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Regarding masters and slaves –

1) The differences are purely prosaic & have no substantive meaning
~ This is implausible as the words used are quite different and non-parallel;

2) The instructions are intended only a particular set of specific individuals or only to the specific culture being addressed and are not universal.
~ This in unsupportable due to in text commentary of the apostles on the matter; each time the apostle discusses the matter he makes no reference whatsoever to the particular circumstance or culture.

3) The instructions are intended to be universal as part of the current created order (whether due to God’s original design or as a result of the Fall it is the proper order now)

NN,

Do you believe in natural slavery? Perhaps those humans with the intellect of Labradoodles should be slaves of physics instructors.

PS. I would also like to know if you are familiar with the use of hupotasso in 1 Clement 38 as referenced in BDAG, and are you aware that Clement, Chrysostom and Calvin, for starters, all interpreted submission to a neighbour as NOT relating to authority. Since “love your neighbour as yourself” represents a truly symmetric relationship, and is the most important law of Christ next to loving God, and imposing your authority on anyone at all is not found in the Bible, I have to wonder if we are refering the same Bible, or if you have some other text.