Paul

Just some thoughts:

The apostle Paul writes letters to churches and answers specific questions and give general (apostolic) advice to the churches in mind. What he does and does not speak speak about says something about the culture the Jesus Movement developed in and also about the Jesus Movement the culture was challanged by.

So why did he chose to bring up the questions of homosexuality and fornication and slavery and children and all those othe issues? Because they were important to deal with in the addressed church.

All this I guess was imortant and in many cases are important to us, since our culures emerge in the same fallen creation and share most of the issues.
Still I can wish he would have said more about social injustice and explicitly cendemned cruisades beforehand and so on.

But hey, is’nt that our task?

To be in slavery is undoubtly a condition no human beeing is worthy of. I guess that is wh its strictly regaulated in the Mosaic Law. And Paul never defends the Roman societys system of slavery. Still it was at the apostles time not the same thing as what we sometimes refer to: milions of black people in chains, treated like dogs.

Thats an interesting question:
“Is Paul wrong about both?”

My humble answer would be that the ‘versus’ is the problem. The fact that Paul never deals with the systematic problem (sin) of having people working in your home and in your company for a low sallary on a long term contract under your athority is one thing. You just cant ‘own’ people. (I say as 21th cenury western).

Men sleaping with men is another thing. One just cant compare. Pears an apples. Paul did not make that list of more or less sinfull things.

So if I still would want to answer your question I would say: neither.