re: #89 Ray in TX

My first impulse is that this is a joke, but I know it’s probably not…

My first experience with Biblical revisionism came during a discussion with a Christian about the implicit condoning of slavery in Exodus. He was dumbfounded — there was no such thing! I was dumbfounded that he was dumbfounded!

So he pulled out his Bible. We turned to Exodus. To my surprise, the word ‘slave’ had been changed in his Bible to ‘servant’. Therefore, no slavery!

lol

LOL…

“The Bible uses the Hebrew term ebed to refer to slavery; however, ebed has a much wider meaning than the English term slavery, and in several circumstances it is more accurately translated into English as servant or hired worker.[2].”

To your surprise, that’s more accurate in rendering the ancient Hebrew in many cases.

en.wikipedia.org