Does the Bible condemn racial slavery?

[DavidFilmer]

It may be possible to justify some forms of slavery (or maybe not), but consider the question of racial slavery, which I do not think could be justified under any circumstances.

The Bible speaks of slavery as an undesirable state of life, but does it ever actually condemn it?

If it does not (and I don’t think it does) then I wonder what a good Sola Scriptura protestant thinks about the morality of racial slavery? If the Bible does not condemn racial slavery, can an protestant claim it’s against God’s Will?

 

[Tantum_ergo]

That’s why we Catholics don’t go with sola scriptora, but on the Magesterium, the Deposit of Faith, and Sacred Tradition. Catholics from the Pope down condemned slavery for centuries because of the abuses which had crept in (for example, while Jewish people B.C. owned slaves, they were mandated to release their slaves every 50 years during the great jubilee, and they were mandated to treat them with care and dignity and on their release to make sure that they were compensated–but over the centuries other cultures with their concepts of conquests of war (as opposed to law) and other traditions which did not consider the dignity of human persons had corrupted slavery.

Personally, I am a “slave” of Jesus through Mary. While people might be uncomfortable with the term today, the idea of being “owned” by God is not repulsive to me–in fact, I can NEVER make up to Him for my own existence, anyway. . . I must decrease so that He may increase in me to the point where He is all in all. . .

That type of slavery is justifiable and worthwhile, IMO.