Sentences with phrase «condemn slavery»

Paul did not condemn slavery, just asked that one be freed because he was now Christian.

It was not, he argues, that the Catholic Church did not condemn slavery, as many believe; it was that no one listened.

So to say the reason they didn't condemn slavery was because they didn't want a rebellion is just an excuse.

The answer is when He commanded to love thy neighbor as thyself, it was somehow tacitly implied that He condemned slavery.

There is none condemning slavery.

There is nothing in the Scriptures that condemns slavery.

Kermit, if one is to take the Bible literally at it's word, there is nothing in it whatsoever that specifically condemns slavery.

[Noll also points to arguments put forth by some abolitionists that said that while the Bible never condemns slavery per se, it does condemn the kind of slavery practiced in the American South.

Until the 16th century, the only recorded instance of any churchman or theologian, anywhere, condemning all slavery was St. Gregory of Nyssa in the 4th century.

The passages I posted were merely to refute Live4Him's assertion that the Bible explicitly condemns slavery.

The church has at times changed its moral teachings — for example, it condemned slavery after having accepted it for centuries.

The Southerners replied that Jesus nowhere condemned slavery nor ever spoke a word against it.

@Russ, Neither Galatians nor Philemon seem to be condemning slavery, just discouraging, though not disallowing, Christians from owning other Christians.

Not exact matches

You made the comment, «If the Bible offers us the perfect morals it is often claimed to teach, IT SHOULD condemn all forms of slavery, clearly and unequivolcally.»

If the Bible offers us the perfect morals it is often claimed to teach, it should condemn all forms of slavery, clearly and unequivocally.

In any case, * I * don't need defend the Bible on this — I'm sure the author can explain to us how a correct translation of the OT actually * condemns * slavery.

If there can be imported into the guarantee of a republican form of government a moral content to condemn segregation, it is difficult to understand why the same moral reasoning would not have enabled the pre-Civil War Court to end slavery.

This is the American version of slavery and it was specifically condemned and prohibited in the Bible.

Yet you seem to speak as if the truth of the practice of slavery being immoral is universally understood and appeal to the teachings of Christ to support this notion... yet He Himself never condemned it, even including the practice in many of His parables.

Amos condemns those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, selling them into slavery for small debts, lying beside the altars on garments taken in pledge and not returned before night (Amos 2:6 - S).

At the end of the day Anna, the bible is found to be far less reliable in condemning homosexuality than it is in supporting slavery and misogyny.

But today, thankfully, slavery is universally condemned by Christians as being contrary to the will of God.

After that, there were a few instances when popes condemned the Atlantic slave trade for its cruelties; and in the 18th and 19th centuries, Protestant abolitionists in England and America produced theological arguments against slavery merely as such.

3:10), is implicit elsewhere in the Bible, though generally on a more communal basis as it is assumed that work is the duty of the «house,» or family unit.6 There is division of labor in the Bible and there is slavery, but little suggestion of a class stratification condemning manual labor as inferior.

One: solve the problem of evil, two: show how miracles could be possible, three: why oh why does God condem the coveting of your neighbour's ass, in the bible, but why doesn't God, in the same Bible, condemn the terrible crime of slavery?

Isn't it remarkable that atheists, who did virtually nothing to oppose slavery, condemn Christians, who are the ones who abolished it?

Russell Hammond, Hollywood «Actually, slavery was not condemned in the bible.

Actually, slavery was not condemned in the bible.

«Abusing» slaves was condemned but not the practice of slavery.

Each group felt that it had found more light yet in God's Word either to defend slavery or to condemn it.

If slavery was an evil or sin, would not Jesus or Paul have condemned it by name?

Both sides thought they knew God's will in this matter, and both sides quoted God's Word, either to defend slavery or to condemn it.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.slavery by the law of nations.»

I think that anyone with common sense will see that this statement, coupled with the current social landscape proves the hypocrisy of those who use the bible to condemn their fellow man: «A literal reading of the Bible was used to justify all sorts of hatred: slavery, the subjugation of women and anti-Semitism, scholars and pastors say.»

The environment «poisoned by ordinariness, mediocrity and clear agenda to destroy talents» is from you, your fellow pastors and your churches that have condemned the people to such mental slavery that they are unable to think as creatures of a God who created us in his image.

When he is initially abducted in Washington, D.C., en route to the South, the omniscient camera leaves his cell and looks over toward Capitol Hill to condemn a government still 24 years from outlawing slavery.

Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man that condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart.

Judah takes the blame, and under threat of punishment himself, Messala condemns his adoptive mother (Ayelet Zurer) and sister (Sofia Black - D'Elia) to death, while sentencing Judah to a life of slavery within the Roman navy.

And just as there were once people arguing that the Bible supported slavery, there are now people claiming that the Bible condemns homosexuality.

And I don't «condemn» Judeo - Christian ethics for the advent of slavery, etc..

Gary is apparently a Christian and he is so bold as to advocate for Judeo - Christian ethics, which you condemn for the advent of slavery, crusades, wiping out natives, pestilence and dogs sleeping with cats.