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Slavery Cannot Survive the Heart of God
Excerpt from Exodus 21: God’s Emancipation Proclamation
Why does God hate slavery?
When God declared His Law to Israel, He mandated that the death penalty fall on anyone who kidnapped people, sold people, or possessed people as property. At the second giving of the law in Deuteronomy, God mandated that any slave who escapes to Israel is free.
Why does God care so intensely about this?
It reaches back to the beginning.
In Genesis 1, God creates all the cosmos, the earth, and all its inhabitants. At the end, crowning all creation:
God created humankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them,
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27 NET)
God views every human being as His child. God creates every human in His own image, just as every pair of human parents creates their child in their own image. Babies look like their parents.
To God, there is one race: all of humanity are His children. God looks at each of us and sees His image embedded in us, just as a parent can see their own facial features reflected in their child. God loves every human being because He created every human…
