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In the Bible, slavery has been allowed by God, and there are several verses in it that support slavery in Christianity. Moreover, there has been every order decreed and marked upon for the treatment of slaves in the religion by their masters and what the master should pay them regarding the buying and selling methodology.
When it comes to treatment, it has been told that slaves have to be treated in a humane manner, and they cannot be treated harshly. The Bible tells that masters of slaves have to treat their slaves, in the same way, that they treat other people around them for the Lord of the masters and the slaves are the same and He does not reconcile to favoritism in His creation. Slaves cannot be threatened by their masters, in any way because it has disliked by the Lord, and His word is final. Even Jesus, at one time, being summoned by a man who had a Jewish servant, ill and on his deathbed, requested to heal him miraculously, offered the treatment and healed him with His power, therefore, the message of being kind to one’s slave and helping him live through his time of difficulty has been promoted by religion. A slave cannot be treated as a chattel or an animal because he too has feelings just like other humans and moreover the slave or a master, both are equal in the eyes of God and He is liable to punishing a believer who maltreats a slave with the fire of Hell. (Biblehub.com, n.pag).
As far as the payment for the slaves is concerned, it is different for the various kinds and reasons for buying slaves in religion. Slaves can only be bought from the neighboring nations and not from places otherwise. Slaves were bought and sold for various reasons like poverty and debt and in times of famines, where people, unable to handle their conditions sold themselves off for an amount or some help from their owner or new master. (Bbiblehub.com, n.pag).
Slaved were paid in the form of property, mortgaged or sold according to the needs of the person who was putting himself up for the cause of slavery with another person. Such a man, which is sold to another Hebrew, will then be paid in the form of sustenance to his family and the payment for his land and house by his master. At other times, if a person was caught thieving or stealing, the payment that he had stolen would become the service he was supposed to pay to another person in the form of slavery and him becoming a slave. If there were slaves that were to be bought from other places, mainly non-Hebrew slaves they came in the form of war captives and conquered by some other nation or place, they were supposed to be paid in the form of ransom apart from any other duty and then they would become the slaves of the person who had taken them in and set them free. (Biblehub.com, n.pag).
Slaves were also paid in the form of kindness as well as in the form of liberty, whereby if the slave is subject to abuse and hitting on part of the master and him has sustained some major injuries, the slave can be compensated in the form of being set free by his master and not having anything to do with him.
Christianity has set rules for the treatment and payment of slaves, and they are pertinent to the cause of slavery because slaves are humans and need to be treated like them as well.
Work Cited
Biblehub.com. Slave. Smith’s Bible Dictionary. Web. n.d. N.pag. 26 April, 2015.
Biblehub.com Ephesians 6:9. Web. n.d. N.pag. 26 April, 2015.
