How Did Slave Holders Use the Bible to Justify Slavery

question 114

Multiple Choice

How did slave holders use the Bible to justify slavery?

• A) The responsibility of a slave to obey his or her master is implied by the commandment to "Obey your mother and father."
• B) Slavery is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments, and expressly condemned in neither location.
• C) According to a "lost book" of the New Testament, Jesus himself owned slaves.
• D) Slave-owning tribes mentioned in the Bible, such as that of Abraham, were far more holy than those that did not own slaves.
• E) It was not man's place to free someone that God had willed should be born into slavery.

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