Exodus 21.1 Slavery and Proportional Justice

<p>Chapter 21 of Exodus begins with the laws regulating slavery. Unfortunately, many have suggested that this demonstrates that God endorses slavery. However, we must look at the Scriptures in their entirety, and how God moves His people to grow in justice, love and mercy. It is not God who changes, but rather man does, from slavery in Egypt to the formation of a nation under God as their King. We look to the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, the prophet Ezekiel, St. Jerome and St. John Chrysostom and St. Ambrose to decipher what we should understand from these instructions from God to Moses. Is the God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament, or not?</p><p>We end with a prayer for those parents who have been the subject of a child or children's curse, pray for reconciliation and illumination of conscience of the children who have separated themselves from their parents for peace.</p>