Leviticus 25:44-6

You must understand that the God of the Old Testament is the God who brought his people up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. That is how the Ten Commandments begin. You must understand that is the way that God is described as the liberator. — Yes. Of the Israelites, his chosen people who then go and enslave people from the nations around. — Yeah. I know. And I wish that were not so. But you then get Jesus as the one risen from the dead to be the liberator of the world. Right. Was Paul meant to say let's get a petition going and if we get 100,000 signatures we can go to Caesar and we'll get a debate in the Senate about like — said masters let your slaves go. — Well, there were literally laws by which they could not do that. So, so either side of the year dot in 2 BC and in 66 6 AD um there were it was literally illegal to manu your entire slave population because the social upheaval of abolition not only in the first century the social abolition of of abolition even in the 19th century you know caused a debt that the that Britain was paying off up until 2015 you know also was illegal for a time in the early Roman Empire. Christianity. — Yes. — But they still practiced that because they thought it was the right thing to do. Like if I'm now being told that that Paul who's not just as I see him, you know, an early Christian writer, but the author of eternal scripture is now not condemning something which has come to be one of the most foundational ethical questions of Western civilization. Because ought he to have Roman laws.