Because there is no such endorsement.
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)
When a man sells 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 sell 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)
When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)
Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)
Because modern political dynamics is simply different from that occuring 3000 years ago.
But we aren't talking about political dynamics, are we? We are discussing the Word of God, or are you trying to say that the laws of God change in accordance with the political dynamics of the day here on Earth? Thus slavery was a Christian activity--including the beating slaves to death--but now it's NOT a Christian activity? And you accuse me of arguing from a position of ignorance?
Because explaining the bible via hermeneutics is much more sensible than editing it.
Well, if by "more sensible" you mean changing the words and their meanings so as to gain the meaning you wish to have, then yes, I guess that's a good process. But look at what it has accomplished: people have justified going to war, killing, torturing, genocide, slavery, rape, and every other bad thing you can think of that way. Why do you think your religion has splintered into more than 4000 sects? Hermeneutics or interpretation is what has done it. That's why Nazis can call themselves Christians and prove it with the Bible. Hell, the Ratzipper Pope colluded with the Nazis during the Second World War and I bet he can justify that with the Bible too.
Having nothing to say you put up a few odd thoughts and tell me to pick one.
And if you still don't get it, why not blame the jews for a change. After all, they're the ones serious about mosaic law.
According to Jesus Christians should be serious about the law too.
"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets... Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great..." Mat. 5:17-19
If the bible were the 'infallible' word of god, then there would be no need for tradition -- the other half from which divine inspiration is supposed to be coming from.
Yet, when Galileo had a divine inspiration the church nearly killed him and held him under house arrest.
In 1600, the former Dominican monk and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt alive in the streets of Rome. To humiliate him, the Church first hung him upside down and stripped him naked. What made the teachings of Bruno so dangerous? He had asked a simple question: is there life in outer space? Rather than entertain the possibility of billions of saints, popes, churches, and Jesus Christs in outer space, it was more convenient for the Church simply to burn him.
When scientists discovered that transsexaulism was a birth defect through the divine revelation of scientific research, the Church condemned us anyway. You yourself, right here on this site have given me no end of crap about it. The Church is still ignoring all the research showing that homosexuality is a normal variation in the human population and is using their Word of God to persecute homosexual people.
The thing is, salvation HISTORY simply doesn't make sense if god's self-revelation abruptly stopped with the acts of the apostles 2000 yrs ago, does it? Nor would it make any sense if it were presented independent of the millieu in which it happened, would it?
It doesn't make sense anyway, but nothing I'm suggesting be left out of the Bible would change the basic history.
In fact, god's self-revelation, from the same dogma you are so averse to, is an on-going process. Heck, even science is a venue fo god's self-revelation.
Then why do you so adamantly reject scientific discoveries?
Yes, it is so complex and you are arguing from a position of ignorance.
Do you realize how silly these personal attacks make you look when I keep logically answering your objections? When I keep quoting the scriptures that you think are not even in the Bible? When I keep using your arguments to make my points? Why can't you just discuss this without the personal attacks?
