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Christian Democrats wrote:

So your interpretations of the Bible are arbitrary?

In human communication, metaphor is largely unavoidable. Almost all speech contains metaphor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor

I take it for what it says. I do not pretend there is, or could be, a reason why slavery is OK, or that using servant instead of slave changes the context. However, if you are against slavery, you do, because the bible condones slavery. It may not be the same as American slavery, but it even says how hard you can beat your slaves. I don't buy it, and needing to jump through hoops to make it make sense to me doesn't improve thinks.

But a speech days not have my eternal soul on the line and the bible is suppose to not only be the word of God, and not people, but God is suppose to be clear in his intent. Do you know of a reason plain language could not be used by God? Perhaps some great fact of the universe that is obvious could have been used.