E95 - The Old Testament and Slavery

When you’re a Christian, you believe certain things about God. That the Bible reveals God to us. That God is morally perfect. That God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

But also, in the Old Testament, that God allowed slavery.

Wait wait wait. Wait a minute. We all know that slavery is wrong. 

We had a Civil War about it, we had Martin Luther King Jr, we had like four Planet of the Apes movies to teach us why slavery is wrong.

And yet Old Testament Israel includes people who...