Slavery has existed since the beginning of humankind.
Slavery has usually had nothing to do with racism.
Almost all people’s ancestors were slaves at one time or another.
Slavery was born out of sin.
Slavery was used in the Old Testament as a form of judgement.
Not all slavery was equal in scope, duration, brutality, or oppression.
Paul, both in the text we are going to study, and in his letters to the Corinthian church and Philemon, undermines the system of slavery through the transformation of the Gospel, not through social justice movements.
