Scriptures

123:34 Does the Old Testament say that God commanded Abraham to:

A. Own a slave?

B. Give a slave to his wife, Sarai, to own?

C. Use the slave of his wife, Sarai, as a concubine?

D. Give the child of the slave to his wife, Sarai?

I believe that Sarai is the one who told her husband to use her slave, Sarai, as a concubine to produce a child, whom she would then claim as her own. I don't buy the idea that God commanded that this happen. There is much evidence in the bible that God hates that mankind owns slaves and calls some of them concubines.  

Genesis 16 is where the story is in the Old Testament, of Sarai giving her slave handmaid, Hagar, to her husband to use basically as a surrogate mother. They did not have reproductive specialists then. I am upset that slavery wasn't frowned upon by Abraham and Sarai, but the fact that this story is in the bible doesn't mean that all of this thet happened was commanded of God or that it was God's will.

The way I see it, since God=Love:  _all_ messages of God that can be found in scripture or anywhere else must be compatible with the true nature of lovingness.  If the statements made cannot be compatible, then they weren't of God.

So realizing the whole nature of Love is what is important here.