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How would you answer the objection that the Bible treats slavery as a normal social condition?
Do you understand why God does not forbid slavery in His word? Several years ago I wrote an
article titled Why the Bible Does NOT Condemn Slavery. I recommend it to those who are unable
to answer the question.

http://www.heart4god.ws/index_htm_files/Why%20the%20Bible%20Does%20NOT%20Conde
mn%20Slavery.pdf

For those who cannot answer other objections, such as why Christians condemn homosexuality,
but may choose to eat shellfish which the Law forbids, I refer you to the book titled Laying Down
the Law.

http://www.heart4god.ws/index_htm_files/Laying%20Down%20the%20Law.pdf

Because the Bible is very clear in its condemnation of homosexuality, those who are promoting,
or engaged in, this sinful lifestyle must find a way to discredit the Scriptures. A wide array of
arguments have been set forth. Can you give a defense of the Scriptures, or a defense of God?
Some may suggest that God can defend Himself, and that a Christian need not do so. Certainly
He can do so. Nevertheless, God has appointed believers to be Christ’s ambassadors,
representing the kingdom of God to a dark and sinful world. It behooves the saints to gain a
mastery of the Scriptures, and to arrive at a mature understanding of the doctrines of the faith.

The apostle Paul stated that a man cannot be appointed as an overseer in the church unless he is
able to refute those who oppose the truth.

Titus 1:7-11
For the overseer must... be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who
contradict. For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of
the circumcision, who must be silenced...

The Bible provides numerous examples of Christians who argued skillfully from the Scriptures.
Among them were men like Stephen, and Apollos.

Acts 6:8-10
And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the
people. But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both
Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and argued with Stephen.
And yet they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

Acts 18:24-28
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus;
and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and
being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Yahshua...
and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. And when he wanted to go across to Achaia,
the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had