sometimes it's loving and necessary to give people a good smack homosexuality is bad men are men and women are women, both are equal imagebearers of god with different purposes slavery isn't shown as something good, a fourth servile rebellion in rome just wasn't what nascent christendom needed to bring about god's will on earth, so the epistle instructs slaves to behave sometimes it's loving and necessary to wholly eradicate a people if the omniscient author of the universe says so sometimes it's loving and necessary to give people a good smack
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