Fairly simple question. If the Bible speaks in favor of owning and keeping slaves, we can only assume that it would be permissible now. If that is the case, how could men such as Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson preach the gospel as well as fight for equal rights. ( Thankfully ) Seems like the owning of slaves would be a big problem for blacks or any suppressed race. Now I don’t know the types of people who were biblical slaves, but a slave is a slave! Seems contradicting to say the least.
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Didn't I just respond to this post a while ago?
Yes, you suggested a thread for it.
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@Pirate Jack: Now I don’t know the types of people who were biblical slaves
In Jesus' time, a large proportion of the slaves in the Roman world would have been Gauls or Britons from what are now France and England. The enslavement of Africans was justified by the Old Testament story of the Curse of Ham (Genesis 9:20-27).
I don't think Jesus ever speaks out against slavery. In fact, in Luke 7:1-10, he heals a Roman centurion's slave without ever suggesting he should set him free.
So it's puzzling that people like Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson should be so enthusiastic about a slaver creed like Christianity.
Algebe,
"So it's puzzling that people like Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson should be so enthusiastic about a slaver creed like Christianity."
As it says in Jeremiah 13:23 (ERV) = "A black man cannot change the color of his skin, and a leopard cannot change its spots. In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good. You always do bad things."
Isaiah 14:1-2 (ERV) = "The Lord will again show his love to Jacob. He will again choose the people of Israel. He will give them their land. Then the non-Israelites[a] will join the Israelites, and both will become one family—Jacob’s family. 2 Those nations will bring the Israelites back to their land. The men and women from the other nations will become slaves to Israel. In the past, those people forced the Israelites to become their slaves. But in the future the Israelites will defeat those nations, and Israel will then rule over them in the Lord’s land."
Imagine all of those Bible belt evangelicals as slaves. That would be too funny.
What is really telling about Martin Luther, The founder of Protestantism, is his complete and utter hatred of the Jews. "Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German Reformation leader, had a significant influence on German antisemitism by his bitterly hostile anti-Jewish statements and writings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism
But of course, Christianity, like Islam, is a religion of Peace.
@Cognostic: complete and utter hatred of the Jews
You can't build a great religion of love without a really good target for hatred.