I won’t argue Matthew since either way you look at it, it’s bad. Right there we’ve shown not everything he says is loving.

Yes, everyone had slaves. But slavery is slavery, I’m not interested in the different flavors of slavery or justifying it because everyone did it. Jesus speaking about it and relating his people to slaves while not condemning it seems evil af to me. It’s owning people, it’s clearly wrong.

I don’t misunderstand the difference, but you seem to think Jewish slavery was apparently not that big of a deal. I think owning someone, even if they seem like part of the family, is still wrong. Indentured servitude is wrong. Trying to split hairs is just justifying it. Jesus said “and a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.” Doesn’t sound loving to me.

Here are some of the rules for Jewish slaves, and the consequences for hurting them

• A master who knocked out a slave’gs eye or tooth must let him go free. No punishment, you just get to be free without an eye now.

• If a master beat or harmed a slave, the slave could go free. Again no punishment, you just get to actually be free

Kind seems like they aren’t treated fair. Jesus could have said something about that, but he never did. In fact he spoke to it without issue.