Slavery

Slavery has marked every culture and era, taking many forms and affecting all peoples. While private slavery is widely condemned today, modern societies increasingly practice state slavery through expanding bureaucratic control, regulation, and dependency over citizens. True freedom, Scripture teaches, is not political but spiritual. Slavery begins with bondage to sin, and only Christ can make men truly free. Where Christian faith declines, slavery old or new inevitably returns, and societies drift toward control, conformity, and loss of liberty.