Covenant Theology 33: Epochs & Ages

With Yeshua, the Christ, as the Redeemer-Mediator whose Person & Work underwrites them all… Edenic     Theme: Creation  Age: Pre-Classical Prophetic, Priestly, & Prophetic Age of (Mutable) Liberty & Life, & Fellowship  Earthly Administrator: Adam  Adamic/Antediluvian  Theme: Toil & Sorrow/Preschool Age: Classical Prophetic Age of Conscience  Earthly Administrator: Adam  Noahic / Aegis  Theme: Aegis/Moral Government/ Age: Neo-Prophetic Age of Human Government  Earthly Administrator:    Noah  Abrahamic Theme: Promises & New Beginnings  Age: Monarchial Age of Promise  Earthly Administrator:    Abraham Mosaic Theme: Law & Conquest Age: Classical Monarchial Age (God is Monarch) Earthly Administrator: Moses  Davidic   Theme: Monarchy Age: Neo - Monarchial Age  Earthly Administrator: Samuel (He - not the Monarachs, exercises the power of the tripartite keys) Johannine...
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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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