The following is a question asked of Ray Comfort and his answer.
“When people talk about slavery in the Bible and say the Bible
advocates it, what do you say to them when they refuse to accept that
slavery in the Bible is different from slavery centuries ago in
America?” -Steven Gorges
You have to remember that being
anti-Bible for many is a hill upon which they will die. It’s a huge
deal, because if the Bible is God’s Word then they are accountable for
adultery, fornication, for sinful imaginations, and for lust (which the
Bible says is ad
ultery of the heart). So
their hard-nosed agenda is to prove that the God of the Bible is unjust
in His judgments, and therefore any thought of Judgment Day and Hell is
bogus.
So they are
searching after truth about as much as a man dying of thirst searches
after salt. They rather want to bolster their case for an evil Bible, so
they fortify themselves with what they think are mistakes,
contradictions, and atrocities, etc.
If you explain that
biblical slavery was akin to being a servant to pay off debt, the
skeptic will just run off to cut and paste more problems he has with the
Bible.
The only effective way to convince him is to move away
from his contentious intellect (his carnal mind) and appeal to his
God-given society-shaped conscience and take him through the moral Law.
With the help of God your aim is to make him thirst after righteousness.
It was only when I saw my sins (way back in 1972) that I began to see
my danger and whisper “What must I do to be made right with God?” The
salt of the Law made me thirst for the righteousness that can only be
found in Christ.
www.NoahTheMovie.com (not the unbiblical Russell Crowe version).