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Topic: Slave(s)(ry)

Episode Topic Audio

2024-02-22
Slavery: Why isn't slavery more absolutely condemned in the Bible? Could you talk about slavery in the 1st century?



2024-02-19
Trajectory Application of Scripture: What do you think about the trajectory method and application of Biblical teaching? [Galatians 3:28, Matthew 20:26-28].



2024-02-12
Slavery: Why doesn't God say more in His commandments about how horrible slavery was? [Exodus 20-23].



2023-11-06
God Permits Slavery: Why does God or Paul not say anything to condemn slavery in the Bible? [Deuteronomy 15:17, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Jeremiah 34:14, Romans 1:1-15, Philemon 1:16].



2023-11-01
Curse of Slavery on Ham's Descendants & People of Color: Does the curse on Ham in the words of Noah in Genesis 9 justify the misfortunes (enslaving) of people of color? [Genesis 9:25].



2023-09-11
Slavery & Armed Forces: Could these verses in 1 Corinthians 7 about slavery also apply to being committed to the military? [1 Corinthians 7:21-24].



2023-03-31
Cost of Discipleship & Lack of Commitment: Why do Christians today lack the drive to become true disciples and more like Christ? [1 John 2:6, Luke 14:26-33, Luke12:33, Matthew 19:22-24, Matthew 27-29, 1 Corinthians 6:20, Acts 2:44-45, Acts 4:32-35, John 6:66, John 6:27].



2023-01-23
Steve's Book, "Empire of the Risen Son:" My pastor found fault in the preface of your book, where you talk about John MacArthur and his view of us as servants and Jesus as Lord. Did you misattribute a John MacArthur quote?
John the Baptist and Elijah-Not Paralleled: Someone disagrees that John the Baptist and Elijah are not paralleled because John did not succeed in turning the country around? [Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 11:13-14, Matthew 17:11-13].


2022-11-15
Baptism: Should we have the person who is about to be baptized, confess their sins beforehand? [Matthew 3:6].
Identity in Christ: Should we be focusing on our "identity in Christ"? [John 13:13, Luke 17:10].


2022-06-20
Atheist Caller: Slavery: Atheist; What is the biblical position on slavery? Is there a biblically acceptable form of slavery?



2022-06-07
Noah's Nakedness & the Curse of Canaan: Could you explain the story of when Noah uttered a curse against Canaan after Ham, his son, saw a him naked? why was Canaan cursed? [Genesis 9:23].
African Black Population Cursed: Are the black people of African cursed because of Ham? [Genesis 9-10].


2022-05-20
Free Will in the Afterlife: Do you believe that we will have free will in the afterlife, and if so, what would keep us from sinning?
Slavery: Did God allow people to take slaves after they conquered other nations?


2022-02-22
"Unprofitable Servant" Parables: Would you comment on the passage about the "unprofitable servant" in Luke? [Luke 17:7-11, I Corinthians 6:20].



2021-11-09
Harm Caused by Christianity: How do you justify the harm that is caused by Christianity? [Acts 11:26, Matthew 10:16, John 8:31].
Slavery in Scripture: Didn't Paul teach that people should be good slaves? [I Corinthians 7:21, I Corinthians 13:4-8, Romans 13:10].


2021-08-02
Jesus Want Us to be Slaves: Do not these verses indicate that Jesus was supportive of slavery, and therefore could be applied to us being slaves or servants? [Luke 17:10].



2021-07-30
Slavery: What about the Bible condoning slavery? [Ephesians 6:9]
Jesus Seeing a Slave Being Abused: Is there a story of Jesus seeing the abuse of a slave and Jesus not saying anything against it?


2021-05-10
Comment on Slavery: Comment on slavery.
Generational Sin: Could you explain the concept of "Generational Sin"? [Exodus 20, Exodus 34:7].


2021-05-07
Atheist's Defense of Abortion: Atheist caller objects to the Christian's view toward abortion and how it is unfairly characterized?
Ethics of Slavery: Why didn't God make the first commandment; "You shall Not Own Other Human Beings"?


2021-02-25
Civil War Cause: Caller challenges why people fought and died in the Civil War.



2020-12-07
God's People Put in Bondage: Why did God allow His people to be in bondage for 430 years? [Genesis 15].



2020-09-23
Year of Jubilee: Would you describe the "Year of Jubilee" and if there is application to us today? [Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:2, 2 Timothy 2, Hebrews 2:15].



2020-09-16
God Should Not Repent: What does it mean that God is not a man that He should repent? [Number 23:19].
Dead to Sin: What does it mean that we should be "dead to sin"? [Romans 6:11, Romans 5:16-21 ].


2020-09-09
Free, Indeed: Could you give some context and insight into the verse about "you shall be free, indeed?" [John 8:31-38].



2020-09-08
Confessing Sins of One's Ancestors: In Nehemiah, it appears that God's people confessed the sins of their ancestors, so how would that apply to us today, and concerns like "Black Lives Matters"? [Nehemiah 9:3, Exodus 20].



2020-06-18
Blacks Owned by Blacks First: Because the first person to own slaves was black (Anthony Johnson), we need people to know that this is not the fault of whites.



2020-06-08
Protests: Casting off Restraints & Poorly Recorded History: Could you comment about someone preaching how appropriate the protests are, drawing a relationship between Jesus casting out the money changers, and how warped our history books are? [Proverbs 29:18, Matthew 21:12].



2020-04-10
Cloud of Witnessess: The word used for the group of witnesses is cloud-could it mean "chiefs", or is it simply the natural vapor of clouds? [Hebrews 12:1].
Baptism: Is baptism like being branded, in identifying with your owner?


2020-03-09
No Longer a Slave to Sin & Walking in the Spirit: If we have the capability of not being a "slave to sin" does that mean that we have the power, by grace, to not sin? What if we stumble?[Romans 6:6, 7:14, 24-25, 8:1, 4, Galatians 5:16, Luke 15:11-32, James 3:2].



2020-01-08
Slavery: Did God endorse slavery, particularly of non-Jews? [Leviticus 25:44-46].



2019-06-24
Slavery & Employers Today: Since this is actually written to slaves, isn't it being misapplied to us in the workplace today? [Colossians 3:22].



2019-04-01
True Israelites: Slave trade predicted: New Egypt: Are the true Israelites black Africans?
Slave trade predicted: Is the trans-American slave trade curse predicted in [Deuteronomy 28:68]?
New Egypt: Is America is the new Egypt?

2018-08-29
No Longer Slaves under Sin Paul's declaration that we are no longer slaves under sin, what does this mean, especially since he said he still was a slave of sin a chapter later? [Romans 6:14, Romans 7:14]



2017-12-06
Slave or Friend: Are we a slave or a friend of Jesus?



2017-07-11
Slaves being Elders: Were slaves or could slaves be elders? does our culture like slavery? (A very long, drawn out conversation.)
Churches Authorizing Marriages: How would the church regulate secular marriages since they would have nothing to do with them, yet you saying churches need to be in charge of marriages instead of the state?


2017-07-10
Slavery Good or Bad: Was slavery good or bad in the Bible? Caller discusses again her view about how bad she feels slavery is. (follow up)



2017-07-07
Slavery: (followup) slavery was actually a good thing in old times, & God or Bible writers refer to terms of slavery all the time, like being a slave to righteousness.



2017-07-07
Slavery: (followup) A discussion about slavery. (audio is not very good.)



2017-07-06
Slavery: Why didn't God just say slavery was evil? (cont after break)



2017-06-07
Slaves & Servants: Is there a difference between Slaves & Servants? Were they really any slaves in jesus' time?



2017-02-17
Slavery: One of the main struggles a friend has w/ Christianity is slavery that happened in the Bible



2016-11-17
Dead to sin: What does it mean to be dead to sin? What does it mean to be dead to the law? [romans 6;2, 7:4]



2016-05-09
God separating a slave from his Family: Why would God command a slave be separated from his family? [Exodus 21:4]



2016-01-05
Slavery: Slavery in the New Testament was different, more positive, than what we think as slavery today, isn't that right? Indentured servitude [Matthew 6:24, Luke 6:13]



2015-11-23
Paul & Slavery & Marriage: If we no longer accept Paul's view about slavery, why do we have to accept what he said about marriage? [1 Corinthians 7, Ephesians 6:5-9]



2015-09-17
Revelation & Slaves: This is about the 3rd time this caller called to talk about Revelation & Slaves. [Revelation 22:18-19]



2015-09-09
Socialism & Slavery: How can Steve be against socialism but be in favor of slavery?
Old Covenant debt relief laws vs Modern day Redistribution of the wealth: Weren't the old covenant laws for debt relief similar to redistribution of the wealth in modern days?


2015-07-09
Slavery: Isn't God against Slavery? How can we repent for this deed of our past? Blacks being sent to jail falsely or improportionately.



2015-02-16
The Book of Philemon: Can Steve explain the book of Philemon, especially in relation to slavery, and also explain verse 6? [Philemon 1, Philemon 1:6]



2014-12-10
American Slavery & Slavery in th Bible: Discussion about slavery, both the American version & the slavery of the Bible.
Christian Zionism: What is the view of Christian Zionism & getting a remnant of Israel back together?
Genocide to Canaan: What about the genocide the Jews did to the Canaanites?

2014-09-23
Slavery follow up: We are all slaves.



2014-09-23
Slavery - Servitude: If Jesus & the Apostles had perhaps been more opposed to slavery, there wouldn't have been such a problem in our own country. What say you?



2013-11-07
Israelites being in Slavery: Why would God let the Israelites be in slavery for 400 years?
Jesus Coming Imminently: Does Steve think Jesus is coming very, very soon?


2013-09-02
Paul's Oppression of Women: We no longer agree with Paul's stance on slavery so why do we still have to obey his belief on the oppression of women? [Ephesians 5:21-24]


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