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The Bible records slavery, polygamy, and other harsh realities, but that doesn’t mean God endorsed them as ideals. Scripture shows God working within broken human systems to slowly elevate, restrain, and redeem, not through instant utopia, but through moral transformation.

For example, biblical slavery was radically different from Greco-Roman or colonial slavery. In ancient Israel, it was often a form of debt service, time-limited (Exodus 21), and protected by law. Kidnapping for slavery was punishable by death (Exodus 21:16). Foreign slaves could find protection and even join Israel (Deuteronomy 23:15-16). The trajectory pointed toward freedom and dignity.
Infanticide, by contrast, was never condoned. The God of the Bible explicitly condemned child sacrifice (Leviticus 18:21) and called children blessings. Where pagan cultures threw infants to the flames or into the wilderness, Christians rescued them, especially in the Roman Empire.

Pederasty? Absolutely condemned. Unlike the Greeks and Romans who normalized it, biblical law calls such practices abomination (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27). Christ elevated sexuality to a sacred union between man and woman, bound by covenant.
Christianity didn’t ignore sin, it exposed it. Christ didn’t approve of man’s cruelty; He died to conquer it. The fact that God tolerated man’s hardness of heart (Matthew 19:8) doesn’t mean He approved of it. Like a doctor dealing with disease, God works patiently through history to heal, not to instantly erase.

So no, God didn’t “permit” evil in the sense of endorsing it, He bore with fallen man to bring him step by step into light. That’s not moral compromise. That’s grace and long-suffering justice.