Given that the Bible condones it.
2007-01-03 01:12:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
MartinS: If these are Christian ideals, then why do Christians fight them?
2007-01-03 01:27:30 · update #1
Slavery was abolished by New Testament Christians and this morality was imposed upon the rest of the pagan nations in this world. Other than the issue of slavery, what great moral advances have been seen in this CONSTANT evolution? Women's sufferage or equal rights for different races? Gee, that comes right out of the New Testament also.
Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
If Jesus hadn't come and taught these moral principles to mankind it's doubtful that people would have implemented them on their own. The onlly reason it took so long was because the Bible wasn't available to most people for about 1700 years.
Christians don't fight things like equal pay for equal work. Neither do they promote discrimination based upon race. They do fight the idea that men and women are exactly the same. Common sense tells us that they are not. Sure there have been people who called themselves Christians who fought against these things but they were not using what the Bible teaches, they were using what their current societies morals and traditions taught. That's why Jesus called the hyper-religious people of his day hypocrites, because they made the word of God void with their man made traditions.
Matthew 15:3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? (4) For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' (5) But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, (6) he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. (7) You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: (8) "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; (9) in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
2007-01-03 01:24:56 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If all human beings taken care of slaves because of the fact the bible commanded it would not have been the shame it is on the instant. Jesus Christ made salvation for Jew, gentile , unfastened and bond. God isn't any respecter of guy. many human beings in historic past have been born into specific circumstances: slavery being certainly one of them. Handicaps and disabilities are yet another. i do no longer help slavery and don't experience slavery grew to become into constrained to epidermis colour or race. Asians, Latinos, Africans, Europeans and human beings have all been sure via slavery at one time or yet another. conflict crimes, intercourse slave commerce, migrant exertions. The masters abused the familiar jobs commanded interior the OT and the commandments interior the NT.
2016-10-06 09:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morality is not evolving it is digressing! mankind is not growing morally at all bet regressing back to a barbaric state.
40 yrs ago telling someone to kill a baby in the womb would have been seen as an atrocity.
Now we think of it as common place.
Of course most people here cannot relate to anything before 1990!
Rom.1 give us the reason why we are in the state we are.
2007-01-03 01:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by question man 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First: The Bible does not condone slavery. It does acknowledge it and instructs how slaves are to act and be treated. Second: Morality does not evolve, it changes. A few years ago it was socially acceptable to smoke. Today, it is not. A few years ago virginity was in and homosexuality was out. Now it's reversed. I could go on...but why bother........
MORALITY IS NOT EVOLVING...IT'S DETERIORATING!
2007-01-03 01:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Morality was created by humans - and so it constantly evolves and depends upon variables like culture, era, etc, etc.
At one time it was not moral for a woman to show her ankles in public - now we have string bikinis.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-01-03 01:34:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe we are all slaves. The question is who are we slaves to? The elite? Capitalism? The government?
Chew on that one for a while ;)
2007-01-03 01:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bow down to me 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Slavery is a social system, I believe. Right from the beginning, Islam worked a plan to gradually end slavery.
Peace
2007-01-03 01:20:14 · answer #7 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I wonder if it is still ok to take the virgin women of lands that you invade.. I'm sure Iraq still has some virgin women left....
2007-01-03 01:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You mean I have to let my slave girls go? Heck!
2007-01-03 01:17:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
it's ok, it's just against the law.
2007-01-03 01:21:42 · answer #10 · answered by jinenglish68 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋