If slavery is a result of the fall, then it is false to claim that God’s will is slavery. It is also false to claim that the Bible presents slavery as a good thing for Black people. Slavery is always and forever wrapped in sin. One way to see this is to turn our eyes from Genesis and move toward Revelation. What is God’s vision for the reconciliation of all things (Rev 21:3-4)? It is a community of the healed and transformed, not the enslaved. If Christian ethics is about living now in light of the coming future, then the coming future freedom of all people has to at some point become flesh in
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