On Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 11:16:59 AM UTC-7, Curtis Eagal wrote:
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> The King James Bible ostensibly endorses slavery and other overtly immoral concepts,
> which was antagonistic to abolition efforts.
Slavery predates the Bible. What the Bible did was put guidelines on how
slaves should be treated, and that they should be freed upon the death of
the slaveholder. If the Bible had come along and immediately banned
slavery, the Bible would have been ignored and the guidelines it did put
in place would never have existed. Slavery would have gone on as it
always had.
If anything, the Bible eventually led to the abolition of slavery, which would
never have happened if the pagans who invented slavery and originally
practiced it had not had those guidelines put in place by the Bible.
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> The Confederate states contended the North was at fault
The slaveholders in the Confederate states did not abide by the guidelines
given in the Bible. They tried to use the Bible as an excuse to keep their
slaves, but they were wrong. Every slave should have been set free upon
the death of the slaveholder. They should not have been passed down from
generation to generation.
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> for not returning their human property which had transported themselves to freedom,
Well, finally the United States went to war to end slavery on this continent.
That was after ALL the Northern states had banned slavery within 25 years
of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. So, slavery that was
brought here by Europeans was ended by Americans. And when the
Confederate states did not want to give up their slaves, the United States
of America insisted that they do.
But does the United States ever get any credit for ending an institution
that was already here when the United States came into existence? No,
of course not. All you leftists would rather hate your own country than
give it credit for doing something that needed to be done -- namely
ending slavery.
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> adding the African races were well-suited to work in the warm climate, making their enslavement
> an economic priority. Hebrew Law allows for a slave to be freed after seven years, without
> whatever family members they had who were also owned, or receive a mark in public for
> permanently relinquishing their freedom.
Thank you for pointing that out. Did the Confederates that you cited above do
that, or did they not do that?
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> Telling someone to read and believe everything in the Bible is irresponsible,
> since implicitly no critical reasoning is being applied to the convoluted tales, nefarious
> intrigues and diametrically opposing instructions that comprise the various scriptures.
I realize you like to pick and choose which parts of the Bible you feel
like following, and which you don't. I have noticed that you feel free
to ignore the parts of the Bible tell us to stay away from astrologers,
mediums, divination and sorcery.
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> Hate your enemy
There is no command in the Bible to hate one's enemy. In fact, Jesus
said we are to love our enemies -- which is a difficult concept for some
of us, but it's the command for which we are supposed to strive.
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> or turn the other cheek, the correct path is clear, so the negative one is from the enemy
> and needs to be taken out by the root.
That's exactly what Jesus did in Matthew 5:43-44. The teaching to
which he referred about hating one's enemy did not come from the
Bible. But I am certain it did come from the enemy.
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> Biblical texts are historic-episodic, with stories centuries apart suggesting variations on
> themes developing from the Genesis family era, undergoing permutations through reincarnation
> in different relationships. Judas betraying Jesus in this sense could be a replay of Cain killing
> his brother Abel.
So you don't really believe the Gospels? Are you actually JTEM pretending
to be someone else?
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> The Bible is a collection of recorded stories about perceived metaphysical interactions
> and dubious human responses.
In other words, you're an atheist.