In I Peter 2,
Christian slaves of unjust masters are urged to imitate the way of the cross: «For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps....
Not exact matches
If you are going to say the Bible says what is right and wrong, then you can not ignore the facts in the Bible
of which say how you can own
slaves and how you can treat them
of which we ALL are absolutely morally opposed to (even
Christians).
In this theology gay and lesbian
Christians have the same status earlier attributed to
slaves and currently attributed to women, the status
of those excluded from the traditional church.
1 63 million Second World War 20C (
Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs.
Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall
of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form
of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast
Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic
Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (
Christians vs.
Christians) 15 million Conquest
of the Americas 15C - 19C (
Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest
of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (
Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall
of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (
Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (
Christians vs
Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall
of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm
Taking into account hundreds
of years
of crusades, various inquisitions and witch burnings, not including all those good
Christian southerners who held
slaves of their own...
Even today, there are probable lots
of Christians who will blame Islam for Muslims becoming
slaves, with the thought that they deserve what they get for not converting to Christianity.
Some
Christians have justified mistreating women or owning
slaves because
of what they say they say Bible says.
christians had justified owning
slaves because
of the story
of Ham.
Yet, for hundreds
of years, the majority
of Christians saw no problem with owning
slaves.
Catholics, Baptist, and
Christians even Jews had
slaves and killed and transported Millions
of Black, Natives, and Asians... Never has Mormons ever did these things on record..
Evidently, you have never heard
of John Newton — the former
slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words
of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem
of the
Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.
1 63 million Second World War 20C (
Christians et al and Communists vs.
Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall
of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form
of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast
Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic
Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (
Christians vs.
Christians) 15 million Conquest
of the Americas 15C - 19C (
Christians vs pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest
of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (
Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall
of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (
Christians vs
Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall
of the Yuan Dynasty 14C
Catholics are damned to be
slaves of their sinfulness and thus we can hardly expect them to behave as true
Christians in daily life.
We have been set free from sin and our responsibility as
Christians is to work together with Christ in the power
of the Holy Spirit to stay that way,
slaves of God.
To review: In their letters to the early church, the apostles Peter and Paul include what you might call a
Christian remix
of the traditional Greco - Roman household codes, which detailed the responsibilities
of a male head -
of - house, his wives,
slaves, and adult children (see Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and 1 Peter 3).
Furthermore, in the book
of Philemon, a
Christian had a
slave that ran away, and was converted by Paul, and Paul told the
Christian to accept the
slave back as a brother.
The series will be similar to our Mutuality Week from 2012, but will focus specifically on those frequently - cited passages
of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands,
slaves to submit to their masters, children to submit to their parents, and
Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).
The «prevailing
Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion
of the rapture, the equality
of women, the emancipation
of slaves, and a host
of other things that most
Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.
He even married a Jewish woman, Safijah, and a
Christian slave, Marie, who was given him by the ruler
of Egypt.
''... the right
of holding
slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding
of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the
Christian Church.
Christian anti-slavery charity Hope for Justice has encouraged those appalled by the recent exposure
of the Libyan
slave trade to take action against the injustice.
Out
of the original
Christian hope for the imminent coming
of the Kingdom
of God evolved the institution
of the church (in which there was to be «neither Jew nor Greek, neither
slave nor free, neither male nor female»); 3 this eventually developed into Christendom.
Later, Nympha will read other letters, letters that speak
of husbands loving their wives as much as Christ loved the church, willing to give their lives for them, and
of Christians «submitting to one another» and living as «
slaves to one another»!
This is the second post in a weeklong series entitled «Submit One To Another: Christ and the Household Codes,» which will focus on those frequently - cited passages
of Scripture that instruct wives to submit to their husbands,
slaves to obey their masters, children to obey their parents, and
Christians to submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21 - 6:9, Colossians 3:12 - 4:6; 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22).
Romany and Ryan, union
of hindu's, ignorant s, One hindu ignorant pseudo Jew, self centered and other, a hindu ignorant Catholic compounded gentile,
slave of hindu Jew's, filthy secular's, Lord have mercy on USA, hindu, blind leading hindu's, blinds labeled as
Christians.
Through the work primarily
of feminist
christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the
slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images
of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that
of their sisters.
Again with regard to the
slaves Lincoln showed better sense and truer
Christian insight than many
of the ministers
of his day.
The customary term for this kind
of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into
Christian speech by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a
slave and one by a free woman.
The public not having any solid charge, brought the non-
Christian slaves of the
Christian prisoners and tortured them.
From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy»
of the Bible, who warn
Christians to be suspicious
of ideas that come from non-
Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for
slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that
Christians and only
Christians should preside over earthly institutions.
One
of Butler's most provocative chapters has to do with the African «spiritual holocaust,» during which time white
Christians worked to uproot and proscribe the African religious ethos in
slaves before they took pains to offer
Christian alternatives.
those
slave drivers werent
christians, neither were the crusaders or any evil causes by the shroud
of «christianity»
8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the
Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help
of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience
of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them
slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»
They celebrated Easter by bombing an ancient church, and their
slave markets list their «property» according to age and religion, with
Christian and Êzidî girls from the age
of one on sale.
Pagels grants that many
Christians were themselves
slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched outcasts with the message
of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»
But all people are no
Christian secondly we as African Americans was taught by our
slave owners
of Christianity.
Nor would she object to the evangelical
Christian William Wilberforce opposing the
slave trade in England on the basis
of his faith.
«One must not suppose these
slaves do not exercise their reason» observed Andrews, despite the extreme frustration he felt in his struggle to teach the Pulayas.43 Notwithstanding the limitations in the explicit communication
of the
Christian message, certain ideas appear to have made a stronger appeal to the Pulayas than to anyone else.
We had the first baptism
of slave converts in the Velloor school; between fifty and sixty were present, and (from) the numerous candidates for baptism nineteen were admitted into the visible Church
of Christ... Their hearty responses and decided, brief and pointed answers as to motives... -LCB- and -RCB- strictly consistent
Christian conduct for many months past,... left no doubts on our minds that many
of these, I hope all, were already members
of the invisible Church
of Christ.36
I think Bob has stated perfectly why people are leaving this faith, because many aspects
of it are implausible and unreasonable... which many
Christians fully admit (God doesn't want us to use the brain he gifted us with, He just wants simple obedience / faith — like a drone or
slave).
The specific focus is religious practices and
Christian engagement during the «Middle Passage,» the horrific middle leg
of the
slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in
slave ships and shipped to the Americas.
So throughout his writings, and in a great variety
of ways, he elaborated his concept
of the individual,
of the person who is free to grow in
Christian love, hope, joy and peace because he or she is not a spiritual
slave to social context.
(Ephesians 6:5 NLT)
Christians who are
slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name
of God and his teaching will not be shamed.
what i don't understand is why one part
of the bible, this part for example is the word
of god, but the other parts that tell
Christians to do things like buy
slaves and kill untruly children and stuff is NOT the law
of god.
Q7) Do you consider any none
Christians «Religious or not Religious», as
Slaves of God and not as Godly as you are?
Instead, atheism is a product
of Christian faith, which he saw as «
slave morality.»
Ever since the introduction
of Negro
slaves into Virginia in 1619, many
Christians had been uneasy about the buying and selling
of their fellow human beings.
Black folks please read the evil words towards
christians here by radical dems and come home to the party
of lincoln who freed ur people from
slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top
of all polls now with repubs
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