Slavery and the Bible in America
How could people reading the same Bible end up on both sides of slavery?
Centered edition for believersSwitch to Honest Heretics (for skeptics)
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- Read it3 min
- The world behind the words4 min
- How it drifted5 min
- Honest objections3 min
- Measured against the center2 min
- A keeper1 min
- Reflect2 min
- Practice this week1 min
- Talk it over1 min
- A quiet moment1 min
This lesson opens the last part of the volume, about wrongs the church itself later admitted. The first is the hardest. For decades before the Civil War, respected American preachers taught from the pulpit that the Bible approved of slavery, and whole denominations split over it.
It's painful to hear, and it's meant to be. Churches have since said so themselves, in writing. This lesson doesn't condemn our grandparents' grandparents. It shows how good people misused the Bible, and measures that against what Jesus said. You don't need anyone's permission to do that.
Measured against the center
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