nwtk2007 wrote:
The Bible also says women shouldn't be allowed to speak in front of the church but many, like the UMC, say that is wrong. Should we follow the entirety of the bible isn all things? Everyone is responsible for what they do, not their parents nor their ancestors.
Now the Bible is a history of how humanity matured. How it matured in faith, knowledge, reason, and wisdom.
There will be therefore rules that applied when humanity was at a point of that maturity, when mankind grew more mature then the old laws were no longer necessary, as St Paul the apostle said, "When I was a child, I thought like a child, I acted like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
Thus, by example the bible follows this precedence. So when the old testament is combined by the completeness of the new, the boy at Genesis, that needs guidance, becomes a man, that is self governing. This becomes with in human history and as asense of utopia, with the absence of mass control. For the control is established by the harmony of the nature of the human spirit.
Looking at the point of slavery which existed because the line of Cain practiced it, which it learned from the angels. But slavery is a tool used against the nature of the human nature. Slavery began due to the jealously of the angels which they taught to man, and the half angels or demi gods, these demi gods became demons after they died.
Therefore to justly charge for reparations of the slaves, and if you follow the precedence and premise of your question, the responsible must be held accountable for the sin. Since the sin started with the angels, or the devil...evil angels....then prey I ask the question, how do you hold these creatures responsible and how do you make them pay for thier sins since judgment has already been done?
Thus, the only thing we can do, is hold each person responsible and accountable for thier own acts. That being said, the principle is, if one is held to account then all are held to account. Therefore, the jews, the whites, the blacks, and everyone in-between were at one time or another, slaves.
Where one can only be truly free, when one is the slave of God the Almighty. Who taught humanity how to be free and promotes self governance.
Through wisdom, reason and knowledge, with hope, faith and love is the only way to achieve this self governance.
As was shown in the Bible, which is the basis of the constitution, and also seen in the constitution as man continues to mature, each human being therefore has free will, therefore the restriction of a man being a man, and a woman being a woman, shall not be infringed upon....either way. Thus, in my opinion, Jesus Christ was all those years ago, the first American!
Thus His teachings apply in all things today. But it took 2000 years of suffering for these true ideas to take hold.
That is my reply. Do with it as you wish.