How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

Let’s tackle the topic of slavery. There are Bible verses in the Old Testament that seem to indicate that God did not oppose slavery. Even more puzzling are sections of the New Testament that also speak about slavery without explicitly condemning it. We never find an “end all slavery immediately” verse in the Bible.