The Bible makes slavery persmissible. Please don't give me that old testement we don't live under stuff, no where does Jesus remove the slavery laws. Please also don't give me the stereotypical it was different then stuff, Exodus 21:20-21 says the master who beats the slave goes unpunished if the slave lives after a day, and in Leviticus 25:45 it says its ok to own children as slave property?
Many American Christians do not own slaves. Jesus never said slavery was immorral?
Where do these Christians get their morality, if its not from the Bible, then where?
Is it their consciousness, society "the world"; common sense?
I hate to break it to you, but score one for the Atheists on this one folks. Ok, game over. Atheists win. This might just be the end of jim darwin. There won't be one single religious person's answer to this question that will be either logical or will make sense.
2006-09-25 08:37:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Was it not God that said love ur neighbour like u love urself... Treat others like u want to be treated.. That which u sow u will reap.. I can name many more examples. U are very good at taking things out of context. Things have changed like it or not, we live by the New Testament now, in the days of the old Testament things were different. I'll pray for u Jim Darwin, I see in u a confused individual in desperate need of saving
2006-09-25 08:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I really ask myself the same thing. Not only regarding slavery but many contradictions in the Bible, there are many many things in the Bible they don't follow. I recently asked here how they decide which parts of the Bible they follow, I got 33 answers to this but only one person (the last answerer) admitted that he picks and chooses. Others just said they followed the whole Bible although obviously they don't do so. I don't think anyone really takes his morals from the Bible. Their morals are based on society, history, common sense.... then they quote the passages from the Bible that fit.... you know there was slavery in America for a long time and Christians used the Bible to justify it. The fact that it was abolished only shows that people finally got better morals out of themselves than they could get out of this book.
And yeah, you won't get an answer from a Christian for this that makes sense as they can't admit this. They know it but they can't admit, so they just repeat they followed the Bible.
By the way I am not so sure that all the white American Christians today think that slavery was such a bad thing... maybe some of them would love to have slaves again? but they can't because no one will accept to be their slave anymore.....
2006-09-25 08:53:22 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God isn't trying to score points with you, and neither am I. Did you forget that he allowed His own people to be enslaved? Also in Leviticus 25, God gave His people permission to buy slaves from among the heathen, and this was made possible by the fact that their own people were selling them. God didn't make it mandatory, and He did not forbid it. So why are you asking why American Christians do not own slaves? God has made divorce permissable in some cases but you don't see every Christian running out to get one. Slavery is against the law here, and God said to obey the laws of the land as long as it doesn't interfere with the laws of God.
2006-09-25 09:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by DJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Critical isn't it?
You seem to make up a lot.
That scripture says if a man smite his servant and he dies then he shall be punished.
It does not establish your context.
Ever get tired of make up?
Maybe the questions you ask are more burdensome inside than to others.
You , again have to read more than one scripture.
Another one who begins assembly at instruction #8.
2006-09-25 08:56:15 · answer #4 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians get their morals from the Lord:
[2] THE PARTICULARS OF FAITH ON MAN'S PART are:
(1) God is one, in whom is a Divine trinity, and the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ is that one.
(2) Saving faith is to believe in Him.
(3) Evils should not be done, because they are of the devil and from the devil.
(4) Goods should be done, because they are of God and from God.
(5) These should be done by man as if by himself; but it should be believed that they are done by the Lord in man and through man.
2006-09-25 08:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Five minutes in, and no Fundies have answered. Hmmm....
Edit: I'm with Mira. Y!A needs Jim Darwin.
2006-09-25 08:43:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They are talking about people who would work off debts.
Did you read the whole chapter.
2006-09-25 08:50:37 · answer #7 · answered by Casey M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does this make them more moral than their own God?
2006-09-25 09:25:09 · answer #8 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We answered where we get our morals. Where are the fundies when the same question is posed to them????
2006-09-25 08:48:48 · answer #9 · answered by buttercup 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not the end of Jim Darwin :( That would suck mega talking donkey dong.
2006-09-25 08:46:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋