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<blockquote data-quote="DrDeanCrosby" data-source="post: 2594216" data-attributes="member: 875516">The Christian Position On SlaveryMost of those who oppose the Christian faith do so in their doubts about the divinity of Jesus.Seldom are His teachings criticized but occasionally questions are raised about His apparent acceptance of slavery.Actually the Bible does not record Jesus commenting on the morality of slavery.Here is one of His few comments on the subject,using it as a parable: &quot; No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.&quot;(Luke 16:13) Hardly an endorsement of slavery! But the fact remains that Jesus never condemned slavery.Why not? Since literally tens of thousands have been killed and literally hundreds of thousands have had their bodies permanently maimed because the military convinced them to devote their lives to &quot;fighting for freedom&quot; don&#039;t you think it&#039;s finally time to question Jesus&#039; position on what has literally become a life and death issue? The lack of concern about slavery that Jesus showed is extremely important for Christians to understand because it can prevent then from obtaining salvation should they fail to do so.While trying to survive in this the Age of Church Apostasy when it is common to see ministers preaching hate and support for the violence and even the crimes against humanity of warfare while standing next to the American flag in their pulpits,it is absolutely essential to understand that Christianity as opposed to political Churchanity, teaches and demands a separation from the world and its problems;an essential truth to internalize&nbsp; as we enter the political pre-election season. In God&#039;s mind the problems of the world are not only irrelevant within&nbsp; His eternal time perspective, but even more important,by focusing on them ( ie.the &quot;war on terrorism&quot;) we fill our minds with hate,the desire to retaliate and the deep anxiety the false god NATION creates for us.In fact &quot;fighting for freedom&quot; which we are taught is a honorable way to devote ones life invariably leads to &quot; hatred, contentions,&nbsp; outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions,&nbsp; murders, drunkenness and revelries&quot;, the very activities that Galatians 5:19-21 tells us &quot; those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.&quot;&nbsp;Rather we need to become mentally preoccupied with the love,forgiveness and peace that the real God will give us if we keep our minds focused on Him rather than on one of the false gods that abound in our country or the problems of the world which tragically are about to become exponentially more severe as we travel still further into the&nbsp; Tribulation period.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DrDeanCrosby, post: 2594216, member: 875516"] [b]The Christian Position On Slavery[/b] Most of those who oppose the Christian faith do so in their doubts about the divinity of Jesus.Seldom are His teachings criticized but occasionally questions are raised about His apparent acceptance of slavery.Actually the Bible does not record Jesus commenting on the morality of slavery.Here is one of His few comments on the subject,using it as a parable: " No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."(Luke 16:13) Hardly an endorsement of slavery! But the fact remains that Jesus never condemned slavery.Why not? Since literally tens of thousands have been killed and literally hundreds of thousands have had their bodies permanently maimed because the military convinced them to devote their lives to "fighting for freedom" don't you think it's finally time to question Jesus' position on what has literally become a life and death issue? The lack of concern about slavery that Jesus showed is extremely important for Christians to understand because it can prevent then from obtaining salvation should they fail to do so.While trying to survive in this the Age of Church Apostasy when it is common to see ministers preaching hate and support for the violence and even the crimes against humanity of warfare while standing next to the American flag in their pulpits,it is absolutely essential to understand that Christianity as opposed to political Churchanity, teaches and demands a separation from the world and its problems;an essential truth to internalize as we enter the political pre-election season. In God's mind the problems of the world are not only irrelevant within His eternal time perspective, but even more important,by focusing on them ( ie.the "war on terrorism") we fill our minds with hate,the desire to retaliate and the deep anxiety the false god NATION creates for us.In fact "fighting for freedom" which we are taught is a honorable way to devote ones life invariably leads to " hatred, contentions, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, murders, drunkenness and revelries", the very activities that Galatians 5:19-21 tells us " those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." Rather we need to become mentally preoccupied with the love,forgiveness and peace that the real God will give us if we keep our minds focused on Him rather than on one of the false gods that abound in our country or the problems of the world which tragically are about to become exponentially more severe as we travel still further into the Tribulation period. [/QUOTE]

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