On the subject of Free Will

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If God gave man Free Will why did He not forbid slavery in His revelations and make it a sin?
 
Why for instance God not include it in Moses’s Commandments. He included a whole list of other things. Why didn’t Jesus forbid it?
 
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If God gave man Free Will why did He not forbid slavery in His revelations and make it a sin?
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2414 … St. Paul directed a Christian master to treat his Christian slave “no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, . . . both in the flesh and in the Lord.” …
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Christian moralists did not condemn slavery as essentially against the natural law or natural justice. The Gospel teaches that all humans are kin in that Divine image which knows no distinction of bond and free. So slavery was looked upon by Christians with disfavor and merely tolerable. Known by its consequences as evil, it should be eliminated. Christian teaching is that it is unjust to be cruel, overload with labor, deprive of adequate food and clothing, or separate husband from wife, or mother from her young children. (Yet Christians do separate those in prison from their families.)
 
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But that negates God’s sacrosanct gift to man i.e. Free Will
 
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Jesus didn’t forbid many things explicitly, no? For example - there are many Patriot fans out there 🙂

He did command us to “love our neighbors as ourselves”. Me thinks it difficult to love someone as ourselves while enslaving them.
 
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