[Vision2020] Wrong About the Bible: Slavery

Tony tonytime at clearwire.net
Sat Feb 3 08:45:15 PST 2007


Having argued with Andreas on so many occasions, it gives me an odd pause to 
find myself in wholehearted and enthusiastic agreement with him.  But after 
reading his retort to Ralph regarding the Bible, all I could think was, 
YEAH!  What he said!

OK Ralph, your turn.

-T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
To: "Ralph Nielsen" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
Cc: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>; "News of Christ Cult" 
<news.of.christ.cult at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wrong About the Bible: Slavery


> On 2/2/07, Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:
>> I appreciate the humanistic opposition to slavery in Rev. Davidson's
>> essay, but trying to use the Bible to condemn slavery is a lost
>> cause. No amount of theological wiggling or squirming can rescue him.
>> Nor can mistranslating or taking the biblical text out of context aid
>> his cause.
>>
>> The unpleasant truth is that the Bible supports slavery from cover to
>> cover.
>
> Ralph --
>
> You're making the same counterfactual assumption to trash the Bible
> that Doug does to support it: that the Bible is itself a unitary text.
> The argument that dozens of authors, recorders of stories, and
> redactors had the same intentions when writing over thousands of years
> is a non-starter; the argument that the Bible is complete and
> infallable is extrabiblical. Saying that the Bible 'supports' or 'does
> not support' something is nonsense: no book that contians both the
> axioms 'eye for an eye' and 'turn the other cheek' can be considered
> to have any internal textual unity.
>
> There are threads within the Bible that condone slavery (though not
> the form of intergenerational racial slavery we had in the United
> States), threads that are suspicious of it, and threads that condemn
> it. Contra Doug Wilson, the abolitionist movement was, at its core, a
> Christian movement -- and it found its textual support, as all
> Christian movements do, in the Bible.
>
> -- ACS
>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>> News of Christ Cult news.of.christ.cult at gmail.com
>> Fri Feb 2 07:47:07 PST 2007
>>
>>  http://www.joshualetter.org/slavery/theology.htm
>>
>> **Wrong About the Bible : A Response to Steve Wilkins
>> and Douglas Wilson's Doctrine of Slavery*
>> **
>> by Rev. Jack Davidson
>> Pastor, Cascade Presbyterian Church
>> Eugene, Oregon
>>
>> [text snipped]
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