Monday, February 24, 2025

Dialogue With Skeptic (Part 5) Slavery

Objection:  Jesus never condemned slavery!  Why does God need slavery? 

Reply: God needing slavery & allowing it because He refuses to infantize us aren’t convertible propositions.  

What does the Sermon On the Mount teach?   Via the 3 Uses (Individual, Ecclesiastical, Governmental)… 

It teaches we are not to murder, & we are not even “Raca” them with denigrating language like we find in the Antebellum South all the way to the present day.  (Matt. 5:21 - 22)

It teaches that we are to replicate & restore to communities we have historically failed.  If the jackbooted Roman soldier (the person you regard as property or long ago would have) demands or otherwise requests that you release him from bondage, we are to release him from bondage (replicate) & make reparations to them (restore). (Matt. 5:41 - 48)

It teaches we are to make provision for food, clean water, & clothing (shelter). the necessities of life, individually & communally without oppressing those for whom we make provision, especially the least of these.  (Matt. 6:25 - 34).  

Slavery robs people of dignity, economy, & liberty.  Which principles in the Sermon On the Mount do you think rob people of those things? 

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