This MOU between RNC and AFN further demonstrates our desire to strengthen relationships, build understanding and create sustainable community benefits as we progress the development of the Dumont project.
173-174). Godâs laws in the Old Testament not only regulated slavery (so that those enslaved would be given many rights that they otherwise would not have had), but they also supplied the means whereby fairness could be meted out with regard to criminal activity and debt.T]here is no reasonable doubt that the New Testament, like the Old, not only tolerated chattel slavery (the form prevalent in the Greco-Roman world of Paulâs time) but helped to perpetuate it by making the slavesâ obedience to their masters a religious duty.
Their humanity was owned by another person. Slavery in the Old Testament was very different and involved a variety of methods, situations, and restrictions. But the Old Testament is clear about capturing people and selling them as chattel: kidnapping was a crime punishable by death (Exodus 21:16).The Purpose of Slavery In an ideal world, slavery would neither be an option nor a necessity.ecause of the socioeconomic situation of Old Testament Israel, God did allow slavery, but He allowed it for a simple purpose: to help the poor survive. A person could sell himself into slavery (akin to indentured servitude) in order to pay off debt or provide a basic subsistence.