Talk to an atheist about the moral wisdom in scripture, and seconds later, you’ll hear him make a statement about the Bible’s stance on slavery. The appeal to slavery is expected to end all arguments about the obviously bankrupt Iron Age morality of the Bible and to lift up modern moral sensibilities as clearly superior in every way.
As I’ve listened to so many responses to these concerns from Jews and Christians, none have resonated with me. Too many are an attempt to defend the Bible by appealing to an evolving morality that makes it sound like God is becoming increasingly moral throughout human history until he reaches the apex of morality that just so happens to align with the popular morality of our day.
The Bible is the most ethical book ever written.
Besides the self-congratulatory chronological snobbery of these kinds of arguments, I suspect that the opposite is more likely to be true. The Torah, also called “the Law” (the first five books of the Bible), contains some of the most ethically insightful writings in scripture. The rest of the Bible does not evolve past this part of the Bible. On the contrary, it is founded on the bedrock of the Torah.
This brings us back to the slavery question because there’s no way to argue that the Torah denounces all forms of slavery. How can modern Christians and Jews embrace the Torah as the revelation from God when we’ve all agreed that some of the things it accepts we see today as morally evil? […]
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