The Bible could not have been written or divinely inspired by an omnibenevolent god.

your argument completely falls apart because you are assuming a holy book is supposed to be a flat, unalterable code dropped out of heaven to be practiced forever. The Bible isn't structured like that. It is an open historical narrative tracking a progressive journey.

the New Testament explicitly states that the civil, physical, and martial laws of the Old Covenant—including the ancient Near Eastern regulations on debt servitude were temporary concessions tailored to a brutal, tribal bronze-age sandbox. God met a primitive society exactly where they were in their broken culture and strictly regulated, humanized, and restricted their existing practices step-by-step to pull them out of absolute savagery.

under the Mosaic Law, servants retained fundamental human status. If a master caused even a minor permanent injury like a broken tooth, the worker went totally free immediately (Exodus 21). If a master killed a servant, he faced capital execution. More importantly the Bible universally mandates the death penalty for human kidnapping and trafficking in Exodus 21:16. By definition, the modern transatlantic slave trade was a capital crime under Old Testament law.those old civil laws were just temporary scaffolding.

Jesus legally satisfied, absorbed, and retired that entire physical, geopolitical framework on the Cross. He explicitly moved the Kingdom of God entirely away from earthly borders and shifted the law permanently to the universal human heart. It was the explosive moral power of this Gospel the realization that every human shares equal dignity as an image bearer of God that drove devout Christians like William Wilberforce to morals-clash with the world and ultimately wipe chattel slavery off the face of the earth.you are trying to treat a dynamic, progressive covenantal journey as if it were a permanent, modern legal manual just to claim a contradiction. You are literally blaming the scaffolding for not being the finished building. The facts don't back your argument.

For that matter, let's define "the Bible." The material in the standard King James or Catholic Bible today? Or the material excised in the 325 CE Nicean Council?