God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible | The Forum at St. Bart's

[@BGCflyer]

...amazingly courageous to address issues that make us uncomfortable. This just testifies that God works through ALL people irregardless of our circumstances or status in live.

[@romualdgarcia9108]

Amen

[@Jd-808]

Starts at 6:30

[@BGCflyer]

...at 50:03 you said the Paul doesn't say that slavery is wrong...yet we read in 1 Timothy 1:9-10(NIV) "We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers-and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine" Notice Paul includes "slave traders" with all of these! If Paul condemns the slave trader, how do you think he feels about slavery? You can't include slave traders with the unholy and irreligious and still be "ok" with slavery. I know this is a complex issue, but you have to recognize that the Apostle Paul is addressing an important issue here.

[@romualdgarcia9108]

Absolutely!

[@moesypittounikos]

Didn't Nietzsche says slaves started Christianity?

[@BGCflyer]

...42:45 you said Jesus is OK with sex workers?...uhhh. That's not what Jesus said or taught. He forgave the woman caught in adultery and said, "go and sin no more", ironically, in the Gospel of Mark which you said you loved so much! We are to forgive. That doesn't mean we are OK with sin but it does mean that we shouldn't judge whether or not someone will be with God after this life just because they are doing things that seem to us as wrong. We are taught to love our neighbor as our selves. A Hebrew proverb elevated by Jesus! Loving your neighbor is NOT the same thing as being OK with your neighbor's sin.

[@romualdgarcia9108]

She strays far too far from the biblical text for me to accept her explanations as faithful to the Word - Although I recognise that it is interesting to reflect on the place of slavery in society at the time of the writing of the New Testament