This MOU between RNC and AFN further demonstrates our desire to strengthen relationships, build understanding and create sustainable community benefits as we progress the development of the Dumont project.
173-174). Godâs laws in the Old Testament not only regulated slavery (so that those enslaved would be given many rights that they otherwise would not have had), but they also supplied the means whereby fairness could be meted out with regard to criminal activity and debt.T]here is no reasonable doubt that the New Testament, like the Old, not only tolerated chattel slavery (the form prevalent in the Greco-Roman world of Paulâs time) but helped to perpetuate it by making the slavesâ obedience to their masters a religious duty.
Family and the Household: In the New Testament, the usual word for family is oikia, which means house or household. Therefore at the very least, the New Testament family includes everyone who lives in a house  this would include not just blood relatives, but also slaves and servants.n Christianity, the oikia was further broadened to include the church community as well: a church is the household of God. Familial relationships are thus models for spiritual relationships. Family & Marriage: The most obvious way that a family expands is through the birth of new members.