Posted on 1/7/2009, 4:55:01 PM by GodGunsGuts
Genesis: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
by Calvin Smith
Published: 6 January 2009
Most church leaders would agree that the western world is becoming ‘less Christian’ every year.
Worldviews
Nations once built upon biblical foundations are watching the collapse of godly values in our culture and Christians seem powerless to stop it. Competing worldviews like atheism, humanism, communism, new age, and the occult are being vigorously promoted in education, the media and one-on-one to children and adults alike.
But before we look at our own foundations, let’s look at those of the polar opposite of the Christian worldview—atheism. A-theism, by definition, states foundationally that there is ‘no God’. All worldviews provide answers to the big questions in life like ‘Where do we come from?’ How do atheists explain our origins without God?...
(Excerpt) Read more at creationontheweb.com ...
The OT specifically refers to the slave as property, and says that a slaveowner who beats his slave to death has been punished enough, because he loses his property. (Assuming the slave doesn't die on the same day as the beating.)
Revelation 18 condemns slavery and in destroying Mystery Babylon, God will destroy all those who made merchandise and profit from the souls of men
But...As metmom points out, once the printing press made the bible available to all, that is when we see very rapid advances in freedom.
Any thought that it could be the other works besides the bible that made the difference?
The bible had been available directly or indirectly for centuries. Perhaps the other works were the breath of fresh air that helped break the domination by the Church?
Sorry ... been away from the computer for a while — but I also started college at 12 and graduated at 17. I also believe in God!
Great post! Sums up my feelings perfectly.
I read Rev. 18 in its entirety and can find nothing condemning slavery. Which verse are you referring to?
The really interesting question is not whether the Bible contains some obscure or implied condemnation of slavery, but why no one noticed it for 1850 years.
It strikes me as rather a more significant moral principle than whether women wear hats in church.
Were you homeschooled?
Nope, but I always had supplementary education from my parents. They got me into the Early Entrance Program at CSULA and off I went at 12. Knew of two children in there at the age of 10.
The fundamental and **revolutionary** idea in the bible is that we are equal before God. You claim that the bible doesn't specifically condemn slavery, well it doesn't condemn littering, or pollution either, or a thousand other injustices either.
The broad concept of being equal in the eyes of God, together with the 2 Great Commandments ( loving God and neighbor as one’s self), eventually leads to a just society.
Shame on you for thinking slavery is a more serious moral issue than littering.
Well, yeah. So were the king whose power it limited and the people in all the other countries of Europe that didn't come up with a similar document. That doesn't really demonstrate anything.
That’s probably true, and that’s one of the reasons I believe as I do and don’t worry about others’ beliefs. I figure God made each of us the way He wanted.
But it does condemn men who cover their heads during prayer and stipulates women who don't cover their heads during prayer should have their hair cut off.
First of all, why regulate something so pedestrian and be silent one of mankind's most grave injustices? Secondly, why does most of modern Christiandom not enforce these biblical hairstyling rules? The Bible seems pretty clear on it, but it seems to be ignored by every Christian I know.
First of all, why regulate something so pedestrian and be silent one of mankind’s most grave injustices?
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Well....We’ll just have to ask God.
Hopefully we will both love God and our neighbor as ourselves and we will both see each other in heaven. :-)
LOL....so I show you you were wrong and this means I’m making your point for you...????
ummm...
OK.
GOOD LUCK!
Yes, you made my point for me. You admitted that nations with institutionalized slavery fell:
Wrong...civilizations have come and gone with slavery. Slavery doesn't doom a society to fall. As a matter of fact, far more civilizations have come and gone in the era of slavery than not.
Gone is the operative word. Got it?
Yes, but that is not the open and obvious kind of slavery; it's the hidden, structural, institutionalized kind of slavery to which the masses are subjected. Apples and Oranges WRT this discussion.
I’ve “looked it up” but you would be better served to look into study of scripture yourself, because it’s painfully apparent you know not of what you speak.
Where did she get it?
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