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I tried to make this case to a couple of elders once, they did not agree.  You're welcome to pick up the fight though.

Is it more likely that she was a Greek slave or a slave from an other country though!? When we think of a slave with think of an export but back then the slave trade wasn't extraordinarily large compared to what it has been. Either way its not clear cut but the origional one is black so  I find it ironic that so many liberties are taken to make her a magician but not a greek.

“These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar 21 by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.” Acts 16:20

They could have easily said Greeks but are using the term Romans to present a more favorable argument to the magistrates. It seems to me Damsel is included in "us" because she is the one who is literally practicing what is "unlawful"

Quote from: TheHobbit on June 04, 2015, 04:43:06 PM

I find it ironic that so many liberties are taken to make her a magician but not a greek.

That's completely wrong, she fits the Magician definition explicitly:

Damsel is the victim here. Possession is a lot different than using demonic powers for your advantage.

I backed it with a verse.

 Using it for profit implies that you used demonic forces to help you. The demon is the one doing the divining, after it is gone here owners are mad that she doesn't have special powers anymore (I doubt they believe she was possessed) so I don't see where it is helping her; the demon does all the work.

I backed it with a verse.

Your verse's support is very, very weak in the case of showing she was Greek, it isn't even clear that they were referring to the slave girl in the 'us', it sounds like they just got mad at Paul for cutting off their income so they went to the magistrate to try and get Paul and his friends arrested, whether they were true. There is no indication that they consider the slave girl as one of them.

And to make a point about slaves in the Roman Empire, they could have just been someone who was sold into slavery to pay a debt, or a child left by their parents and taken as a slave, or someone from a conquered territory (which could include Greece, since that was conquered by Rome and there were many Greek slaves in the Roman empire) or just as easily someone from Gaul, or Egypt, or Carthage, so there really isn't enough information to say she was any more Greek than Daniel was Babylonian when he was first imported (Daniel was an imported slave, albeit a highly educated and high class slave, but a slave nonetheless).

I guess we can't even joke around here 

Where was the joke exactly? I missed it somehow. 

I posted a video of Salena Gomeez singing ohoohoh its magic and it got deleted lol 

And it did.

Maybe I would if people stop deleting my posts, it gets old