The Narrow Path Ministries

Hi Steve, Thank you for your promt and clear response. I must confess now (as perhaps I should have in my previous request) that I was also a bit stumbled by this verse. My friend had called it to my attention when I shared his agnostic worldview, so we used it then to poke fun at Scripture. But eve...

Hey Steve, I have a friend who has a similar objection to a similar passage: "If a man beats his servant or his maidservant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a day or two, he shall not be punished for he is his property." Ex...