<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Ralph,</DIV>
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<DIV>What is your point? </DIV>
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<DIV>God isn't for slavery or people owning people, or abuse of people. No where does He say they should. That is my point. </DIV>
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<DIV>Ownership of people for work and services was how the economy worked thousands of years ago, but it doesn't mean that God condoned abuse and misuse of people, He doesn't. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 4/13/09, Ralph Nielsen <I><nielsen@uidaho.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen@uidaho.edu><BR>Subject: 8 year old girl denied divorce<BR>To: "vision 2020" <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Cc: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com><BR>Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 10:42 PM<BR><BR>
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<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 8px; FONT: 16px Times">God never said slavery is fair and just. He just said what I have quoted below. Check your own Bible if you don't believe me. </DIV>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 8px; FONT: 16px Times">Wives, children and slaves are a man's property. And according the to the last of the Ten in Exodus 20 you may not covet them.</DIV>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 8px; FONT: 16px Times">Are you judging God?</DIV>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 19px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 8px; FONT: 16px Times">Ralph</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Again, you fail to address my point. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Nowhere in the Bible does it say slavery is just or fair in the eyes of God. These are only laws protecting slaves and protecting people from slavery. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>You are not able to produce a sentence where God says, Slavery and abuse of slaves is good and of God. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Slavery is a man made invention, and its abuse was regulated by the Bible, not commanded by it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Best Regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Donovan</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Ralph Nielsen <<A href="http://mailman.fsr.com/mailman/listinfo/vision2020" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT style="COLOR: #551b8c" color=#551b8c><U>Nielsen at uidaho.<SPAN>edu</SPAN></U></FONT></A>> wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>This is what God said,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Exodus 21:2</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Exodus 21:7</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Exodus 21:20</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Exodus 21:21</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Remember, Donovan, I didn't write this, nor am I interpreting it, I am just quoting it. If you sell your daughter as a slave, she shall remain a slave for the rest of her life. If you breed her, her offspring are also your slaves, which you may keep, sell, or bequeath to your sons.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Leviticus 25:44</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Leviticus 25:46</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>But remember, you may not make your slaves work on Saturdays:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave, or your female slave, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Read the Bible carefully, Doug does.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Courier" face=Courier size=4>Ralph</FONT></DIV>
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