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Anon does genealogy (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, that's Exodus. Jesus did underline this whole period as a time when Moses wrote compromises because people's hearts were hard. Another example is divorce which is what Jesus used:

Mark 10:3-5

He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus said divorce was bad, did he say slavery was bad? You seem to be in denial of how okay with slavery Christianity was. Christianity changed between the composition of the bible and today.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The Gospels would be huge if they recorded literally everything Jesus said - the mention of the Law of Moses being written due to the hardness of hearts is enough.

Society was okay with slavery at the time. It didn't really have much to do with Christianity - slavery was happening and arguably started in pagan society, the nobles got converted, but the peasantry generally didn't. Slavery basically was just an unquestioned fact of life.

It was the Christians who abolished slavery and started questioning it - while the devout ones were against it for a while, it didn't really garner traction until the 1700s when people were learning to read and the reformation had already taken effect.