Re: How to Become a Christian, Version 1.01

From: Don Kirkman (donkirk_at_covad.net)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:57:37 -0700

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Carol T wrote in article
<9bff2a56.0409070441.1f12dee9@posting.google.com>:

>Mozz <joda@dagobah.net> wrote in message news:<aa8ij01oat8mj4r9ij7gmacoqv26mudt1f@4ax.com>...

>>>>>..> Slavery is still advocated in North America by some
>Reconstructionist
>> Christians and a few racist fringe groups within the Christian Identity movement. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<,

>Christ gives people the choice to address their conscious through
>knowing His saving grace on what to do about slavery. This problem is
>addressed too in the Old Testament, where God is dealing with the
>psychological emotions of men who have endured lifetimes of captivity
>themselves before leaving Egypt and are gradually learning of God's
>ways against the ways of man. Men are challenged to treat them as
>family, and then to let them free.

Presumably, considering the span of life back then, many of the adults
who left Egypt may not have survived the forty* years of wilderness
wandering.

* Another of those tricky things, since "forty" is commonly used as a
round number for "a lot" in the Bible, though translators aren't always
scrupulous about that, and some passages are ambiguous.

> "You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and
>the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing
>today. And if it happens that he says to you, 'I will not go away from
>you,' because he loves you and your house, since he prospers with you,
>then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door,
>and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you
>shall do likewise. It shall not seem hard to you when you send him
>away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant in
>serving you six years. Then the Lord your God will bless you in all
>that you do. " NKJ Deu 15:15-18

> You see, the Lord teaches the owners humility whilst He has still
>been dealing with their ingrained psychological needs for His
>strength, leadership, love, understanding, patience and so forth. If
>someone who has been fair and loving to a slave in God's way, then
>they will have been repaid more than double the price of that
>individual in loyalty alone. The slave will then be legally a free
>person (and will not have been in someone elses house), and through
>his services to God the owner will still be sought for spiritual
>wisdom and guidance. He will then be served freely forever.

>If you need to know what is advocated in Christianity, it is best to
>receive The Word of Christ through His Holy Spirit. God does not tell
>you to turn your back on the wisdom you know, but to become
>enlightened to His greater wisdom through Christ. To open up the
>bridgeway to Him, so that His children who seek forgiveness can
>recieve it through Christ.

The written word, accurately construed, is a worthwhile starting place. 

-- 
Don
donkirk@covad.net

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