot Yes I am sure! Hermeneutics 101! Put your trust in the savior who fulfilled the law, not in your own work. Not one of us can keep the law but He did and is our perfection.

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      @@banemaler
      Isaiah 61:3-7 (KJV) 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7 For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for] confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
      The nation of Israel receives the gospel and they get to get put back in their own land at which point will be built back up to the old status. And the other nations are going to be their servants feeding the flocks and doing fieldwork unlike the Israelites who are going to be priests and glorified …. I think you need to go back to hermeneutics 101

    • @NikosNikos-dr7wv
      @NikosNikos-dr7wv Місяць тому +1

      There is no slavery in the Bible

  • @Chemosh418
    @Chemosh418 Місяць тому +3

    The slavery in the Bible was like roots and the Atlantic slave trade.

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +1

      NO! EXODUS 21:16

    • @Chemosh418
      @Chemosh418 Місяць тому

      @@mikeslater6246 kidnapping isn’t the same as slavery.🤦‍♂️😂
      You do know that slaves were tricked into slavery by Jesus.

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +2

      @@Chemosh418 I'm not going to play word games with you and you know nothing, repeat nothing, about Jesus. He did no such thing. You will answer to Him for the statements like that.

    • @Chemosh418
      @Chemosh418 Місяць тому +1

      ⁠@@mikeslater6246Jesus said take my yoke upon you.
      Not to mention Roman’s 6:18 says become slaves of righteousness. That’s the same as wearing shackles of righteousness if we are to take off the shackles of sin.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому

      @@Chemosh418 the Bible forbids impressment. Roots was impressment. You said they're the same. You lied.

  • @lnb4866
    @lnb4866 Місяць тому +1

    I thought it said my babies beef… And I just rolled because it looks like she’s angry and it’s so fitting🎉

  • @Valhalla369
    @Valhalla369 Місяць тому +2

    Where in the Bible does it say slavery is wrong? And Where in the Bible does it say polygamy is wrong? I neither support slavery nor polygamy. I am saying that sarcastically to call out people who would always say "where in the Bible does it say... " without using their God given common sense or conscience..

  • @ScottJohnson99091
    @ScottJohnson99091 Місяць тому +17

    Awesome God ❤️, My family are happy once again and can now afford anything for my family even with my Retirement. $57k weekly returns has been life changing, after so much struggles.

    • @ChristianWalter7756
      @ChristianWalter7756 Місяць тому +1

      Hello how do you make such weekly?? I'm a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God.

    • @ScottJohnson99091
      @ScottJohnson99091 Місяць тому

      Franca wellis ,I really appreciate her efforts and transparency..

    • @ScottJohnson99091
      @ScottJohnson99091 Місяць тому +1

      I remember giving her my first savings $20000 and she opened a brokerage account for me it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

    • @Jamesharrison77597
      @Jamesharrison77597 Місяць тому

      This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. I receive this for my household.🙏🙏

    • @Sandra.00916
      @Sandra.00916 Місяць тому

      YES!! That's exactly her name (Franca Wellis) so many people have recommended highly about her and am just starting with her from Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹

  • @mr.knightthedetective7435
    @mr.knightthedetective7435 Місяць тому +3

    MESSAGE TO LIVING WATERS:
    What you are doing to people on the streets is guilt-tripping them into accepting Christianity, thinking God judges us the same way a flawed human judge judges criminals, we are NOT criminals in Gods eyes, only flawed creation. God will judge us based on our intentions behind our deeds and words first and foremost for He knows we didn't mean to sin but were lead astray by Satan, God sees who we are deep within us, God has created us as innocent and NOT guilty and it is us who have to work our way into Heaven to God, place in Heaven has to be EARNED, not "bailed out" by blind faith in blood-sacrifice of a human being.

    • @Light_Kid
      @Light_Kid 16 днів тому +1

      You should read Ephesians 2. It talks all about salvation, and really how to get it! Jesus explains it very clearly, how it's not earned at all, but rather by the grace of God, so that no one can boast and be like, "I worked harder than you for my salvation: [Ephesians 2:8-9] "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
      And before you say "faith without works is dead-" [James 2:14-26], it's not talking about salvation, but rather the belief that one has. I can have faith in Jesus all I want, and say that I believe in Him, but even Satan and his demons believe in Him, and tremble at his name- [Verse 19]. This shows that Christians would need to act on their faith. [Hebrews 11:1] says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Later in the chapter it mentions Rahab (the woman that helped to hide the spies in Jericho. She revered God, and had faith- she knew what God was capable of and how he backed his people. She made an agreement with the two spies, and she fulfilled her part of it. When Jericho was destroyed, her and her family was spared.
      Another example of great faith was Abraham regarding him and Sarah having a son. The man was over 100, and his wife was over 90! To the regular human eye, that seems impossible, and I'm certain it was a struggle as well, but nothing is impossible with God [Luke 1:37]. After 25 years of waiting and believing, Issac was born. He even displayed faith with action to God when God asked him to sacrifice Issac. Abraham loved his son, and I'm sure he probably felt like it was a terrible thing to do. But he understood that God knows what he knows, and is just and righteous. Either way right before he was about to go through with it, an angel told him to stop. It was a test of his faith, and boy did he pass. Issac lived on, and a sacrificed ram was given to God instead. This is all in [Genesis 21 & 22].
      You remember "Doubting Thomas?" He was disciple of Jesus that wasn't around when Jesus appeared to the other disciples after he resurrected. Even they didn't believe it at first. But after, when Thomas came around and they told him that they saw Jesus, he said, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”. [John 20:24]. Jesus comes again a week after, and Thomas finally sees him.
      This "blind faith in blood sacrifice of a human being" is blessed according to Jesus. Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”- Jesus is returning again someday. Jesus's name Emmanuel means "God with us." God came down into human form. Jesus is not just any man. He is the Son of God, the Father is in Him and He is in the Father. The same power that can forgive sins can heal the sick and bring us to salvation. The book of Mark tells us who Jesus is, if you want to know.
      God didn't create us to be sinners, but we DID choose that for ourselves. Adam and Eve disobeyed God- yes Satan through the serpent deceived them, but they still made the choice to eat the fruit! And there were many consequences as a result.
      And a fair judge, not a flawed one is used for the analogy. God is righteous, fair and just. [Psalm 25:8-10]. He shows no partiality [Romans 2:11-12]- other words, no favoritism, similar to how a judge shouldn't. Obviously it's not a 1 to 1 comparison regarding God being able to create the world, but when it comes to salvation and forgiveness it's actually quite spot on. Another good one is Jesus being like a doctor/physician: “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance,” [Mark 2:17]. Doing sins do in fact go against God- and because we have desire to sin, that's why the flesh is described as being 'at enmity with God.' [Romans 8:7]. That's why Jesus says repeatedly to deny our flesh and follow him instead- “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." [Matthew 16:24].
      In other words, there is nothing we can do to earn our own salvation- that's completely by God's grace, and the Bible says so very clearly. It's a comfort to me because it helps me to focus on God and on Jesus and how to be like Him, rather than focusing on being a morally perfect person- which is something none of us can do. Following Jesus' example, taking His words and applying them to our lives is paramount. If we struggle, no worries! That's why we can talk to Him, and develop that relationship with Him! The more we hang out with Him, the more we begin to look like Him. [Proverbs 13:20-25]. Having that relationship with Him is important to developing it, and when we get the Holy Spirit (which comes by being saved)[1 Corinth. 12:13 & more] we are able to develop the fruits of that spirit. Sending love to you!

  • @demsyciu
    @demsyciu Місяць тому +1

    People who is like that old man showed in the clip who walking away soon after he finished his question is actually believing that God is exist, but he just reject Him because God is not act in the way that he thinks is the best way or the best moral or in anothee words that person like that think he knows all, have all the good standart..
    A person wouldn't so mad or hate for something that he thought never existed to begin with..

  • @cygnusustus
    @cygnusustus Місяць тому +1

    "The first question we have to ask is 'what do you mean by slavery'?"
    The Bible condones and promotes chattel slavery.
    Chattel slavery is defined as "the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work. Another definition is: "The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude."
    Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery.
    "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
    45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
    46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour."
    "Yeah, but they don't want to hear the answer."
    Nope. It is you Christians who do not want to hear the answer!

  • @christalmettbrotchen1298
    @christalmettbrotchen1298 Місяць тому

    are these little books "100 mio", (like the gospel of John) available in german language? thx! GBU

  • @denismwiti
    @denismwiti Місяць тому +2

    Just throwing this here to the podcast guy on slavery "20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property."

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +1

      Happens to be the exact same level of legal protection the free man gets, in the same passage

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 Місяць тому +1

      @CP-dk8oi "died of the injury. " This is the thing you're reading into the text that isn't there. It is actually creating a statute of limitations, that you can't claim that a man died from a beating when he lived for several days after it. That is the same law for free and slave.

    • @cosmictreason2242
      @cosmictreason2242 13 днів тому

      @CP-dk8oi the website biblehub has a dozen commentaries for every single verse, which allows you to see what others in different times and places, some pastors, some greek/Hebrew scholars, have said about the passage before. It is unlikely that a valid interpretation has not been considered, and so that's where you should go when you are uncertain of the meaning of a text, before you make up your mind on intuition alone

  • @Silver77cyn
    @Silver77cyn Місяць тому +1

    That God approved it, and in certain occasions COMMANDS it.

  • @thatomofolo452
    @thatomofolo452 Місяць тому +1

    💆

  • @TickedOffPriest
    @TickedOffPriest Місяць тому

    It all comes down to how terms are defined.

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому

      Owning another person is slavery.

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest Місяць тому

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3q If the person makes the choice, and has rights to even leave, you are comparing apples to oranges.

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому

      @@TickedOffPriestBuying and owning a person is slavery!

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому

      @@TickedOffPriest Except that foreigners could not leave. Which means it’s slavery.

  • @deborahmurray6872
    @deborahmurray6872 Місяць тому +1

    Romans 10:13, "All who call on the name of Jehovah will be saved."

  • @Sidetrackification
    @Sidetrackification Місяць тому +1

    One other thought, no crop of any thing that was planted, was , until an animal, or a machine could do the labor, was done by man.

  • @jeremyscherrer7194
    @jeremyscherrer7194 Місяць тому +2

    Anyone in debt is slave. Many choose to be a slave.

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому

      Slavery is defined as owning another person.

    • @jeremyscherrer7194
      @jeremyscherrer7194 Місяць тому

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3q or a slave to sin

    • @9432515
      @9432515 Місяць тому

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3qpossession in lev25.44-46 is not possession by ownership but possession by debt contract. V23 defines the word

  • @georgekosho548
    @georgekosho548 Місяць тому +1

    God made man in from the dust of the Earth. There is a black dirt, White dirt, Brown dirt, Yellow and red dirt. We are a mixture of dirt. We are made out of one blood, according to Acts chapter 17

  • @Chemosh418
    @Chemosh418 Місяць тому +2

    One being owned and passed down as property is called slavery.

    • @9432515
      @9432515 Місяць тому +1

      Yup..but it NEVER SAYS OWN! Possession in lev25 is not possession by ownership but possession by debt contract, hence redemption (buyback from debt) by Redeemer Christ..of the world, Gentiles too. Read Deut15. Loans to rid poverty..Hebrews first then Gentiles

    • @Chemosh418
      @Chemosh418 Місяць тому

      @@9432515 what do you think property is . Why would a servant need an awl through his ear to show he is mine for life?

    • @Chemosh418
      @Chemosh418 Місяць тому

      @@9432515
      Property being owned is one who wears the awl,🤦‍♂️

    • @Light_Kid
      @Light_Kid 16 днів тому

      @@9432515 Interesting. I didn't see that before. Will read.

  • @indiawilkins9750
    @indiawilkins9750 Місяць тому

    God does take them ( God give life God take life ) Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV

  • @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl
    @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl Місяць тому +2

    Alot of people think pointed ears could be the mark of Cain . NOT ALL PEOPLE who have pointed ears are decendants of Cain .And Cains offspring definately survived the Flood Even Offspring of Cain can follow Gods commandments,love God ,believe in Jesus and can go to Heaven.

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому +1

      Noah's family were all descendants of Seth. So none of Cain's family could have survived the flood. They all drowned.

    • @mikeslater6246
      @mikeslater6246 Місяць тому

      @CP-dk8oi sources identify Naamah as the wife of Noah and as one of his kinsmen. There doesn't appear to be any source identifying the kinsmanship of his son's wives so there is a possibility that they are descendants of Cain. But it is my belief that the final punishment for Cain was the total annihilation of his family line which would have been accomplished at the flood. But admittedly that is a subjective opinion.

    • @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl
      @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl Місяць тому

      Alot of Bible scholars believe around the world ,some kenites or offspring of saten survived ,and some believe that God said take tw0 of every flesh,,meant take a fertile couple from every race, the races where created on the 6th day .all the races.this means Asian Caucasian ,the Black race and so on.And they were on the Ark. ADAM AND EVE were created on the8th day they are where Cain and Abel, Seth etc were born .Abel Father was Adam .Cain Father was Saten

    • @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl
      @FreddyPhatnutz-ue8yl Місяць тому

      @mikeslater6246 It does not say that all drowned,as we have different races today Asian Black's Whites etc HOW did they survive the flood for they are certainly here today and the wicked Kenites are here causing all kinds of troubles for mankind ,especially Christians

  • @michaelmartin9335
    @michaelmartin9335 Місяць тому +1

    Ever learning but unable to come to the true knowledge of the Lord Jesus the only Son of God.

  • @thundershadow
    @thundershadow Місяць тому +1

    It is clear that a person can be enslaved without shackles. It is the only explanation why people continue to harp about slavery in the land of plenty that God rooted people in. Who says God did not end slavery in this country. But the group who was enslaved continued to choose slavery over freedom and plenty.

  • @donovanweaver2436
    @donovanweaver2436 Місяць тому +1

    Ray you are a beautiful man you have a magical way of communicating the fear of hell and bringing the Cure of Heaven in Christ Jesus to everyone!! Well done son!

  • @Sethhaun78
    @Sethhaun78 Місяць тому +1

    You can tell when someone says my people ,they are truly lost..I used to think like that for 42 years.until I was shown truth..WE ARE ALL FROM ADAM ,NOAH ..THERE IS NO RACE..only man.period ..people don't want the truth only drama and to blame...

    • @ThrowAway-xy4ot
      @ThrowAway-xy4ot Місяць тому

      That's true and not true. God made man from Adam and Noah however he divided them into different nations and gave those different nations different inheritance... furthermore there are certain judgments for certain Nations...

  • @MissJonas
    @MissJonas Місяць тому +2

    You guys have very meaningful conversations. But please cut back on the foolish talk. I unsubscribed from the radio talks because the first 10 minutes were usually nonsense. Thank you!

  • @tTtt-ho3tq
    @tTtt-ho3tq Місяць тому +1

    Are you saying there was no slave slavery by Christians before? Until, in America (the US) by the Brits brought them in, and Americans continued? The US was the first place for slave slavery by Christians?

  • @noelmckinney6951
    @noelmckinney6951 Місяць тому +1

    Too much too fast. It was work for me to pause, rewind, listen again, then repeat the process. I love you all, but SLOOOWW down! 🙏

  • @Daviddaze
    @Daviddaze Місяць тому +1

    In exodus 21 God tells Moses how to treat bondservant situations. Economic, debt, etc. Since slavery has been practiced by all people groups since the beginning, God gave some advice.

    • @Daviddaze
      @Daviddaze Місяць тому

      @CP-dk8oi that's in Exodus 20

    • @user-gb3hu9nk3q
      @user-gb3hu9nk3q Місяць тому

      He could have just told them not to own slaves? LMAO

    • @Daviddaze
      @Daviddaze Місяць тому

      @@user-gb3hu9nk3q People always disobey God, even the Jewish people. There's borrower mortgage slavery, job boss paycheck slavery, debt repay slavery, slavery to end starvation. 4 types listed in Exodus 21.
      In modern times there's good and bad slavery in the world. Forced kidnapped workers on shrimp boats for months. Kidnapped women & kids 4 sex or factories. High interest lenders. All the perps will face God on judgment day.

    • @ThatOneGuy58437
      @ThatOneGuy58437 Місяць тому

      So why didn’t God write an 11th commandment called “Thou shall not own people as property.” Since slavery is immoral.

    • @Daviddaze
      @Daviddaze Місяць тому +1

      @ThatOneGuy58437 if someone is abusing any type of slave contract with freedom restrictions, that may be under - do not covet. In the second part of golden rule, Jesus mentions about treating others as treating oneself. Six commandments are about how to treat fellow man.

  • @markchristman1076
    @markchristman1076 Місяць тому +1

    I think the Bible is neutral towards slavery. It doesn't attempt to overturn the institution but warns each party in their treatment of the other probably not what people want to hear. The American slave trade is of course terrible. Slavery occurs today which those people(race hustlers)have no interest in stopping. I heard a American missionary ministering in Africa speak at our church and he was always troubled by those people who are boastful of their African heritage but have no interest in bringing slavery to an end in Africa.

  • @clintfrye9564
    @clintfrye9564 Місяць тому +1

    Treat them well.

  • @tonya1802
    @tonya1802 Місяць тому +2

    I dont see where the Bible teaches that bad things happen bc God gave us a Free will but that bad thinkgs happen because we live in a fallen world andthat we do have a free will to choose however according to The Bible no ine would ever choose God or anything pleasing to God like repentance or saving Faith ECT nor are we even ABLE to do so according to God's word. We mist be changed by The Holy Spirit we must be caused to be born again in the Spirit. We freely choose according to our nature and our nature according to The Bible is not free but rather enslaved to sin and thats actually what The Bible teaches. I know Ray knows all of this just wasn't worded that way for time sake i suppose but obviously someone like Ray who reads the Bible for so many years knows exactly that i just wamt to clarify. Thanks and God bless

  • @mikestroud9969
    @mikestroud9969 Місяць тому +2

    How about the Neanderthal and Cro magnon men ??? Why didn't they know about A God ?? I'm really curious 🤔🤔. I feel blessed that Jesus Christ came into my life back in 1990 been sober for 34 years and counting. Thanks goes to Jesus Christ ❤️🙏🇺🇲💯. Whoever Exalts himself will be Humbled Whoever Humbles himself will be Exalted Mathew 23 12. Take care 🙏💯

    • @watchmanofthenight2700
      @watchmanofthenight2700 Місяць тому

      Anything that is contrary to Scripture is a lie, these are the products of science falsely so-called.