06-22-2020, 01:52 PM
(06-22-2020, 01:31 PM)michaelsean Wrote: If you are taking the traditional Christian view then yes. And I know your next question. Isn’t slavery a sin? He doesn’t spend a lot of time singling our specific sins. The golden rule covers it pretty well. The beatitudes doesn’t a pretty good job.
I don’t think slavery is a sin according to the Bible. But, in my opinion, I think it should be. I think slavery is more immoral than some of the Ten Commandments.
Who decides what is or isn’t a sin? God, correct? If you sin you go to hell. Jesus came to save us. Save us from what? Our sin. Who decides what is sin? God. If Jesus didn’t come to make the world a better place, but rather to save the individual; why did god create sin? If god wasn’t trying to make the world a better place with teachings such as murder is a sin, then what was god doing?
I just question the moral authority of a god who would damn me for taking his name in vain, but gives tacit approval to slavery by instructing slaves to obey their masters. I don’t understand the logic.
